Comments on: Is Conservation…Unnatural? http://blog.nature.org/2009/03/is-conservation-unnatural-invasive/ A blog on conservation, from migratory birds to coral reefs, from rainforests to climate change to personal green technology. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:29:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michelle http://blog.nature.org/2009/03/is-conservation-unnatural-invasive/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 Michelle Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:28:24 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=2130#comment-1254 Hey Erik, I enjoyed your post and the questions it provoked. I have posted a response on my blog at www.envjournal. com. I hope you will check it out. Thanks! Hey Erik,
I enjoyed your post and the questions it provoked. I have posted a response on my blog at http://www.envjournal. com. I hope you will check it out.

Thanks!

]]> By: A Look at Invasives » envjournal http://blog.nature.org/2009/03/is-conservation-unnatural-invasive/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 A Look at Invasives » envjournal Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:20:45 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=2130#comment-1252 [...] came across an article posted on The Nature Conservancy’s blog that I thought was worth exploring. The question being posed is: is conservation [...] [...] came across an article posted on The Nature Conservancy’s blog that I thought was worth exploring. The question being posed is: is conservation [...]

]]> By: Erik Meijaard http://blog.nature.org/2009/03/is-conservation-unnatural-invasive/comment-page-1/#comment-1216 Erik Meijaard Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:38:22 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=2130#comment-1216 Thanks Margo. Please pass it on to others who might be interested in the ideas I presented in the blog Thanks Margo. Please pass it on to others who might be interested in the ideas I presented in the blog

]]> By: Margo http://blog.nature.org/2009/03/is-conservation-unnatural-invasive/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 Margo Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:36:09 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=2130#comment-1199 Nice post, Erik! Nice post, Erik!

]]> By: brooks http://blog.nature.org/2009/03/is-conservation-unnatural-invasive/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 brooks Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:24:56 +0000 http://blog.nature.org/?p=2130#comment-1132 wow, what a great question for any budding ecologist, if only for the further questions it poses! the dingo serves in a valuable niche now that the thylacine is gobe from australia, but has been on the continent only on the order of tens of thousands of years; the same for the cat-sized foxes of california's Channel Islands (though as far as we no there were no 'large' terrestrial mammals there before them). but it doesn't take long for a 'natural' dynamic to establish itself, what with feral cats controlling predatory rat populations on other islands only landed upon by human sailors an evolutionary eye-blink ago. almost dizzying to consider.... wow, what a great question for any budding ecologist, if only for the further questions it poses!

the dingo serves in a valuable niche now that the thylacine is gobe from australia, but has been on the continent only on the order of tens of thousands of years; the same for the cat-sized foxes of california’s Channel Islands (though as far as we no there were no ‘large’ terrestrial mammals there before them).

but it doesn’t take long for a ‘natural’ dynamic to establish itself, what with feral cats controlling predatory rat populations on other islands only landed upon by human sailors an evolutionary eye-blink ago.

almost dizzying to consider….

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