“Ideas have become a little more flexible. In 2016, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity added a purpose for restoration, to sustain resilience and conserve biodiversity. The SER now describes the aim of ecological restoration as ‘to move a degraded ecosystem to a trajectory of recovery that allows adaptation to local and global changes, as well as persistence and evolution of its component species.’ 39 Conservation scientists recommend that for conservation programs to be successful, specific targets must be set for interventions and projects, and progress must be judged against them. However, as Dutch philosopher Josef Keulartz observes, restoration of past conditions is ‘a Sisyphean task, akin to paddling upstream into a strong current of global change.’ Over longer time periods, it becomes both less easy and less useful to know what state of nature to use as a baseline against which to measure success. 40 The ecological past is one of constant change. Over decades, centuries, and millennia, ecosystems have evolved continuously in response to climate, as different sets of species have self-assembled to form ecosystems. Furthermore, it is not easy to put a date on the onset of human impacts. Key moments of intense human action may be obvious in some places. In North or South America or Australia, the arrival of Europeans created a marked historical discontinuity, a step up in the level of destruction of nature that accompanied the colonial annexation of territory.”
Strange Natures: Conservation in the Era of Synthetic Biology de Kent H. Redford, William M. Adams
https://amz.onl/gZ0llS7
#Biodiversity #eDNA #Metabarcoding #Speciesless #TaxonomicFree
/ Mauro Rebelo | Tagomago
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