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Bigger Isn't Always Better for Wildlife Reserves
By Lynne Peeples, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor posted: 10 November 2010 10:03 am ET For Threatened Species, Reserves Suffer From Poor Placement | Endangered Species & Biodiversity, Environment | LiveScience excerpt from above: Quote:
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A Bee's Best Friend
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Bigger may not always be better but sometimes it is. It is not only the rare or endangered that needs space and protection. Ecosystem services need to remain intact to function at optimum efficiency. So much more knowledge, about what and how much of that what, is needed for continuity.
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Single areas can act as jails for offspring looking for areas of their own.
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A Bee's Best Friend
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Very true Jack, I have been reading about conservation easements on private land that help create or maintain corridors. There is so much going on that doesn't get much mainstream coverage.
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Y2Y is the corridor between Yellowstone and the Yukon. It has realized great success in allowing the largest and most influential of the predators to migrate - even across major highways that had once been primary killers of any individual restless enough to try to cross one of them. She acknowledges that more work is to be done, but that the incipient stages of the project confirm its importance.
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Check out the article "Think Big" in the current issue (13 January 2011) of 'Nature' magazine - Think big : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
"The best way to manage national parks in the face of the effects of climate change is not to manage at the park level, but to work with landscapes. A new US initiative shows the way." "...conservation biologists, since at least the early 1990s, have called for parks to be connected to one another by unbroken corridors of nature, through which large species can move. For small mobile species, such as birds and insects, a stepping-stone scatter of protected areas close to one another has much the same effect. Climate change makes such connectivity even more important, as species challenged by the changing climate will need big gene pools to draw from and lots of different places to which they can move to. In particular, sites with microclimates to harbour species that can't take the heat need to be identified, protected and linked to existing protected areas." "It would be unforgivable to lose honeyeaters, antelopes, grizzlies and orchids, not because scientists didn't know how to save them, but because they were mired in bureaucratic mud."
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