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  • 1 - Historical Context

  • from Part I - Maintaining Populations of Featured Species: A Utilitarian Approach to Conservation
  • Bertie J. Weddell, Washington State University
  • Book:
    Conservation in the Context of a Changing World
    Published online:
    28 September 2023
    Print publication:
    12 October 2023, pp 15-37
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    In early human societies, community norms specified where and how living resources should be used within sacred groves and in exploited places. Many rulers of ancient and medieval societies issued decrees reserving game and other wild resources for royalty and limiting peasant uses. Colonial rulers criminalized Indigenous uses of wild species and privatized and commercialized landscapes. Intensive exploitation led to the depletion and extinction of many species and laid the foundation for formal conservation. Concern about deforestation in colonial India led to early forest reserves. The utilitarian disciplines of wildlife management, forestry, range management, and soil science arose in response to threats to living natural resources due to conquest, including intensive exploitation, habitat alteration, and the introduction of non-native species. These disciplines focus on the exploitation of economically valuable species to protect a long-term supply. Early forest reserves in the USA were set aside to regulate the use of forest resources.