Assisted colonization is a techno-fix

In this letter, authors agree with the tenet of the arguement of Ricciardi and Simberloff (2009) that the attention and credibility given to such schemes is worrying and that is might send an overly optimistic mesage about assisted colonization to policymakers and the public. Here we propose three important additional considerations which lend further support to the view that widespread implementation of assisted colonization will be inappropriate, especially when the broader social-ecological context of threatened species conservation is taken into account.