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The Virtues and Shortcomings of Parochialism: Conserving Species That Are Locally Rare, but Globally Common

The Virtues and Shortcomings of Parochialism: Conserving Species That Are Locally Rare, but... M A N HUTCHINSON Endangered Species Group Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 650 State Street Bangor, ME 04401, U.S~.. Conservation biologists are fairly good at looking at the big picture. Most of us fully understand alpha, beta, and g a m m a diversity and the importance of giving priority to biota that are in jeopardy at a global scale. However, w h e n w e m o v e f r o m thinking globally to acting locally, sometimes w e lose our cosmopolitan perspective. For example, w h e n the National Audubon Society set out to raise funds to restore a puffin population on an island on the Maine coast, it asked m e m b e r s to help "save the e n d a n g e r e d puffin." This fund-raising c a m p a i g n required an e x t r e m e l y parochial view of the world, a view that saw a few score Atlantic puffins nesting in the United States and ignored millions in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Europe. Such parochialism is fostered by the fact that many http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Conservation Biology Wiley

The Virtues and Shortcomings of Parochialism: Conserving Species That Are Locally Rare, but Globally Common

Hunter, Malcolm L.; Hutchinson, Alan
Conservation Biology , Volume 8 (4) – Dec 1, 1994
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Copyright © 1994 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0888-8892
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1523-1739
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10.1046/j.1523-1739.1994.08041163.x
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M A N HUTCHINSON Endangered Species Group Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 650 State Street Bangor, ME 04401, U.S~.. Conservation biologists are fairly good at looking at the big picture. Most of us fully understand alpha, beta, and g a m m a diversity and the importance of giving priority to biota that are in jeopardy at a global scale. However, w h e n w e m o v e f r o m thinking globally to acting locally, sometimes w e lose our cosmopolitan perspective. For example, w h e n the National Audubon Society set out to raise funds to restore a puffin population on an island on the Maine coast, it asked m e m b e r s to help "save the e n d a n g e r e d puffin." This fund-raising c a m p a i g n required an e x t r e m e l y parochial view of the world, a view that saw a few score Atlantic puffins nesting in the United States and ignored millions in Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and Europe. Such parochialism is fostered by the fact that many

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