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What does Rewilding have to do with Reintroductions - or vice versa - Professor Phil Seddon

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
11:45 AM - 11:55 AM
Sirius / Pleiades Room, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

Speaker

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Professor Philip Seddon
Professor
University of Otago

What does Rewilding have to do with Reintroductions - or vice versa

Abstract

Rewilding as a conservation approach was conceived back in 1998 as the translocation of top-order predators into large connected areas of protected wilderness - cores, corridors, and carnivores. Since that time rewilding has become all things to all people, from the unmanipulated recovery of abandoned agricultural land, to the active restoration of key fauna. Rewilding in the current context overlaps with Reintroduction Biology and Restoration Ecology, but these interactions are not always clearly delineated. In this talk I will summarise recent work in which I explored the role of conservation translocations in rewilding, placed rewilding within the conservation translocation spectrum, and defined the intersections between rewilding, reintroduction, and restoration.

Biography

Phil Seddon is a Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago. He has been involved in conservation translocation planning, policy, application, and training, and member of the IUCN/SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group for over 30 years
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