ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows that the key to safeguarding nature is to concentrate, not upon the safeguarding of the species themselves, but upon the safeguarding of the opportunity for speciation. It suggests that the only realistic way of achieving the conservationists' aim of safeguarding nature is through the actions of the 'thinking interventionist'. The book also shows that there are reasons to proactively protect species that can be said to belong in an ecological community. Yet once conservation acknowledges the different but equal value of common species, wildlife rehabilitation practice takes on new conservation meaning and worth. In aiming to safeguard nature, the new conservation seeks to secure the opportunity for speciation through safeguarding wildness. The evolutionary roots of caring are arguable in the mother-infant relationship.
