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Conservation is for the first time beginning to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet's most intractable environmental challenges. New technologies have given conservationists abilities that would have seemed like super powers just a few years ago. We can now monitor entire ecosystems -- think of the Amazon rainforest in nearly real time, using remote sensors to map their three-dimensional structures; satellite communications to follow elusive creatures, such as the jaguar and the puma; and smartphones to report illegal logging. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses the roots of the persistent inclination of wildlife conservation science & advocacy toward regressive politics, considering recent studies on grizzly bear conservation & ecology & their linkages between scientific research data & the accompanying normative proposals. The analysis is based generally on the notions that (1) conservation biology is imbued with the language & tropes of classical political economy; & (2) most conservation biologists fail to interrogate the genealogies or sociohistorical situations of the foundational discipline tropes they invoke. Three particular conclusions are reached. First, much of wildlife ecology is marked by a residual if tacit sociobiology that leads to some rather ludicrous connections between the "natural" & the "social." Second, a number of scientists approach interrogating the links between current social relations & ecological problems, but they fall short of a radical questioning. Last, the previous two assertions are related, as the essentialist, quasi-sociobiology practiced by these scientists forecloses any chance to contextualize analyses in their sociohistorical situations. K. Coddon