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A New Approach to Conservation: The Importance of the Individual through Wildlife Rehabilitation - Hardcover

Aitken, Gill

 
9780815387398: A New Approach to Conservation: The Importance of the Individual through Wildlife Rehabilitation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0815387393 ISBN 13: 9780815387398
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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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Gill Aitken

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0815387393
ISBN 13 
9780815387398
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
218