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I cut my intellectual teeth at the pinnacle of the 1980s conservation biology movement. Inspired by outspoken scientists the likes of Edward Wilson, Thomas Lovejoy, Reed Noss, Michael Soulé, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, and Carl Sagan, it was an exciting time to be at the forefront of an emerging planetary discipline.
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DellaSala, D.A. (2020). Has Anthropocentrism Replaced Ecocentrism in Conservation?. In: Kopnina, H., Washington, H. (eds) Conservation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13905-6_7
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