AGENDA
- Urban ecology ideas
- Rewilding
Monday--Urban ecology
Visit ideas (not too far from Dallas!)
- White Rock Lake (east side: birds but also trash)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/N5Gh4FmfYmtbE5RB7?g_st=i
Orange fencing is in front of tree - Eagle's nest (right)
- Arboretum - also relevant to "faking nature"
- Klyde Warren Park
- North of Dallas -- Heard Museum nature preserve
- Goat Island (super urban nature)
- Cedar Ridge preserve
- Live oaks in front of Dallas Hall!
- Bear Creek park
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Wilderness is threatened....
Three interventions:
- Restoration -- returning nature to a past state -- before the mine, before the near extinction of buffalo, etc.
- Returning -- giving back parts of nature to indigenous people (for them to manage and conserve)
- Rewilding -- what is it?
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What is rewilding?
Rewilding vs. other views
- Aldo Leopold, ecological holism -- "A things is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise." (Leopold p. 224-225)
- "integrity" -- native vs. invasive -- what belongs here?
- Monbiot -- it doesn't matter -- see list in Feral
- Peter Singer, Clare Pamer -- individual animals have moral status
- Monbiot -- in a better ecosystem there is more "animals eating animals"
- Some pro-animal authors would like to see less predation
- genetically alter the predators so they become hervibores (Kyle Johanssen, "The Wild Frontier of Animal Welfare")
- let predators go extinct (Jeff McMahan, "The Meat Eaters")
- Restoring vs. Rewilding
- Restoration--going back to a particular time
- Rewilding -- moving forward
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| Monbiot p. 10 |
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- Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (Russia) (passive)
- Restoring wolves in Yellowstone (active)
- Urban rewilding
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More projects Monbiot discusses
- Reintroducing keystone species -- beavers, lions, boar, moose, bison, lynx
- Dextinction
- Rewilding land formerly used for agriculture
- Rewilding oceans
- Trees for Life
- joining together private gardens
- fewer sheep!
- rewilding organizations: Rewilding Earth, Rewilding Europe, Rewilding Patagonia
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