International agreements such as the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have
committed to conserve, and sustainably and equitably use, biodiversity. The CBD is a vital …

Innumerable approaches to analyse genetic data are now available to guide conservation,
ecological and agricultural projects. However, streamlined and accessible tools are needed …

Global conservation policy and action have largely neglected protecting and monitoring
genetic diversity—one of the three main pillars of biodiversity. Genetic diversity (diversity …

The acceleration of climate change and concomitant anthropogenic impacts on the natural
world have led to claims from the scientific community that the Earth is currently …

Genomic studies of endangered species have primarily focused on describing diversity
patterns and resolving phylogenetic relationships, with the overarching goal of informing …

The kākāpō is a critically endangered, intensively managed, long-lived nocturnal parrot
endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. We generated and analysed whole-genome sequence …

Over the past 50 years conservation genetics has developed a substantive toolbox to inform
species management. One of the most long‐standing tools available to manage genetics …

Conservation breeding programs are increasingly used as recovery actions for wild animals;
bringing founders into captivity to rear captive populations for future reintroduction into the …

This paper asks the question: can genomic information be used to recover a species that is
already on the pathway to extinction due to genetic swamping from a related and more …

Threatened species are frequently patchily distributed across small wild populations, ex situ
populations managed with varying levels of intensity and reintroduced populations. Best …