Restoring faith in conservation action: Maintaining wild genetic diversity through the Tasmanian devil insurance program

KA Farquharson, EA McLennan, Y Cheng, L Alexander… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Conservation breeding programs aim to maintain 90% wild genetic diversity, but rarely
assess functional diversity. Here, we compare both genome-wide and functional diversity (in …

The persistence of the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah relies upon urgent connectivity protection: a landscape genetics perspective

L Khalatbari, R Godinho, H Abolghasemi, E Hakimi… - Conservation …, 2023 - Springer
Decreasing genetic diversity, gene flow rates and population connectivity can increase
inbreeding rates and extinction risks. Asiatic cheetah is a critically endangered mammal with …

Use of ex situ management not necessarily a last resort: reply to Khalatbari et al. 2021.

MS Farhadinia, PJ Johnson… - Conservation …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
We strongly agree with Khalatbari et al. that" in situ conservation should remain the primary
focus of species conservation." Khalatbari et al. also believe we were inconsistent in the …