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Save the whales? Sure, but how many?

In a new paper appearing in the journal Bioscience, the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society examines the current hodgepodge of population target levels (PTLs) being used by wildlife managers, and proposes a simpler, four-tiered system to measure conservation success.

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