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Most conservationists have been reluctant to open their eyes to discover nature's resilience and powers of recovery - still less to recognize the role of specialist colonizers and nonnative species in that process. This blinkered approach complicates their wish to protect and revive nature by excluding a wide range of options for rebooting the wild. ... Nature has little regard for conservationists' love of what they see as the pristine. For nature, it matters not a jot where a species comes from, if it does a useful job. If conservationists don't wake up quickly, they risk becoming the enemies of nature rather than its saviours.