A New Approach to Conservation : The Importance of the Individual through Wildlife Rehabilitation
by
Gill Aitken
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1138618705
ISBN-13
9781138618701
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 23rd, 2018
Print length
218 Pages
Weight
346 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.20 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Conservation of the environment
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This book examines the concepts of 'rarity' and 'nativity' respectively, in order to determine their proper place in the conservation rationale. It addresses the potential tension between the call for wildness and the intensive management characteristic of wildlife rehabilitation practice.
Conservationists assume a set of underlying values which guide their decision-making and action. The safeguarding or promotion of biodiversity, it is believed, is the means by which nature is best protected. This book examines - and challenges - these general conservation assumptions. While reinforcing the need to halt extinction and value biodiversity, it shows that biodiversity needs to be more clearly understood, perhaps being replaced by the notion of ''wildness''. It examines how biodiversity is a holistic term, and how individual species need to be assessed and their own contribution to ''wildness'' has to be recognized. The book proposes a new way of conservation - one which makes more room for neglected, rather than endangered or rare species. It also asserts that ''wildness'' is not incompatible with certain kinds of human intervention.
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