Wild Life: The Institution of Nature
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804795681 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Insights into the Management of Rare Wildlife Gerry Irus Braverman is a University at Buffalo law professor who has now written her second book about animals. Her first was Zooland and this is her second. A lawyer writing about animals may seem an odd conflation, but in this case I believe that Braverman has taken on a perfect assignment. Her book is about our responses to animal's threatened by extinction and complex legal issues are involved. Who better than a lawyer to organize, analyze and address those issues? Here I believe that she has done a masterful job.In fact as I read this book, I soon realized that t. The many faces of conservation in a human-dominated world Marc Bekoff This is a most thoughtful and well-written book about the difficulty of separating ideas about the lives of nonhuman animals (animals) who are held "captive" and animals who are considered to be "wild." While there are clear distinctions, for example, between an elephant who is held captive in a cage in a zoo and shipped around here and there as a mating machine, and an elephant who is free to move around in large wild areas, even those who are fenced, the latter individuals still are captive but to a lesser degree than their caged relatives. Many other examples
Braverman draws on interviews with more than one hundred and twenty conservation biologists, zoologists, zoo professionals, government officials, and wildlife managers to explore the various perspectives on in situ and ex situ conservation and the blurring of the lines between them.. Yet in the shadows of such dedication and persistence in saving the life of species, Wild Life also finds sacrifice and death. Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation. It also documents the emerging understanding that all forms of wild nature—both in situ (on-site) and ex situ (in captivity)—may need to be managed in perpetuity. Interwoven between its pages are stories about golden lion tamarins in Brazil, black-footed ferrets in the American Plains, Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia, Tasmanian devils in Australia, and many more creatures both human and nonhuman. Providing a unique window into the high-stakes world of nature conservation, Irus Braverman describes the heroic efforts by conservationists to save wild life. Such life and death stories outline the modern struggle to define what conservation should look like at a time when the long-established definitions of nature have collapsed.Wild Life begins with the plight of a tiny e
"Braverman has a legal background, but she demonstrates familiarity with key issues in conservation and has evidently consulted widely with a variety of experts who present a range of different viewpoints Overall, this work presents some important issues that can complicate and detract from the success of conservation initiatives, and it will be of value to graduate students and professionals seriously considering a career in conservation."Susan Catherine Cork, Conservation Biology