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Chapter Eight - The Reasons for Conservation

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I once visited a very good school where the headmaster concentrated on getting his pupils interested in running a large vegetable garden. It was a fine garden and the children were obviously enjoying their craft. I asked the master if he had time to tell them anything about animals and he answered: ‘Oh yes, I teach them that animals are pests!’

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Elton, C.S. (2020). Chapter Eight - The Reasons for Conservation. In: The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34721-5_16

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