A growing number of researchers and practitioners believe that solutions to prevent further loss and restore global biodiversity (most especially bird species) are about aligning our thinking with thought processes used in medicine, where rigorous, objective analysis of evidence has contributed to widespread improvements in medical outcomes.
What role will effective bird monitoring through collection of high quality evidences and data play in achieving global bird conservation outcome ?
Bird monitoring is a very effective tool in conservation. Monitoring of threatened populations is essential to help conservation decision-making to prevent further declines and, ultimately, extinction plus monitoring of common species can be important in terms of understanding broader environmental impacts we may be having (and also to give early warning of species' declines). Applying rigorous objective analysis is important but sometimes decisions have to be made with poor quality data. If we were monitoring a rare species that is difficult to detect we may end up with only fragmentary data but we may still be expected to make recommendations for management. Hence, we may aspire to having high quality data but we may not always be able to collect it. Do we delay decision-making until such a time as we have such data?
Robust, standardised monitoring data over a number of years is a good start. Check out the attached report for an example 👍👍
Thanks you sir for the response Duncan McCollin and Conor Brian Quinn
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