[pbs] Conservation by Assisted Migration

J.E. Shields jshields104 at comcast.net
Sun Jul 20 10:44:15 EDT 2008


Ex situ conservation is the most horrible of horrors to many 
conservationists. A worldwide group of conservation biologists proposes 
that humans may need to assist plants and animals threatened with 
extinction by global climate change to find new habitats.

Reports on this paper can be found in various newspapers, among which is 
the Los Angeles Times, at:
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Science/SCI_Saving_Species.html

The original article can be found on the Science Magazine web site at
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/321/5887/345

This is going to be a very inflammatory subject for a long time to come. I 
see it as a fundamental conflict between realists and romantics. I would 
guess that there will never be much agreement on this subject, but we 
should all start thinking seriously about this matter, nevertheless.

Jim Shields

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