Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook592 pages8 hours
Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
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 argumfor 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 presevidence 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.
Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argumfor 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 presevidence 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.
Unavailable
Related to Protecting the Wild
Related ebooks
Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation The Fragmented Forest: Island Biogeography Theory and the Preservation of Biotic Diversity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDrafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLandscape Linkages and Biodiversity Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Biodiversity and the Law Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLarge Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForest Patches in Tropical Landscapes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPlace of the Wild: A Wildlands Anthology Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLarge Mammal Restoration: Ecological And Sociological Challenges In The 21St Century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPeople and Predators: From Conflict To Coexistence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghost Bears: Exploring The Biodiversity Crisis Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Applying Nature's Design: Corridors as a Strategy for Biodiversity Conservation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Salvage Logging and Its Ecological Consequences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Science of Conservation Planning: Habitat Conservation Under The Endangered Species Act Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNature's Burdens: Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEx Situ Plant Conservation: Supporting Species Survival In The Wild Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRace to Save the Tropics: Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConservation by Proxy: Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMarine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting And Restoring Biodiversity Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsKeeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species: Biological, Social, and Economic Considerations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCorridor Ecology, Second Edition: Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConservation Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOld Fields: Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nature in Fragments: The Legacy of Sprawl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProactive Strategies for Protecting Species: Pre-Listing Conservation and the Endangered Species Act Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsForest Conservation in the Anthropocene: Science, Policy, and Practice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Earth Sciences For You
Michigan Rocks & Minerals: A Field Guide to the Great Lake State Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRocks and Minerals of The World: Geology for Kids - Minerology and Sedimentology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Geography For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Geology: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rockhounding & Prospecting: Upper Midwest: How to Find Gold, Copper, Agates, Thomsonite, and Other Favorites Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Superior Rocks & Minerals Field Guide Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPatterns in Nature: Why the Natural World Looks the Way It Does Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Rockhounding for Beginners: Your Comprehensive Guide to Finding and Collecting Precious Minerals, Gems, Geodes, & More Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow to Make Hand-Drawn Maps: A Creative Guide with Tips, Tricks, and Projects Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nuclear War Survival Skills: Lifesaving Nuclear Facts and Self-Help Instructions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Answers to Questions You've Never Asked: Explaining the 'What If' in Science, Geography and the Absurd Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Weather For Dummies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Bruce H. Lipton's The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Herbalism and Alchemy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaying the Land Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5South: Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Being Human: Life Lessons from the Frontiers of Science (Transcript) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pocket Guide to Prepping Supplies: More Than 200 Items You Can?t Be Without Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Foraging for Survival: Edible Wild Plants of North America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch's Yearbook: Spells, Stones, Tools and Rituals for a Year of Modern Magic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Fire Story: A Graphic Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jellyfish: A Natural History Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related podcast episodes
Bonus Episode! Out There Podcast: Conservation 2.0 0% found this document usefulThe Sunday Story: How to Save the Everglades 0% found this document usefulAdapting Conservation to Climate Change at WWF: Mainstreaming Climate Adaptation 0% found this document usefulThe Bravely Curious Podcast: Protecting 0% found this document useful21. How can we better understand environmental change? (Timm Hoffman) 0% found this document usefulS3E28: Mutualism: Cooperation, not Competition in Nature—w/ Kristin Ohlson, author of Sweet in Tooth and Claw 0% found this document usefulS3E5: The roots of indigenous agriculture—w/ Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson of the documentary Inhabitants 0% found this document usefulGlobal "Weirding" and Climate Conversations 0% found this document usefulThought Snacks | Why don't we protect endangered ecosystems like we do species? 0% found this document useful114. Green Crabs 0% found this document usefulBrood X Emerges!, Cicada Cuisine, Rescuing the Planet, and more 0% found this document useful
Related articles
The Case For Nature New InternationalistArticle
The Case For Nature
Dec 17, 2020
9 min readWhy Biodiversity Matters Cottage LifeArticle
Why Biodiversity Matters
Mar 30, 2023
6 min readNature Doesn’t Care Where a Species Is From The AtlanticArticle
Nature Doesn’t Care Where a Species Is From
Feb 2, 2024
6 min readSave Half The World Australian GeographicArticle
Save Half The World
Dec 30, 2019
2 min readLife, Loss And Hope BBC Countryfile MagazineArticle
Life, Loss And Hope
Jun 2, 2022
4 min readFor The Birds: Can Humans Turn Empathy Into Solutions? The Christian Science MonitorArticle
For The Birds: Can Humans Turn Empathy Into Solutions?
Sep 19, 2019
U.S. and Canadian bird populations have declined by 3 billion since 1970, according to a new study in Science.
