The late Michael Soulé, godfather of conservation biology, offered this critique of ‘New Conservation” and its consequences for regions like Greater Yellowstone
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Michael Soulé is considered a pioneering figure in modern ecological thinking. As founder of the Society for Conservation Biology, he advanced many ideas about landscape-level conservation that, while initially radical, are today the cornerstones of 21st century wildlife preservation. Many of his ideas are writ large in regions like Greater Yellowstone, with the recovery of grizzly bears, wolves and bison and efforts to safeguard the longest remaining wildlife migration corridors in the Lower 48. Soulé died on June 17, 2020. Large landscape thinking, experts say, is the only hope of perpetuating the survival of healthy wildlife populations in the face of human development and climate change.