David Mech cytaty

Lucyan David Mech – ekspert w dziedzinie biologii wilków. Pracuje od 1970 jako starszy badacz dla Department of the Interior i jako profesor w Uniwersytecie stanowym w Minnesocie w Saint Paul. Prowadził od 1958 badania wilków na Isle Royale, w Minnesocie, w Kanadzie, we Włoszech, na Alasce, w Parku Narodowym Yellowstone i w innych miejscach.

David Mech jest jednym z członków założycieli International Wolf Center i zasiada w zarządzie Centrum. Pomógł on uruchomić ośrodek w 1985 kierując się założeniem, iż ochrona wilka wymaga zarówno poznania gatunku przez naukowców jak i przez zwykłego człowieka.

Opublikował wiele artykułów i książek o wilkach. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Styczeń 1937
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“Mr. Ellis is neither a scientist nor an expert on the natural behavior of wolves.”

B.J. King, "Why Are Wolf Scientists Howling At Jodi Picoult?" NPR. (April 19, 2012).

“It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.”

On Jodi Picoult's Lone Wolf, as quoted in Tom Myrick. International Wolf Center Nominates Picoult's Lone Wolf for Scat Award http://www.wolf.org/wolves/news/pdf/picoults_release_final.pdf. IWC Scat Awards. (March 8, 2012).

“In the recent past, wolves were labeled a flagship species or an umbrella, indicator, or keystone species, depending on what conservation market one was trying to penetrate… A flagship species is an attraction to nearly all society's strata, but wolves are not welcomed by all factions of society. With a few rare exceptions, the rural world opposes wolves, so the animal's flagship role is restricted primarily to urbanites or to local areas. Wolves are certainly a powerful flagship species for the conservation movement, particularly that of affluent societies with strong lobbies in large cities, but a true flagship species should be able to move an entire society toward a goal.
Neither are wolves a good umbrella species (i. e., a species, usually high in the ecological pyramid, whose conservation necessarily fosters that of the rest of the chain) in that they can live well on a variety of food resources and in areas with an impoverished prey base. Wolves are not a keystone species either, in that they are not essential for the presence of many other species (e. g., herbivores flourish in areas devoid of wolves). And wolves are not necessarily indicators of good habitat quality or integrity because they are too generalist to be good indicators of the presence of a pristine trophic chain.
The above labels have been very useful in many circumstance and have contributed significantly to wolf recovery. They may still be useful in the future, but we should be aware that they are shortcuts to "sell a product" rather than good scientific grounds on which to build conservation.”

Wolves: Behavior, Ecology and Conservation (2003)

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