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9781610915489

Protecting the Wild

Parks and Wilderness, the Foundation for Conservation
  • ISBN-13: 9781610915489
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: FOUNDATIONS FOR DEEP ECOLOGY 3
  • Edited by George Wuerthner, Edited by Eileen Crist, Edited by Tom Butler
  • Price: AUD $94.99
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  • Local release date: 16/04/2015
  • Format: Paperback 392 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Earth sciences [RB]
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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 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. 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.

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Foreword - John Terborgh

Introduction: Protected Areas and the Long Arc Toward Justice - Tom Butler

Part One: Bold Thinking About Protecting the Wild

Nature Needs (at least) Half: A Necessary New Agenda for Protected Areas - Harvey Locke

Bolder Thinking for Conservation - Reed F. Noss, Andrew P. Dobson, Robert Baldwin, Paul Beier, Cory R. Davis, Dominick A. DellaSala, John Francis, Harvey Locke, Katarzyna Nowak, Roel Lopez, Conrad Reining, Stephen C. Trombulak, and Gary Tabor

Caring for People and Valuing Forests in Africa - Jane Goodall

What Is the Future of Conservation? - Daniel F. Doak, Victoria J. Bakker, Bruce Evan Goldstein, and Benjamin Hale

Fool's Gold in the Catskill Mountains: Thinking Critically about the Ecosystem Services Paradigm - Douglas J. McCauley

Parks, People, and Perspectives: Historicizing Conservation in Latin America - Emily Wakild

The Fight for Wilderness Preservation in the Pacific Northwest - Brock Evans

Of Tigers and Humans: The Question of Democratic Deliberation and Biodiversity Conservation - Helen Kopnina

Protected Areas Are Necessary for Conservation - Anthony R. E. Sinclair

Part Two: Rewilding Earth, Rewilding Ourselves

I Walk in the World to Love It - Eileen Crist

Rewilding Europe - Christof Schenck

The British Thermopylae and the Return of the Lynx - George Monbiot

Letting It Be on a Continental Scale: Some Thoughts on Rewilding - John Davis

Yellowstone to Yukon: Global Conservation Innovations Through the Years - Harvey Locke and Karsten Heuer

Yellowstone as Model for the World - George Wuerthner

Rewilding Our Hearts: Making a Personal Commitment to Animals and Their Homes - Marc Bekoff

The Humbling Power of Wilderness - Spencer R. Phillips

Part Three: Protected Areas: The Foundation for Conservation

Conservation in the African Anthropocene - Tim Caro

The Silent Killer: Habitat Loss and the Role of African Protected Areas to Conserve Biodiversity - Kathleen H. Fitzgerald

Another Inconvenient Truth: The Failure of Enforcement Systems to Save Charismatic Species - Elizabeth L. Bennett

America Needs More National Parks - Michael J. Kellett

A New Era of Protected Areas for the Great Plains - Curtis H. Freese

Human Impact on Protected Areas of the Peruvian Amazon - Marc J. Dourojeanni

Protected Areas in Chilean Patagonia - Carlos Cuevas

Rewilding the Carpathians: A Present-Day Opportunity - Barbara and Christoph Promberger

Protecting the Wild Nature and Biodiversity of the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion - Mikhail Paltsyn

The Crucial Importance of Protected Areas to Conserving Mongolia's Natural Heritage - Richard P. Reading, Ganchimeg Wingard, Tuvdendorj Selenge, and Sukh Amgalanbaatar

Parks: The Best Option for Wildlife Protection in Australia - Martin Taylor

Afterword - Douglas R. Tompkins

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Notes

Index

About Island Press

Board of Directors

"Everything we have, need, use, or want comes from nature. Protecting the Wild is a powerful and urgent reminder that we must enlarge protected areas and connect them, as well as manage the surrounding landscape for conservation, to assure the survival of all forms of life, our own included, on this beautiful planet."
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