[Taxacom] Looking for success conservation stories based on museum collections

[Paolo G. Albano]

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for success conservation stories based on museum collections.
I am aware that there are many studies of conservation relevance based 
on them, but here I am looking for something that eventually translated 
into a real successful conservation result.

It could be at any scale (a single protected area or species to global).

An example is the study by Ratcliffe in the 1960s on the thinning of 
bird of prey eggs which contributed to the phasing out of DDT. The study 
was largely based on museum collections.

Can you help me finding more such cases? Or you may suggest me where to 
dig for more information?

Apologies for crossposting.
Thank you and best regards,
Paolo



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Dr. Paolo G. ALBANO, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, Stazione Zoologica Anton 
Dohrn, Naples, Italy Research Associate, Department of Paleontology, 
University of Vienna, Austria E-mail: pgalbano at gmail.com 
<mailto:pgalbano at gmail.com>; Skype: pg.albano Twitter: @pg_albano; 
Google Scholar <http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=DZ4zNfQAAAAJ>

NEW Native biodiversity collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean 
<https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2469> open 
access Full publication list including links to pdfs and journal 
webpages here 
<https://homepage.univie.ac.at/paolo.albano/publication_list.html> 
Lessepsian migration project: Historical ecology of Lessepsian migration 
<http://www.univie.ac.at/lessepsian/index.html> Personal web-site: 
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/paolo.albano/ 
<http://homepage.univie.ac.at/paolo.albano/>