ABSTRACT
Conservation is a management discipline that has traditionally looked to the biological sciences for its paradigms. However, many of the problems that have been encountered during the last decade have revealed that a strictly biological approach to conservation has proved inadequate. Conservation biology has, until quite recently, failed to take a geographical perspective and has no theoretical framework within which the role of human societies can be incorporated. Conservation needs to take account of both the geographical and social context within which management operations are occurring. This chapter will attempt to illustrate how conservation of biological diversity is a problem that geography is uniquely positioned to address.
