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Governing The Wild: Databases, Algorithms, And Population Models As Biopolitics, Irus Braverman
Governing The Wild: Databases, Algorithms, And Population Models As Biopolitics, Irus Braverman
Journal Articles
This essay draws on interviews with conservation biologists to reflect on two interrelated aspects of the in situ – ex situ divide and its increasing integration: database systems and population management models. Specifically, I highlight those databases and software programs used by zoos in ex situ conservation settings, and the parallel, traditionally distinct, in situ databases and risk assessment models. I then explore the evolving technologies that integrate wild-captive databases and population models and, in particular, emerging metapopulation and meta-model approaches to small population management. My central argument is that, while still viewed by many as separate, the in situ …
Captive For Life: Conserving Extinct In The Wild Species Through Ex Situ Breeding, Irus Braverman
Captive For Life: Conserving Extinct In The Wild Species Through Ex Situ Breeding, Irus Braverman
Contributions to Books
Published as Chapter 12 in The Ethics of Captivity, Lori Gruen, ed.
Are there “fates worse than death,” to use Kurt Vonnegut’s title? Is captivity one such fate? Captive for Life examines these questions through the lens of conservation biology’s ex situ models of captive management — and captive breeding in particular — for wild animals, and especially for species that have been designated as Critically Endangered or as Extinct in the Wild. Drawing on interviews with leading conservation biologists, the chapter describes the erosion of the distinctions between species management in captivity and in wild nature, often referred to …