Conservation by Assisted Migration
J.E. Shields (Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:44:15 PDT)

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://ajc.com/news/content/…

The original article can be found on the Science Magazine web site at
http://sciencemag.org/cgi/content/…

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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