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    Wildlife conservation involves protecting animal species and their habitats. It is important for maintaining ecological balance and human quality of life. Wildlife conservation values include recreational, aesthetic, educational, biological, sociocultural, and commercial benefits. Conservation decisions consider what values underlie attitudes toward wildlife, what types of wildlife people find valuable, and where and how wildlife can be experienced.

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    Wildlife conservation involves protecting animal species and their habitats. It is important for maintaining ecological balance and human quality of life. Wildlife conservation values include recreational, aesthetic, educational, biological, sociocultural, and commercial benefits. Conservation decisions consider what values underlie attitudes toward wildlife, what types of wildlife people find valuable, and where and how wildlife can be experienced.

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    Wildlife Conservation
    Keith G. Tidball 1

    (1) Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, 115A Bruckner Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

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    Definition

    Wildlife conservation is an activity in which humans make conscious efforts to protect plants and other
    animal species and their habitats. Wildlife conservation is very important because wildlife and
    wilderness play an important role in maintaining the ecological balance and contribute to human quality
    of life.

    Description
    The phrase wildlife conservation conceptually invokes a valuation process in which it is decided that
    something, in this case wildlife, must be conserved. The decision to conserve requires a justification and
    associated valuation of that which is to be conserved. Justifications for conservation can be thought of
    broadly as falling into two categories: The first category assumes that there are potentially identifiable
    benefits to be derived through conservation, and the second category is based on the idea that
    organisms have a right to exist because they have already existed for a long time, so that there is a
    difficult to define though recognizable benefit to be derived by these organisms’ mere existence (see
    Margules & Usher, 1981, among others, for a thorough review of these categories). Valuation, then, in
    terms of wildlife conservation, must recognize distinctions between “held” and “assigned” values of

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    wildlife (Brown, 1984) and must consider what values underlie attitudes toward wildlife and what types
    of wildlife and their number, in what settings in which we find them, and what opportunities they
    provide (Brown & Manfredo, 1987).

    Decker and colleagues (Decker, Brown et al., 2001) traced the development of wildlife conservation
    and management by reviewing textbooks and other important documents starting with the work of
    Aldo Leopold and leading up into the 1980s. In this work, these scholars concluded that the most
    useful concept for contemporary wildlife management and conservation was that wildlife management
    and conservation consists of “the science and art of making decisions and taking actions to manipulate
    the structures, dynamics, and relations of populations, habitats, and people to achieve specific human
    objectives by means of the wildlife resource” (Giles, 1978).

    Kinds or categories of values that stimulate efforts to engage in wildlife conservation include
    recreational, aesthetic, educational, biological, sociocultural, and commercial (for further discussion of
    categories and typologies of values and wildlife conservation, see King (1947), Kellert (1980), and
    Decker and Brown et al. (2001)). Each of these kinds or categories of values in some way relates to
    quality of life; however, additional study is required to empirically determine the ways in which, and the
    degrees to which, wildlife conservation contributes to human quality of life.

    References

    Brown, P. J. (1984). Benefits of outdoor recreation and some ideas for valuing recreation
    opportunities. In G. L. Peterson & A. Randall (Eds.), Valuation of wildland resource benefits (pp.
    209–220). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

    Brown, P. J., & Manfredo, M. J. (1987). Social values defined. In D. J. Decker & G. R. Goff (Eds.),
    Valuing wildlife: Economic and social perspectives (pp. 12–23). Boulder, CO: Westview.

    Decker, D. J., Brown, T. L., & Siemer, W. F. (Eds.). (2001). Human dimensions of wildlife
    management in North America. Bethesda, MD: The Wildlife Society.

    Giles, R. H., Jr. (1978). Wildlife management. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.

    Kellert, S. R. (1980). Contemporary values of wildlife in American Society. In W. W. Shaw & E. H.


    Zube (Eds.), Wildlife values. Fort Collins, CO: Rocky Mountain Experiment Station, U. S. Forest
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    King, R. T. (1947). The future of wildlife in forest land use. Transnational North American wildlife and
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    Margules, C., & Usher, M. B. (1981). Criteria used in assessing wildlife conservation potential: A
    review. Biological Conservation, 21(2), 79–109.

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