Quantifying the contribution of actions to reduce species extinction risk using ‘STAR’

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• Louise Mair, Newcastle University
• Thursday 22 January 2026, 13:00-14:00
• Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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Meeting global species conservation targets requires tools and metrics that allow actors from across society to identify their potential contributions to species conservation, set science-based targets, and measure progress towards those targets. To meet this need, I worked with IUCN and a large team of international scientists to develop the Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (STAR) metric. STAR quantifies the contributions that abating threats and restoring habitat in specific places offer towards reducing species extinction risk. STAR is spatially explicit, scalable and comparable across sites, and is now available to businesses and policy makers for use in decision making. In this presentation, I will introduce the STAR conceptual framework, and provide diverse examples of how STAR has been applied in scientific and practical contexts. I will share current development of the metric as we work towards achieving uptake and impact, to ultimately support delivery of global conservation targets.

This talk is part of the Zoology Departmental Seminar Series series.

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