Conservation and rarity

Abstract

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.