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University of British Columbia, Tuesdays 15:00-16:00 PST
Food for thought paper by Kai Chan, Conservation Biology 2008: Value and Advocacy in Conservation Biology: Crisis Discipline or Discipline in Crisis?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2007.00869.x
Article from Nature: Why we need wilderness
“More than 77% of land (excluding Antarctica) and 87% of the ocean bear the fingerprints of human activity. The remaining wilderness areas are becoming increasingly important buffers against changing conditions in the Anthropocene. Yet they aren’t an explicit target in international-policy frameworks, note seven researchers who led an international team of scientists to map the world’s remaining wild places. They call for global policies that formally recognize the value of wilderness as carbon stores, cradles of biodiversity and home to some of the most politically and economically marginalized Indigenous communities on Earth.”
From Nature | The top 5 countries alone contain more than 70% of the world’s wilderness.