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| Gretchen C. Daily |
We all live on a crowded planet that is getting more crowded all the time. So how should we practice conservation, keep plant and animal species from going extinct and preserve the economic, social and aesthetic benefits that nature provides to humans?
The answer, according to ecologist Gretchen C. Daily, cannot be to create many new reserves where the environment is protected in a natural state, untouched by humans. There is not enough room. Instead, Daily told a University of Minnesota audience on June 13, the answer has to be to look for ways the plants and animals we most need can survive in coexistence with agriculture and other human activities.
Read an Aug. 9, 2011, New York Times profile of Daily. View video of Daily’s presentation, listen to audio of the talk or download a podcast. View slides from the lecture. Read a Finance and Commerce newspaper account of Daily’s talk. View archived video from past lectures.
And the answer to protecting nature in the face of human population growth, Daily said, almost certainly will involve putting a