Anthropogenic climate change represents a wicked problem, both for the Earth’s natural systems and for biodiversity conservation law and policy. Legal frameworks for conservation have a critical role to play in helping species and ecosystems to adapt as the climate changes. However, they are currently poorly equipped to regulate adaptation strategies that demand high levels of human intervention. This article investigates law and policy for conservation introductions, which involve relocating species outside their historical habitat. It takes as a case study Australian law on conservation introductions, demonstrating theoretical and practical legal hurdles to these strategies at international, national and subnational levels. The article argues that existing legal mechanisms may be repurposed, in some cases, to better regulate conservation introduction projects. However, new legal mechanisms are also needed, and soon, to effectively conserve species and ecosystems in a period of unprecedented ecological change.

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气候变化下生物多样性适应的保护介绍

人为气候变化对地球自然系统和生物多样性保护法律和政策来说都是一个棘手的问题。保护法律框架在帮助物种和生态系统适应气候变化方面发挥着关键作用。然而，它们目前的能力很差，无法规范需要高水平人工干预的适应策略。本文研究了保护引进的法律和政策，其中涉及将物种迁移到其历史栖息地之外。它以澳大利亚关于保护引进的法律为案例研究，展示了在国际、国家和国家以下各级实施这些战略的理论和实践法律障碍。文章认为，现有的法律机制可能会被重新利用，在某些情况下，更好地规范保护引进项目。然而，在前所未有的生态变化时期，也需要新的法律机制来有效保护物种和生态系统。