For decades, conservation has been about protecting individual species or specific habitats – a rare bird here, some grassland there. Nothing wrong with that, but the focus has been on preserving what fragments of Nature we have left and then putting a fence around them.
As a consequence, Nature has become separate from our ‘normal’ lives, a commodity almost. If you want to ‘do’ some Nature, you drive to a nature reserve before returning to ‘civilisation’. We’ve got it all a bit skewed.
2020VISION promotes a fresh, more ambitious approach to conservation, an approach that seeks to repair, rebuild ...
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