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Tropical deforestation. The collapse of fisheries. Unprecedented
levels of species extinction. Faced with the plethora of
gloom-and-doom headlines about the natural world, we might think
that environmental disaster is inevitable. But is there any good
news about the environment? Yes, there is, answers Andrew Balmford
in "Wild Hope", and he offers several powerful stories of
successful conservation to prove it. This tragedy is still
avoidable, and there are many reasons for hope if we find
inspiration in stories of effective environmental recovery. "Wild
Hope" is organized geographically, with each chapter taking readers
to extraordinary places to meet conservation's heroes and foot
soldiers - and to discover the new ideas they are generating about
how to make conservation work on our hungry and crowded planet. The
journey starts in the floodplains of Assam, where dedicated rangers
and exceptionally tolerant villagers have together helped bring
Indian rhinos back from the brink of extinction. In the pine
forests of the Carolinas, we learn why plantation owners came to
resent rare woodpeckers - and what persuaded them to change their
minds. In South Africa, Balmford investigates how invading alien
plants have been drinking the country dry, and how the Southern
Hemisphere's biggest conservation program is now simultaneously
restoring the rivers, saving species, and creating tens of
thousands of jobs. The conservation problems Balmford encounters
are as diverse as the people and their actions, but together they
offer common themes and specific lessons on how to win the battle
of conservation - and the one essential ingredient, Balmford shows,
is most definitely hope. "Wild Hope" is a clear-eyed view of the
difficulties and challenges of conservation, offering innovative
solutions and powerful stories. A global tour of people and
programs working for the planet, "Wild Hope" is an emboldening
green journey.
Wild Hope takes readers to extraordinary places to meet
conservation's heroes and foot soldiers - and to discover the new
ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work on
our hungry and crowded planet. The journey starts in the
floodplains of Assam, where dedicated rangers and exceptionally
tolerant villagers have together helped bring Indian rhinos back
from the brink of extinction. In the pine forests of the Carolinas,
we learn why plantation owners came to resent rare woodpeckers-and
what persuaded them to change their minds. In South Africa, Andrew
Balmford investigates how invading alien plants have been drinking
the country dry, and how the Southern Hemisphere's biggest
conservation program is now simultaneously restoring the rivers,
saving species, and creating tens of thousands of jobs. The
conservation problems Balmford encounters are as diverse as the
people and their actions, but together they offer common themes and
specific lessons on how to win the battle of conservation-and the
one essential ingredient, Balmford shows, is most definitely hope.
As evidence for the rapid loss of biological diversity strengthens, there is widespread recognition of the need to identify priorities and techniques for conservation actions that will reverse the trend. Much progress has been made in the development of quantitative methods for identifying priority areas based on what we know about species distributions, but we must now build an understanding of biological processes into conservation planning. Here, using studies at global to local scales, contributors consider how conservation planners can deal with the dynamic processes of species and their interactions with their environment in a changing world, where human impacts will continue to affect the environment in unprecedented ways. This book will be a source of inspiration for postgraduates, researchers and professionals in conservation biology, wildlife management, and ecology.
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