Conservation and Restoration Ecology: Crash Course Ecology #12
Hank wraps up the Crash Course on ecology by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology, which use all the kung fu moves we've learned about in the...
========== For the past 12 weeks, we've been investigating
our living planet together, and learning how it works on many levels;
how populations of organisms interact, how communities thrive and ecosystems change, and how humans are wrecking the nice, perfectly
functioning systems Earth has been using for hundreds of thousands
of years. And now it's graduation day! This here is like the commencement speech, where I talk to you about the future and our role in it, and how what we're doing to the planet is
totally awful, but we're taking steps to undo some of the
damage that we've done. So what better way to wrap up our series on
ecology than by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology
and restoration ecology. These disciplines use...