The Unnatural Kingdom:  If technology helps us save the wilderness, will the wilderness still be wild?

In the New York Times Sunday Review, Daniel Duane reflects on the use of cameras and tracking devices to manage “wilderness”:

wildlife managers everywhere are seizing more and more of nature’s relevant dials — predator and prey alike — and turning those dials to keep nature looking the way we want it to. Undeniably in the service of good, this technological revolution in the human relationship to wildlife is also accelerating the ancient human project of bringing the physical world under our control.

Source: Daniel Duane, “The Unnatural Kingdom: If technology helps us save the wilderness, will the wilderness still be wild?” New York Times Sunday Review (11 March 2016).

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