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Protecting the Wild - Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation (Paperback)
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Protecting the Wild - Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation (Paperback)
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Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of
conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These parks and
reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those
places where human activities, technologies, and developments
prevail. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing
number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passe.
Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for
human use--working landscapes--and abandon the goal of preventing
human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services
to support people. If such arguments take hold, we risk losing
support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped
nature.
"Protecting the Wild" offers a spirited argument for the robust
protection of the natural world. In it, experts from five
continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other
reserves are an indispensable--albeit insufficient--means to
sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes,
and evolutionary potential. Using case studies from around the
globe, they present evidence that terrestrial and marine protected
areas are crucial for biodiversity and human well-being alike,
vital to countering anthropogenic extinctions and climate
change.
A companion volume to "Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication
of Earth," "Protecting the Wild" provides a necessary addition to
the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called
Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers,
and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land
trusts to international NGOs.
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