Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond.

Worldwide many crop varieties are considered seriously threatened while management strategies are still lacking. Goals and indicators relevant to the conservation of agrobiodiversity also remain to be developed. Here we present the results of three expert workshops in Peru designed to prioritise for conservation crops with high infra-specific diversity, along with the establishment of in-situ on-farm conservation goals and indicators.

Indices for assessment and monitoring of large mammals within an adaptive management framework.

Many development projects intended to exploit natural resources are occurring in fragile ecosystems, and therefore the need for sound biodiversity assessment and monitoring programs is growing. Large mammals are important components of these fragile ecosystems, yet there are few strategies that attempt to assess and monitor entire large mammal communities in relation to development projects. We propose the use of two indices applied within a framework of adaptive management.