Actions to conserve biodiversity
We have summarised evidence from the scientific literature about the effects of actions to conserve wildlife and ecosystems.
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Provide artificial nesting sites for wildfowl using artificial/floating islands Action Link |
Likely to be beneficial | 3 |
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Provide nesting habitat for birds that is safe from extreme weather Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 3 |
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Foster eggs or chicks of waders with wild conspecifics Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 3 |
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Provide supplementary food for rails and coots to increase reproductive success Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Provide supplementary food for vultures to increase reproductive success Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Weight baits or lines to reduce longline bycatch of seabirds Action Link |
Likely to be beneficial | 4 |
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Provide supplementary food through the establishment of food populations Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Use perches to increase foraging success Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Use prescribed burning on deciduous forests Action Link |
Likely to be ineffective or harmful | 4 |
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Use captive breeding to increase or maintain populations of bustards Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Mow or cut semi-natural grasslands/pastures Action Link |
Trade-off between benefit and harms | 4 |
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Use captive breeding to increase or maintain populations of storks and ibises Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Treat wetlands with herbicide Action Link |
Likely to be ineffective or harmful | 4 |
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Fertilize artificial grasslands Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Artificially incubate and hand-rear waders in captivity Action Link |
Likely to be beneficial | 4 |
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Plough habitats Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Artificially incubate and hand-rear parrots in captivity Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Artificially incubate and hand-rear songbirds in captivity Action Link |
Likely to be beneficial | 4 |
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Restore or create shrubland Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Release captive-bred individuals into the wild to restore or augment wild populations of bustards Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Clip birds’ wings on release Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Control predators not on islands for waders Action Link |
Awaiting assessment | 4 |
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Physically protect nests with individual exclosures/barriers or provide shelters for chicks of ground nesting seabirds Action Link |
Likely to be beneficial | 4 |
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Can nest protection increase nest abandonment? Action Link |
Evidence not assessed | 4 |
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Reduce inter-specific competition for nest sites of woodpeckers by removing competitor species Action Link |
Unknown effectiveness (limited evidence) | 4 |
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Bird Conservation - Published 2013
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What are 'Individual studies' and 'Actions'?
Individual studies
An individual study is a summary of a specific scientific study, usually taken from a scientific journal, but also from other resources such as reports. It tells you the background context, the action(s) taken and their consequences.
If you want more detail please look at the original reference.
Actions
Each action page focuses on a particular action you could take to benefit wildlife or ecosystems.
It contains brief (150-200 word) descriptions of relevant studies (context, action(s) taken and their consequences) and one or more key messages.
Key messages show the extent and main conclusions of the available evidence. Using links within key messages, you can look at the paragraphs describing each study to get more detail. Each paragraph allows you to assess the quality of the evidence and how relevant it is to your situation.
Where we found no evidence, we have been unable to assess whether or not an intervention is effective or has any harmful impacts.