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Considerations of rarity lead almost ineluctably to the topic of conservation. Indeed, it seems a popular belief that the two issues are inseparable. Previous chapters should have established beyond any doubt that this is not so. There are many questions about rarity which are of interest and yet have little directly to do with conservation. Nonetheless, it would be wrong to ignore this, the most important of the applied dimensions to the study of rarity.
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. R. Browning (1855)
... there is unfortunately no precedent for 5 billion human beings suddenly sharing an enlightened vision of the future. N. R. Flesness(1992)
There are no hopeless cases, only people without hope and expensive cases. M. E. Soulé(1987)
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Gaston, K.J. (1994). Conservation and rarity. In: Rarity. Population and Community Biology Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0701-3_7
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