INVESTIGADORES
BORTOLUS alejandro
artículos
Título:
What would have Darwin written now?
Autor/es:
ALEJANDRO BORTOLUS; E SCHWINDT,
Revista:
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
Editorial:
Springer
Referencias:
Año: 2007 vol. 16 p. 337 - 345
ISSN:
0960-3115
Resumen:
We often wonder how many of the pristine places left on Earth we can protect from
deterioration before it is too late. The assumption that remote regions remain pristine plays a key
role in directing policies for regional environmental management and conservation, and affects the
local and global financial impetus to do so. In this paper, we use Argentinean Patagonia and the
SW Atlantic as examples to argue that the assumption remote region = pristine region is unjustified
and based on a lack of information rather than on scientific evidence. We also discuss the
major existing environmental threats to this supposedly pristine region, and use emblematic
examples to provide a more realistic picture of the regional environmental integrity and to set
recommendations directed to improve environmental management and conservation within this
context.