Assisted migration

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Assisted migration is the practice of deliberately repopulating members of a species from their present habitat to a new region with the intent of establishing a permanent presence there, generally in response to the degradation of the natural habitat due to human action.

In 2007 conservation biologists began formally discussing assisted migration as a mechanism for dealing with the predicted effects of global warming on biological species.[1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ A Radical Step to Preserve a Species: Assisted Migration, Carl Zimmer, New York Times. January 23, 2007.

[edit] Further Reading

Fox, Douglas. 2007. When worlds collide. Conservation 8(1):28-34.

Torreya Guardians has a webpage devoted to hotlinks for following the proposals and news on assisted migration and rewilding: "Assisted Migration Hotlinks".