Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation by Wuerthner, George
Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation by Wuerthner, George

Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife. These...
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Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation by Wuerthner, George

Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

CHF 90.32
Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation by Wuerthner, George

Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation

CHF 90.32
Author: George Wuerthner
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 pass . 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. Using case studies from around the globe, they present evidence 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.

Author: George Wuerthner
Publisher: Foundations for Deep Ecology 3
Published: 02/19/2015
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.70w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781610915489


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Foreword 02/26/2015
Choice 08/01/2015

About the Author
George Wuerthner is the Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, where he does research and writes about environmental issues. For many years he was a full-time freelance photographer and writer and has published thirty-eight books on natural history, conservation history, ecology, and environmental issues. Eileen Crist teaches at Virginia Tech in the Department of Science and Technology in Society, where she is advisor for the undergraduate program Humanities, Science, and Environment. She is author of Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and coeditor of Gaia in Turmoil: Climate Change, Biodepletion, and Earth Ethics in an Age of Crisis. Tom Butler, a Vermont-based conservation activist and writer, is the board president of the Northeast Wilderness Trust and the former longtime editor of Wild Earth journal. His books include Wildlands Philanthropy, Plundering Appalachia, and ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.



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