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Conservation biology: The end of the wild

Nature volume 469, pages 150–152 (2011)Cite this article

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Climate change means that national parks of the future won't look like the parks of the past. So what should they look like?

Imagine Montana's Glacier National Park without glaciers; California's Joshua Tree National Park with no Joshua trees; or the state's Sequoia National Park with no sequoias. In 50 years' time, climate change will have altered some US parks so profoundly that their very names will be anachronisms.

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Marris, E. Conservation biology: The end of the wild. Nature 469, 150–152 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469150a

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