Résumé : |
It is fashionable, nowadays, to talk about conservation biology, whoever you are, researcher or manager of a protected area. Everybody knows that conservation is a true science, with its specialized journals, its scientific societies and its textbooks.
However, the coupling of words “conservation biology” holds two ambiguities :
(1 ) it focusses on science, but a science of action — a “crisis discipline” as written by Michael Soulé ;
(2) conservation biology is not just biology.
Taking into account these two ambiguities leads to a true revolution in the usual thinking about science. In the field of conservation, such an upheaval asks for a dialogue between scientists and wildlife managers for both parts : research obtains more relevance and conservation more efficiency. |