History
The flagship species concept appears have become popular around the mid 1980’s within the debate on how to prioritise species for conservation. The first widely available references to use the flagship concept applied it to both neotropical primates and African elephants and rhinos, in the typical mammal centric approach that still dominates how the concept is used today
The use of the concept has been largely dominated by large bodied species, especially mammals, although species from other taxonomic groups have occasionally been used
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