This paper attempts to demonstrate how "diversity theory" can be applied to the analysis of real-world conservation policies. The specific example chosen to serve as a paradigm concern s preservation priorities among the fifteen species of cranes living w ild throughout the world. The example is sufficiently actual to show how diversity theory can be used operationally to frame certain critical conservation questions and to guide us toward answers by providing informative quantitative indicators of what to protect. At the same time, the cranes example is rich enough that it illustrates nicely some broad general principles about the economics of diversity preservation. Copyright 1993, the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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