Protecting the Wild [electronic resource] : Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation /
Wuerthner, George.editor.
Crist, Eileen.editor.
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 passé. 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. 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.
Cover; Title Page ; Copyright ; Deducation ; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; [ONE]: BOLD THINKING ABOUT PROTECTING THE WILD; Nature Needs (at least) Half: A Necessary New Agenda for Protected Areas; The first global conservation targets for protected areas: 10 or 12 percent; A global target emerges from the Convention on Biological Diversity; What scientific analysis suggests protected area targets ought to be; The meaning of protected area; Protecting half of the Earth's lands and waters; Connectivity among protected areas; Nature on the other half
Self-censorship in the conservation community when it comes to targetsProtecting at least half of the Earth is a viable goal; A philosophical moment for the protected areas movement; Bolder Thinking for Conservation; Set targets designed to achieve goals; Protect at least 50 percent globally; Maintain or restore connectivity across large landscapes; Focus attention on the greatest threat; Demonstrate the value of nature to humans; Popularize the idea that conservation can be achieved; Reasonable targets; Caring for People and Valuing Forests in Africa; What Is the Future of Conservation?
Shaking up the motives and practices of conservationCentral premises of the NCS argument; What's wrong with these claims and remedies?; Conclusions; Fool's Gold in the Catskill Mountains: Thinking Critically about the Ecosystem Services Paradigm; Parks, People, and Perspectives: Historicizing Conservation in Latin America; An academic context for challenging conservation; Examples from below; Conclusions; The Fight for Wilderness Preservation in the Pacific Northwest; Of Tigers and Humans:The Question of Democratic Deliberation and Biodiversity Conservation; Tiger conservation
Efficacy of conservationEnvironmental justice; Democracy and ethics; Conclusion; Protected Areas Are Necessary for Conservation; [TWO]: REWILDING EARTH, REWILDING OURSELVES; I Walk in the World to Love It; Rewilding Europe; From wilderness to plantation; Green power and conserved cultivation; Biodiversity as justification for conserved cultivation; The return toward wilderness; Bottom-up; Top-down; Why wild?; The British Thermopylae and the Return of the Lynx; Letting It Be on a Continental Scale: Some Thoughts on Rewilding; Unbuild it, and they will come
Yellowstone to Yukon: Global Conservation Innovations Through the YearsPioneering conservation; Conservation near people; Conservation biology shifts the scale; The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative; Inspiring hope for conservation around the world; Yellowstone as Model for the World; Critique of the Yellowstone model; Locals almost always oppose parks; Human-free zones?; The human influence; Yellowstone's real value-wildlife preserve; Spare the vandalism of improvement; Greater ecosystem; Rewilding Our Hearts: Making a Personal Commitment to Animals and Their Homes
Compassionate conservation: The lives of individual animals matter
Includes index.
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 passé. 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. 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.
Nature conservation.
Nature Conservation.