Conservation in the Anthropocene: Beyond Solitude and Fragility
Format:
Website
Publication Date:
2012/01//
Sources ID:
81501
Collection:
Anthropocene and the Environmental Future
Visibility:
Public (group default)
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In answering these questions, conservation cannot promise a return to pristine, prehuman landscapes. Humankind has already profoundly transformed the planet and will continue to do so.6 What conservation could promise instead is a new vision of a planet in which nature -- forests, wetlands, diverse species, and other ancient ecosystems -- exists amid a wide variety of modern, human landscapes. For this to happen, conservationists will have to jettison their idealized notions of nature, parks, and wilderness -- ideas that have never been supported by good conservation science -- and forge a more optimistic, human-friendly vision.