Dame Georgina Mace is regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the ecology field.
She talks with Kim Hill about how the focus of conservation has shifted from preservation and protection to adaptability and resilience.
“I actually don’t think natural capital is about money.There are things nature provides us for free – clean water, clean air, energy, the soil – and we use the interest on that natural capital in order to sustain our way of life. I think the idea of natural capital is that we should be investing in nature in order to sustain that flow of benefits."
Dame Georgina Mace is in New Zealand to deliver the 2017 Rutherford Memorial Lecture How should we value nature in a human-dominated world? in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin on the 21st, 23rd and 28th of February.
