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SUMMARY:Headstarting Futures – Ecological Anxiety and Divergent Prospect
 s for Curlews\, Cranes\, Corncrakes and Godwits - Felix Clarke (Edinburgh)
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CONTACT:Tom Fry
DESCRIPTION:The last 15 years has seen multiple conservation translocation
 s of avian species in the UK\, alongside which there has been a proliferat
 ion in the number of terms used to describe these interventions (previousl
 y commonly referred to under the umbrella of reintroductions). One term wh
 ich has seen significant uptake is headstarting – a technique originally
  coined for marine turtle conservation in the 1970s. Headstarting projects
  attempt to boost wild populations by human-rearing either captive-bred or
  wild born animals through their most vulnerable (early) life stages befor
 e releasing them. This talk focuses on four species that have been\, or ha
 ve been described as being\, subject to headstarting projects in the UK: c
 urlew\, crane\, corncrake and black-tailed godwit. Reintroduction projects
  have often been accused of ‘facing backwards’ with an overreliance on
  ambiguous historical baselines. Whereas I argue that headstarting project
 s focus’ is firmly on divergent futures. Headstarting is often justified
  because of its perceived ability to hold open possibilities for future av
 ian presence\, despite ongoing massive declines. These future-based justif
 ications serve to partially obscure the actual causes of bird declines\, w
 hile potentially masking ongoing injustices contained within headstarting 
 projects themselves.
LOCATION:Department of Geography\, Small Lecture Theatre
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