(Re)making space for kiwi: beyond ‘fortress conservation’ in Northland

Blue, Lyndsay; Blunden, Greg

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2010.01181.x

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“…But beyond simply adding coverage, the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, which provided the data and is a major national organisation establishing and monitoring PPAs in the country, focuses on securing lands that can contribute to achieving national biodiversity priorities, increase connectivity between protected areas, and promote landscape-level conservation. PPAs in New Zealand are also known to contribute to the conservation of wetlands (Robertson, 2016) and kiwi species (Blue and Blunden, 2010).…”

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Privately Protected Areas: Missing Pieces of the Global Conservation Puzzle

Bingham

Fitzsimons

Mitchell

et al. 2021

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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Protected areas are an essential component of global conservation efforts. Although extensive information is available on the location of protected areas governed by governments, data on privately protected areas remain elusive at the global level. These are areas governed by private individuals and groups—ranging from families to religious institutions to companies—that meet IUCN's definition of a protected area: a clearly defined geographical space, recognised, dedicated and managed, through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. As the world's governments prepare to adopt a new post-2020 global biodiversity framework to guide conservation over the next decade, we argue that, without complete data on privately protected areas, they do so without a vital piece of the puzzle.

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Section: Discussion: the Need To Document Privately Protected Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Privately Protected Areas: Missing Pieces of the Global Conservation Puzzle

Bingham

Fitzsimons

Mitchell

et al. 2021

Front. Conserv. Sci.

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“…Here the desire to purge unwanted exotic plants and animals framed as invasive foreign pests and return to an indigenous environmental state considered to be pure, suggests this practice of conservation is a kind of ecological version of the cultural ontopology Wylie (2016) refers to. But it is also flawed scientifically, as scholars realise that a pre-human past cannot be truly known in an ecological sense (Head, 2000), and that in practice there is great difficulty, if not complete inability in many cases, to actually keep exotic species out of protected areas (Blue and Blunden, 2010). Beyond the New Zealand context, such criticisms are being extended to conservation science and practice more generally, as ecological restoration and invasion biology prove unable to move away from their valuing of past states imagined as stable and pure (Robbins & Moore, 2012).…”

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Ecological homelands: towards a counter-ontopology of landscape design

Abbott

Boyle

2019

Landscape Research

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Geographer John Wylie critiques problematic claims of belonging to place that would suggest a natural connection between people and topos. Such ontopological beliefs in a homeland rely on environmental determinism or historicization to assert an inextricable link between blood and soil formed over centuries of human occupation and use. In this article we examine ways ontopology operates in the protected areas of Aotearoa New Zealand, which as places that are understood as 'wild' and thus outside of the presence of people, provide an intriguing contrast for considering ontopology and how it may be approached through design. Wylie identifies two counter-ontopological positions for landscape: one an orientation towards hospitality, welcome, and sanctuary; the other seeking to destabilise homeland thinking through unsettling, dislocating, and distancing such troubling claims of belonging to place. Drawing on these directions, we examine a landscape design project undertaken by Lincoln University's Landscope Designlab at Ararira Wetland in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, which reimagines protected areas by expanding ways people might engage with them through the design of counter-ontopological forms.

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“…Kiwi were once a common and widespread genus across much of New Zealand (Miller & Pierce 1995, Shepherd et al 2012, Germano et al 2018. Currently, these birds are confined to more or less isolated habitat fragments of varying size and population density (McLennan & Potter 1992, Miller & Pierce 1995, Pierce et al 2006, Blue & Blunden 2010, and only kiwi at sites under intensive management experience population growth (Miller & Pierce 1995, Innes et al 2015, Germano et al 2018. Fortunately, the taonga and icon status of kiwi has brought substantial interest in their conservation.…”

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Gaps in genetic knowledge affect conservation management of kiwi (Apteryx) species

Undin

Hills

Lockhart

et al. 2021

Ibis

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Worldwide, there is growing appreciation of the importance of integrating genetic information into conservation management. However, there are commonly occurring problems which impact on doing this successfully. This issue is well illustrated by kiwi Apteryx species. Like many endangered taxa, extant kiwi populations are small, fragmented and isolated, raising concerns of potential inbreeding depression. Accordingly, kiwi conservation includes discussion of genetic management and translocations. To date, kiwi taxa have been the subject of 41 genetic studies. Here we provide the first synthesized review of these studies. We conclude that despite the impressive study effort, current understanding of kiwi genetics is insufficient to guide genetic management, predict translocation outcomes and manage biological diversity to achieve future sustainability of the species. We explain why, and outline research questions that can be addressed with new genome science technologies. Using new technologies to build on the foundation of work already undertaken, we see a great opportunity to address key issues for North Island Brown Kiwi Apteryx mantelli that are central to the conservation concerns for many threatened species. Specifically, we suggest that historical, disjunct, mainland populations combined with translocations of North Island Brown Kiwi to offshore islands have generated unique case studies to investigate the effects of fragmentation, cessation of gene flow, inbreeding, outbreeding and hybridization on biological diversity.

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(Re)making space for kiwi: beyond ‘fortress conservation’ in Northland

Cited by 8 publications

References 21 publications

Privately Protected Areas: Missing Pieces of the Global Conservation Puzzle

Privately Protected Areas: Missing Pieces of the Global Conservation Puzzle

Ecological homelands: towards a counter-ontopology of landscape design

Gaps in genetic knowledge affect conservation management of kiwi (Apteryx) species

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