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| Sandbrook, C. | |
| What is conservation | |
| 2015 Oryx (49): 565-566 | |
In a recent Editorial in Conservation Biology, Michael Soul‚, a founding father of the discipline of Conservation Biology, took issue with a group of scholars and practitioners who have developed the so-called new conservation. He argued that 'because [new conservation's] goal is to supplant the biological diversity-based model of traditional conservation with something entirely different, namely an economic growth-based or humanitarian movement, it does not deserve to be labelled conservation'. What is remarkable about this statement is Soul‚'s presumption that there is a clear definition of what conservation is. As his article makes clear, he believes that conservation should be about protecting nature for its own sake, and that a movement that focuses on delivering benefits to people is therefore not conservation at all. |
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