4 min readHolistic Management Solutions PRIVATE GAME WILDLIFE RANCHINGArticle
Holistic Management Solutions
Jul 31, 2020
9 min readThe Soil Solution: One Reason to be Optimistic About the Environment is Right Beneath Our Feet Union of Concerned ScientistsArticle
The Soil Solution: One Reason to be Optimistic About the Environment is Right Beneath Our Feet
Aug 22, 2017
4 min readNow Ambition Is Going Truly Wild Independent on SaturdayArticle
Now Ambition Is Going Truly Wild
Apr 24, 2021
3 min readBack To Nature Project CalmArticle
Back To Nature
Jan 30, 2020
5 min readAge of Disability Orion MagazineArticle
Age of Disability
Nov 25, 2021
16 min readTrees Are Overrated The AtlanticArticle
Trees Are Overrated
Jul 25, 2022
21 min readConservation Is An Ecosystem High Country NewsArticle
Conservation Is An Ecosystem
Nov 1, 2022
IN JUNE 1934, AS GRITTY CLOUDS of dust boiled up from the Great Plains and darkened skies across the continent, University of Wisconsin professor Aldo Leopold addressed a crowd at the university’s new arboretum. Leopold was deeply disturbed by what w
1 min readThe Sixth Mass Extinction Muse: The magazine of science, culture, and smart laughs for kids and childrenArticle
The Sixth Mass Extinction
Sep 1, 2022
4 min readRunning For The Hills Guardian WeeklyArticle
Running For The Hills
Jun 2, 2023
5 min readRewilding Is Often Criticised – But It’s Winning The Great OutdoorsArticle
Rewilding Is Often Criticised – But It’s Winning
Apr 14, 2023
3 min readTHE Grapevine Good Organic GardeningArticle
THE Grapevine
Jun 9, 2021
3 min readSlow And Steady, The American Prairies Grow The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Slow And Steady, The American Prairies Grow
Feb 18, 2019
In the last three decades, grassland conservationists and scientists have been playing the long game, and their efforts are paying off.
4 min readMy 3 Greatest Revelations NautilusArticle
My 3 Greatest Revelations
Oct 17, 2023
4 min readManagement For Survival Sporting RifleArticle
Management For Survival
Jan 9, 2020
4 min readThe Serengeti Rules Sporting RifleArticle
The Serengeti Rules
Jan 9, 2020
2 min readFinding Hope For The Future In A Complicated Past The Christian Science MonitorArticle
Finding Hope For The Future In A Complicated Past
Feb 24, 2022
2 min readMore Chicks, Less Rhetoric The FieldArticle
More Chicks, Less Rhetoric
Mar 12, 2020
5 min readRewilding The UK, Restoring Nature, Repairing The World Vegan Life MagazineArticle
Rewilding The UK, Restoring Nature, Repairing The World
May 19, 2022
5 min readWe Think The Forest Is Out There, But It’s Inside Us Lampoon Magazine InternationalArticle
We Think The Forest Is Out There, But It’s Inside Us
Oct 15, 2020
Milano July 2020 not an ontological relativism but rather promoting a sort of double simultaneous movement Stefano Boeri Centennial scientist James Lovelock recounts his insight into Gaia as he investigates the possibility of a human species tra
6 min readSuburban Refuge: Designing For Biodiversity In Our Cities Landscape Architecture AustraliaArticle
Suburban Refuge: Designing For Biodiversity In Our Cities
Jul 30, 2023
5 min readOF BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND HUNTING Part 1: Biodiversity and Conservation SA Hunter/JagterArticle
OF BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND HUNTING Part 1: Biodiversity and Conservation
Aug 14, 2023
This is the first of a two-part article about the role of hunting in conservation activities. There are so many misconceptions about these topics that I hope to dispel in this series. Part 1 will focus on how conservation biologists perceive the conc
8 min readGillian Burke BBC Wildlife MagazineArticle
Gillian Burke
Jun 2, 2022
2 min readEcologists Can’t Beat Invasive Species, So They’re Joining Them NautilusArticle
Ecologists Can’t Beat Invasive Species, So They’re Joining Them
Mar 14, 2016
4 min readRecovering Lost Caribbean Bats Would Take 8M Years FuturityArticle
Recovering Lost Caribbean Bats Would Take 8M Years
Mar 28, 2017
More than half of mammal species went extinct after human colonization in the Caribbean alone. Can nature restore the numbers of species on islands to levels that existed before human arrival—and, if so—how long would it take for nature to regain thi
1 min read
Reviews for Protecting the Wild
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews