Against Extinction

* From hunting to national parks, it asks and answers the big questions about why we have struggled, and continue to struggle, to conserve nature * Looks to the future and suggests a new course for conservation in the 21st century * Essential reading for conservationists, ecologists, park and natural resource managers, tourism practitioners, and students and scholars The story of conservation from its origins in 1903, when the Society for the Preservation of the Wild Fauna of the Empire was founded in London, to the present day in which it has become a huge international enterprise. Yet this book is not simply an account of what happened, but rather it is about why it happened. "Against Extinction" is, above all, about the big questions and ideas that have driven conservation for a century. How can the diversity of life be maintained as human demands on the earth expand seemingly without end? How can you reconcile preservation with human rights and the development needs of the poor? Is conservation something that needs to be imposed on people, or is it only something that emerges from people's free choice? These have never been easy questions and the answers, as Adams reveals, have been even more difficult.

Bill Adams is Reader in Conservation and Development at the University of Cambridge.

Foreword	p. viii
Preface	p. xii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xv
The Challenge of Nature	p. 1
Bringing back the wild	p. 1
From guns to parks	p. 4
The problem of naturalness	p. 6
Community and conservation	p. 9
Hybrid nature	p. 10
The challenge of conservation	p. 11
Outline of the book	p. 12
Good Hunting	p. 19
Empty plains	p. 19
Imperial conservation	p. 22
Extinction	p. 25
Pressure for preservation	p. 27
Proper hunting	p. 30
Shooting as an argument for conservation	p. 37
On safari	p. 39
The Global Conservation Regime	p. 43
The need for international action	p. 43
Empire preservation	p. 46
Beyond empire	p. 47
Global nature conservation	p. 49
Decolonization and conservation	p. 51
The new professionals	p. 54
Broadcast nature	p. 58
Nature lovers: the growth of popular environmentalism	p. 60
Partners for conservation	p. 62
Nature in Its Place	p. 67
Reserves for wildlife	p. 67
Dividing the land	p. 73
The idea of national parks	p. 76
The national park spirit	p. 82
Nature and parks in the United Kingdom	p. 84
Parks for the colonies	p. 88
Decolonization and national parks	p. 93
The conservation estate	p. 97
Poachers to Partners	p. 101
Saving the wild	p. 101
Wilderness and cultural imagination	p. 102
Managing wild nature	p. 107
The poacher at home	p. 108
Nature's fortress	p. 111
Living with parks	p. 115
Parks for people	p. 117
Two by Two	p. 125
Some are more equal than others	p. 125
Red for danger	p. 129
Operation save the species	p. 132
The wild captive	p. 137
Saving the unicorns	p. 140
Releasing the captive	p. 144
Species in situ	p. 147
Species and identity	p. 150
The Demands of Development	p. 153
Spaceship Earth	p. 153
Human space	p. 155
Development, colonization and conservation	p. 157
Wildlife and development	p. 160
Game, disease and development	p. 162
Nature's conservationist	p. 166
Sustainable development	p. 169
The impacts of development	p. 171
Damned by development	p. 173
Reconciling conservation and development	p. 176
Trading Nature	p. 181
A zoo in their luggage	p. 181
The problem of ivory	p. 184
Outconsuming nature	p. 186
Without borders	p. 189
The devil and the deep blue sea	p. 190
The fur flies	p. 194
Use it or lose it	p. 200
Conservation's Plan	p. 203
Conservation's corporate plan	p. 203
Back to barriers	p. 207
The costs and benefits of conservation	p. 209
The wildlife resource	p. 214
Wildlife as a crop	p. 217
Community-based safari hunting	p. 220
Profiting with nature	p. 223
Society with Nature	p. 227
Nature's degradation	p. 227
Nature's renewal	p. 231
Nature's image	p. 232
Nature's neighbours	p. 235
Society with nature	p. 239
Notes	p. 241
Index	p. 303
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