The old conservation, the new conservation and the future of conservation

LICHTENSTEIN , G

CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2016 vol. 0 p. 1 - 3

0888-8892

A new movement led by the chair of the science cabinet of The Nature Conservancy, one of North Americas largest conservation organizations, seeks to refocus the field of conservation biology and the practical work of conservation organizations by deemphasizing the goal of protecting nature for its intrinsic values in favor of protecting the environment for its benefits to humans(Doak et al. 2014). According to this position, conservation will keep failing unless it acknowledges that humankind has already profoundly transformed the planet,that pristine wild lands are gone, and that most of the growing human population are city dwellers. ?Whether or not the developing world sets aside a large percentage of its landscapes as parks or wilderness over the next hundred years, what is clear is that those protected areas will remain islands of ?pristine nature? in a sea of profound human transformations to the landscape through logging, agriculture,mining, damming, and urbanization?(Kareiva et al. 2012).