A generation or two ago, conservation biologists relied on a similar fallacy to cultivate the sympathies of the public.

They are, he adds, 'a conservation biologist's nightmare'.

However, for conservation biologists working to avoid disrupting the balance between humans and their natural surroundings, there are some instructive parallels.

My brief paddles were hardly a proper study but local conservation biologists have completed a survey of marine life health.

This generalization spurred the growth of landscape ecology by providing conservation biologists a new tool to assess how habitat fragmentation affects population viability.