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Author : Wildlands Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D01476345L
Author : Dave Foreman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015060079434
In Rewilding North America, Dave Foreman takes on arguably the biggest ecological threat of our time: the global extinction crisis. He not only explains the problem in clear and powerful terms, but also offers a bold, hopeful, scientifically credible, and practically achievable solution. Foreman begins by setting out the specific evidence that a mass extinction is happening and analyzes how humans are causing it. Adapting Aldo Leopold's idea of ecological wounds, he details human impacts on species survival in seven categories, including direct killing, habitat loss and fragmentation, exotic species, and climate change. Foreman describes recent discoveries in conservation biology that call for wildlands networks instead of isolated protected areas, and, reviewing the history of protected areas, shows how wildlands networks are a logical next step for the conservation movement. The final section describes specific approaches for designing such networks (based on the work of the Wildlands Project, an organization Foreman helped to found) and offers concrete and workable reforms for establishing them. The author closes with an inspiring and empowering call to action for scientists and activists alike. Rewilding North America offers both a vision and a strategy for reconnecting, restoring, and rewilding the North American continent, and is an essential guidebook for anyone concerned with the future of life on earth.
Author : Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project,Wildlands Project,Denver Zoo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089478451
World-renowned for their striking beauty and high mountain topography, the Southern Rockies are one of North America's gems. The Southern Rockies Ecoregion contains a diversity of life. From alpine tundra to ponderosa pine forests and sagebrush grasslands, over 500 vertebrate species find their home in the Southern Rockies as well as a rich variety of plants and invertebrates including over 270 species of butterflies and 5,200 species of moths. It is able to obtain this abundance partially because of its continuous stretches of wild, remote and undeveloped lands. And yet, this biodiversity is threatened, as are many wild places in North America, due to human expansion and development: native species have been extirpated; old growth forests logged, wild and powerful rivers dammed and polluted, and land degraded. The Southern Rockies Wildlands Network Vision calls for ecological restoration that is based on healing these ecological wounds: the Vision identifies these wounds to the land and then considers anthropogenic causes for each, addressing not only the symptoms and the disease, but also the root cause(s) of the illness. The injuries to the Southern Rockies that have been identified by the Vision include: * Loss and Decline of Native Species * Loss and Degradation of Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems * Loss and Alteration of Natural Processes * Fragmentation of Wildlife Habitat * Invasion of Exotic Species * Pollution and Climate Change The current state of the Southern Rockies indicates that conservation planning and work is imperative. This Vision is a comprehensive look into that work, which is based in rewilding. It provides six goals and tangible implantation tactics relating to those goals in order to make the Vision a reality. These goals include protecting and recovering native species and their habitats, reducing pollution, controlling and removing exotic species, maintaining ecological and evolutionary processes and restoring landscape connectivity. The Vision is a prescription for the future. It recognizes that national parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges have accomplished a great deal for nature. But over time, protected areas have been surrounded by roads and degraded landscapes. Now, the protected areas are too isolated to sustain viable populations of large animals, let alone many ecological and evolutionary processes. The Southern Rockies Wildlands Network Vision is a conservation blueprint and collaborative effort of the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, the Denver Zoo, and the Wildlands Project for the Southern Rockies of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.
Author : Allan K. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0847694224
Fitzsimmons "examines the science, philosophy, and law of ecosystems management and shows how efforts to make federal protection of ecosystems the centerpiece of national environmental policy are driven by religious veneration of Mother Earth wrapped in a veil of weak science."
Author : George Wuerthner,Eileen Crist,Tom Butler
Publisher : Foundations for Deep Ecology 3
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610915585
Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated, an engineered global garden managed by technocrats to serve humanity? The schism between advocates of rewilding and those who accept and even celebrate a “post-wild” world is arguably the hottest intellectual battle in contemporary conservation. In Keeping the Wild, a group of prominent scientists, writers, and conservation activists responds to the Anthropocene-boosters who claim that wild nature is no more (or in any case not much worth caring about), that human-caused extinction is acceptable, and that “novel ecosystems” are an adequate replacement for natural landscapes. With rhetorical fists swinging, the book’s contributors argue that these “new environmentalists” embody the hubris of the managerial mindset and offer a conservation strategy that will fail to protect life in all its buzzing, blossoming diversity. With essays from Eileen Crist, David Ehrenfeld, Dave Foreman, Lisi Krall, Harvey Locke, Curt Meine, Kathleen Dean Moore, Michael Soulé, Terry Tempest Williams and other leading thinkers, Keeping the Wild provides an introduction to this important debate, a critique of the Anthropocene boosters’ attack on traditional conservation, and unapologetic advocacy for wild nature.
Author : Charles C. Chester
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597268493
Conservationists have long been aware that political boundaries rarely coincide with natural boundaries. From the establishment of early "peace parks" to the designation of continental migratory pathways, a wide range of transborder mechanisms to protect biodiversity have been established by conservationists in both the public and private sectors. Conservation Across Borders presents a broad overview of the history of transboundary conservation efforts and an accessible introduction to current issues surrounding the subject. Through detailed examinations of two initiatives, the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) and the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative (Y2Y), the book helps readers understand the benefits and challenges of landscape-scale protection. In addition to discussing general concepts and the specific experience of ISDA and Y2Y, the author considers the emerging concept of "conservation effectiveness" and offers a comparative analysis of the two projects. The book ends with a discussion of the complex relationships among civil society, governments, and international borders. By considering the history, goals, successes, and failures of two divergent initiatives, the book offers important insights into the field of transborder conservation along with valuable lessons for those studying or working in the field.
Author : Michael E. Soulé
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1610913884
Continental Conservation is an important guidebook that can serve a vital role in helping fashion a radically honest, scientifically rigorous land-use agenda.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCAL:B5104674
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063582261
Author : James Gordon Nelson,Lucy M. Sportza
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781552380840
"Based on a workshop on Regional Approaches to Parks and Protected Areas in North America, held at Tijuana, Mexico, March 1999"--p. xv.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P007040878
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000043035236
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924090202635
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996448S
The Seventh World Wilderness Congress met in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 2001. The symposium on science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values was one of several symposia held in conjunction with the Congress. The papers contained in this proceedings were presented at this symposium and cover seven topics: state-of-knowledge on protected areas issues in South Africa; traditional and ecological values of nature; wilderness systems and approaches to protection; protection of coastal/marine and river/lake wilderness; spiritual benefits, religious beliefs, and new stories; personal and societal values of wilderness; and the role of science, education, and collaborative planning in wilderness protection and restoration.
Author : Alan E. Watson,Janet Sproull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015058806012