Des tortues exotiques en ville : évaluation, perceptions et propositions de gestion à Strasbourg, France
Résumé
The threats to biodiversity lead us to reflect on the meaning we give to the invasive potential of
exogenous species and to their management. The disconnection of urban dwellers from nature
complicates the human - nonhuman relationships that we invite to think in terms of
multispecific anthropology. The latter questions the forms of living together and leads us to
examine how societies deal with the reception or the exclusion of species considered invasive.
We studied exotical turtles found in two parks of Strasbourg with a double naturalistic and
ethnological approach. More than 60 individuals from eight exotic turtle species have been
contacted during the summers of 2017 and 2018. The shared opinions on the relevance of their
presence reveal a certain embarrassment of the 87 informants. Turtles represent a factor of
attraction and reconnection with nature but their exoticism questions or worries. This exotism
invites us to confront the values attributed to them in order to reconsider the methods used to
manage our environments. Once informed by the investigator about the origin and the invasive
potential in the natural environment, the majority of users recommend the extraction of the
turtles towards dedicated places, but the idea of their destruction is globally rejected. The
carefull analysis of discourses points out to nuanced or perplexed postures on the legitimacy of
humans to govern nature. More broadly, the relationship between city dwellers and the Nature
or even Otherness is questions by these exotical turtles in our urban green parcs.
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