Valuing Nature
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Nature conservation work has come a long way in just over a century. In the 19th century, species were grouped into useful and harmful ones. Protection, which was beginning to be enshrined in laws and international treaties, was only extended to the useful species. Nuisances such as lions and bears were unflinchingly earmarked for destruction. Since the foundation of the International Union for the Protection of Nature (IUPN, later IUCN) in 1948, there has been a growing buzz of international conferences and treaties that have increasingly acknowledged the importance of the biosphere with all its biodiversity. UNESCO set up world heritage sites of nature such as the Galapagos Islands (Curr. Biol. 20, R656), and IUCN regularly updated its Red List of endangered species. “There is no shortage of agreements,” said OECD environment director Simon Upton at the recent World Forum for Enterprise and the Environment, “but what we need to target is the compliance.” Upton counted 1,045 international agreements since the 19th century, and yet countries around the world are still feeding their economic growth with an ever-increasing use of fossil Feature
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 21 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011