Guest post by Roel Slootweg, IAIA member
For whom do we protect biodiversity?
Above: A non-native bird (Western Great Egret) catching an endemic protected fish (Spined Loach) in The Netherlands.
Below: A fisherman in northern Cameroon catching an African Bonytongue (Heterotis niloticus).
The bird is violating the law and shouldn’t be there in the first place; the man is overexploiting a fish stock, but has to eat in the first place.
This is a wicked problem, since the social and ecological experts probably don’t even agree on a problem defintion.
What do you think the problem definition is?
Photos by Roel Slootweg.
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