In connection with the recent emergence of a new discipline, conservation biology, a new conservation tool has been explored by the scientific community: reintroductions of rare or threatened taxa into nature. This article, which is based on two examples of reintroductions of plant species carried out in France, illustrates how the rationality of such projects, often presented by their promoters as falling within the scope of taxa retained as ‘protected species’, is more socially constructed on technical, strategic and communicational criteria. In this sense, they are either a negotiation or the crystallisation of a variety of objectives. Observation of the construction of the reintroduced flower then makes it possible to observe the reciprocal influences between local networks, rooted in the territories, and global networks.

Following the emergence of a new discipline, conservation biology, a new conservation tool has been investigated by the scientific community: the reintroduction of rare or endangered taxa. This article, which deals with two examples of the reintroduction of plant species carried out in France, illustrates how the rationality of such projects, frequently presented by their promoters as relying on the inscription of chosen taxa on lists of "protected species", turns out more to be socially constructed according to technical, strategic and communicational criteria. In this sense they are the products either of negotiation or crystallisation of various objectives. The observation of the construction of the reintroduced flower therefore allows us to observe the reciprocal influences between local networks and global networks.

En lien avec l’émergence récente d’une nouvelle discipline, la biologie de la conservation, un nouvel outil de conservation a été exploré par la communauté scientifique : les réintroductions de taxons rares ou menacés dans la nature. Cet article, qui s’appuie sur deux exemples de réintroductions d’espèces végétales menées en France, illustre comment la rationalité de tels projets, souvent présentés par leurs promoteurs comme relevant de l’inscription des taxons retenus au rang des « espèces protégées », se révèle davantage construite socialement sur des critères techniques, stratégiques, et communicationnels. Elles relèvent en ce sens soit d’une négociation, soit de la cristallisation d’objectifs variés. L’observation de la construction de la fleur réintroduite permet alors d’observer les influences réciproques entre des réseaux locaux, ancrés dans les territoires, et des réseaux globaux.

Architecture, Western (Western countries)

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