Conservation action should come before publication

Piero Genovesi; Lucilla Carnevali; Benjamin D Hoffmann; Andrea Monaco; Helen E Roy; Daniel Simberloff

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.054

Conservation action should come before publication

Curr Biol. 2024 Jan 22;34(2):R49-R50. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.054.

Authors

Piero Genovesi¹, Lucilla Carnevali², Benjamin D Hoffmann³, Andrea Monaco², Helen E Roy⁴, Daniel Simberloff⁵

Affiliations

¹ Wildlife Service, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research - ISPRA, Rome 00144, Italy; Chair IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group, Rome 00144, Italy. Electronic address: piero.genovesi@isprambiente.it.
² Wildlife Service, Institute for Environmental Protection and Research - ISPRA, Rome 00144, Italy.
³ CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia.
⁴ Center for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford OX10 8BB, UK.
⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.

PMID: 38262355
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.11.054

Abstract

With regard to the recent discovery of the red imported fire ant in Sicily (Menchetti et al. 2023), Genovesi et al. highlight the delay in communicating the observation and call on the scientific communities, scientific journals, and local authorities to ensure that new invasive alien species records are immediately reported for enhancing action.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Ants*
Group Processes
Introduced Species
Sicily