Geoengineering for Animals | Kitty Mowmow's Animal Expo

Geoengineering for Animals

As the world drags its feet on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, respected scientists have proposed some crazy stopgap solutions, from orbital mirrors to manmade volcanoes.

Conservationists are taking a similar approach, but with animals.

A commentary published today in Science marks the center-stage debut of assisted colonization -- saving vanishing species by picking them up and putting them somewhere new.

It's a highly controversial proposition, to say the least: opponents say it's a potentially ecosystem-wrecking false panacea. But it's being seriously considered by the conservation community. And while working on a feature about the debate, I spoke to Notre Dame ecologist Jessica Hellmann, co-author of this influential Conservation Biology paper [.pdf]

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