Species-based or ecosystem-based approaches to conservation practices : lessons from the Port-Cros National Park (South-East France, Mediterranean Sea)

2020

Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000675537200010

Boudouresque C. F., Médail F., Ponel P., Astruch P., Barcelo A., Blanfune A., Changeux Thomas, Chevaldonné P., Cheylan G., Le Diréach L., Martin G., Moussay C., Peirache M., Perret-Boudouresque M., Ruitton S., Taupier-Letage I., Thibaut T.

Belloni B. (ed.), Astruch P. (ed.), Le Diréach L. (ed.), Changeux Thomas (ed.), Boudouresque C.F. (ed.), GECOMARS : International workshop on ecosystem based management, Marseille, France, 4-5 February 2020

Vie et Milieu = Life and Environment, 2020, 70 (3-4), 89-112 ISSN 0240-8759

GECOMARS : International Workshop on Ecosystem Based Management, Marseille (FRA), 2020/02/04-05

For almost 60 years, the management policy of the Port-Cros National Park (PCNP) has steadily progressed, in phase with human impacts, changes in doctrines and goals in the field of nature conservation, what was socially acceptable at a given time, a very active Scientific Council and a gradual shift from species-centered to ecosystem-based management. Here, we illustrate problems faced by a national park, together with responses or practices that are suited, or not, to an ecosystem-based approach. PCNP's doctrine has been to explain that the abundance of species fluctuates naturally, and that we must not be too hasty to intervene, that nature sometimes does things better than humans, that a national park is neither a zoo nor a botanical garden, and the purpose is not to artificially increase the species diversity. The management approach of the PCNP can constitute a source of lessons for nature protection and management.

Sciences du milieu [021] ; Limnologie biologique / Océanographie biologique [034] ; Ecologie, systèmes aquatiques [036] ; Etudes, transformation, conservation du milieu naturel [082]

FRANCE ; MEDITERRANEE

Fonds IRD [F B010082559]

fdi:010082559