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      Belgian botany in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: from plant hunting to nascent nature conservation

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          The activities and archives of the Société royale de Botanique de Belgique are a rich source of information about the early decades of conservation in Belgium. In the second half of the nineteenth century botanists witnessed important changes in the landscape that also affected botanical diversity. As plant hunters they could have a real impact on the populations of rare plant species. In the final years of the nineteenth century a new generation of botanists added proposals for practical nature conservation in the form of nature reserves to the lamentations about the loss of beauty and biodiversity. The focus of their attention was on “wild” nature and habitats that so far had escaped from human disturbance. With Pour la Protection de la Nature en Belgique (1912), Jean Massart gave conservation in Belgium a program to work with, but in the next decades achievements were minimal. And yet, during the years that preceded Pour la Protection… little seemed to augur these hard times ahead for Belgian conservation .

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                JHES
                JHES
                Journal for the History of Environment and Society
                Brepols Publishers
                2506-6730
                2506-6749
                January 2016
                : 1
                : 1
                : 37-63
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                J.JHES.5.110828
                10.1484/J.JHES.5.110828
                66bc3b80-6755-4816-b152-1d6cd4023a83

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                Agricultural ecology,Environmental change,Environmental studies,General social science,General environmental science,Urban, Rural & Regional economics

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