Foundation for Deep Ecology

Protecting the wild : parks and wilderness, the foundation of conservation

A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of EarthProtecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene. Even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world.

Author(s)
Butler, Tom
Crist, Eileen
Wuerthner, George

Keeping the wild : against the domestication of Earth

Is it time to embrace the so-called “Anthropocene”—the age of human dominion—and to abandon tried-and-true conservation tools such as parks and wilderness areas? Is the future of Earth to be fully domesticated?

Author(s)
Butler, Tom
Crist, Eileen
Wuerthner, George
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