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