This painting explores themes of the boundary between fact and fiction, similarly to Stanners' work The Networker, also part of the exhibition Wild Life. The composition features a shelf displaying a bird alongside the skeletal remains of an unidentifiable creature, juxtaposing the scientific with the mythological. The title, Fortress Conservation, references the term used to describe the last wild spaces on Earth, areas preserved through human bureaucracy. The work raises the question of whether these spaces remain truly wild or if they are now human constructs.