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Islandness: The Case for a Place-Based Approach to Conservation

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Islandness: The Case for a Place-Based Approach to Conservation
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Islands are more than just ecological laboratories; they are socio-cultural hubs that host over a quarter of the world’s human languages. To be effective, conservation must shift toward a “place-based” approach that respects the unique, inseparable bond between insular communities and the environments they steward.







In ecology, islands have long been considered as perfect natural laboratories due to their distinctive features. Among them: their geographical isolation, th

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