The choice of IUCN regional red list criteria as the standard for setting favourable reference populations levels has been controversial. Why have they been chosen?
The red list criteria are the most widely accepted criteria today among the global conservation community. From the point of view of legislation it is desirable to harmonise as many systems as possible which is one administrative reason to favour this choice. However, the main reason is that these criteria are the result of a long term process among a global community of conservation biologists. They allow a species specific modelling approach which may be useful given access to population and species specific data when these data are available. In cases where such data are not available there is the possibility to use a general value for population size which is tried and tested for a range of species.
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