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Devolution, de-evolution, or backward evolution (not to be confused with dysgenics) is the notion that species can revert to supposedly more primitive forms over time. The concept relates to the idea that evolution has a divine purpose and is thus progressive (orthogenesis), for example that feet might be better than hooves, or lungs than gills.
Another reason for wider support was because of a fund started to compensate farmers that lost livestock to the big cats that conservationists hope to protect using these corridors, and healthcare programs that provided free services to ranchers who committed to not killing critically endangered jaguars.
There are a variety of approaches to species reintroduction. The optimal strategy will depend on the biology of the organism. [4] The first matter to address when beginning a species reintroduction is whether to source individuals in situ, from wild populations, or ex situ, from captivity in a zoo or botanic garden, for example.
As we are communing with nature, let me suggest a few classic texts and one modern text destined to join our conservation canon: Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854) By Henry David Thoreau
Biophysical measurements of nature quantify the ecosphere in physical units such as cubic metres, kilograms or joules. bioregion - (ecoregion) an area comprising a natural ecological community and bounded by natural borders. bioremediation - a process using organisms to remove or neutralise contaminants (e.g. petrol), mostly in soil or water.
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement about supporting life, habitats, and surroundings.While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism.
Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time, emphasising the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs and vice versa. Environmental history first emerged in the United States out of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and much of its impetus still stems from present-day ...
Many contemporary environmental and other movements, such as the organic food movement, various fad diets, "back to nature" movements, as well as "folk movements", have their roots in the Lebensreform movement's emphasis on the goodness of nature, the harms caused by industrialization to society, people, and nature, the importance of the whole ...