I think there's fairly clear evidence, both internationally and in Canada, that in order to conserve those important ecological processes, and the parts.... In order to protect healthy ecosystems we have to keep all the parts and the processes intact. In order to do that, I think there's pretty clear evidence that we need to both have these core areas of protected habitat, and also have them connected together and nested within a sustainable landscape.
Doing one or the other isn't going to work. We have to do them together. We have to do them in an integrated way, if we really want to achieve our goal of conserving healthy ecosystems—both the parts and the processes—into the future in order to sustain all of us and our human communities.