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Conservation, natural history and science: the challenge too great, the time too short (forum commentary)
Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol.14(1), pp.5-6
Surrey Beatty & Sons
2008
Abstract
Good conservation is sound management based on good science and a thorough understanding of the natural history of the organisms and systems being managed. Even doing nothing, as some advocate for wilderness, is a management decision and one which should have its foundations in science and natural history. This idea that conservation management should have a strong scientific and natural history basis is a recurrent theme of Duffy and Kraus (2008) in their analysis of conservation management in Hawaii. It is a theme that I cannot disagree with, nor can I disagree with Duffy and Kraus when they argue that natural history knowledge is not appreciated and that there is a failure to include scientific knowledge in management decisions. I don't have to live and work in Hawaii to reach this view; not much is different in Australia.
Details
- Title
- Conservation, natural history and science: the challenge too great, the time too short (forum commentary)
- Authors/Creators
- H.F. Recher (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Pacific Conservation Biology, Vol.14(1), pp.5-6
- Publisher
- Surrey Beatty & Sons
- Identifiers
- 991005544835807891
- Copyright
- © Surrey Beatty & Sons
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Other
- Resource Sub-type
- Nonrefereed Article
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