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A new approach to conservation: The importance of the individual through wildlife rehabilitation

Author
Aitken G.
Date
2004
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-072487)
Publisher | Place of publication
Ashgate Publishing Ltd | Aldershot, UK
ISBN
0 7546 3283 0
Pages
218 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Wild species & ecosystems
Keyword
Policy/planning Wild fauna Management/conservation Wild flora
Abstract

Contents: Part I: Exploring conservation 's basic assumptions: Extinction; Rarity; Nativity Part II: The conservationist 's role redefined: Humans and nature: Is conservation meaningful?; How is nature to be safeguarded? Conservationist, custodian of wildness Part III: A new emphasis in conservation: The problem with species: Reviewing units of importance; Wildlife rehabilitation as conservation strategy?; Conservation and individual worth; Compatibility: Problems and answers Part IV: The upshot; Implications for action: Managing wildness?; The new conservation; Bibliography; Index