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2008

	April-June 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 2) Do Trees Grow on Money? After years of failed attempts to merge market economics with rainforest conservation, the US$60 billion carbon market might finally be the ticket. That is, if money is all it’s going to take. by Fred Pearce Identity Crisis Hybridization can be both a creative and a destructive force. And it’s on the rise. Should we embrace it or quash it? by Douglas Fox A Witeness to Violence Long before the Darfur crisis, Michael Fay foresaw that the murderous Sudanese horsemen would not stop at killing elephants. by J. Michael Fay and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	January-March 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 1) Urban Myths Pull predators out of the mix, and a once lush green world turns into an ecological shop of horrors. by William Stolzenburg Ecosystems Unraveling Pristine forests of the Amazon were not encountered in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they were invented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. by Fred Pearce Cancer on a Whole Species The gruesome disease ravaging Tasmanian devils is unlike anything we’ve seen before. by Cynthia Mills and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
2007

	October-December (Vol. 8, No. 4) Saint Ursus Maritimus Icons are about simplicity and clarity. No gray areas. But what happens when the real polar bear clashes with the symbol it has become? by Jim Robbins Wildlife Contraception Charged with downsizing wildlife populations to fit the geography of the modern world, a small group of researchers is out to replace bullets with family planning. by Douglas Fox The Vision Thing Imagine swapping Tony Blair for Winston Churchill. Would it transform the timid politics of global warming? by Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	July-September (Vol. 8, No. 3) Arresting Evidence IState-of-the-art forensic technology is forcing us to face the reality that even our most applauded trade bans and moratoriums aren’t working. From ivory cell phones to shark fin soup, it’s all available—at a price. by Natasha Loder The Last Gladiators How joyful, really, is the resurrection of a species if the modern world cannot find a single haven for it and if it seems doomed to slip into limbo once more anyway? by Scott Weidensaul 10 Solutions to Save the Ocean We asked a select group of innovative thinkers to go out on a limb. with Martín Hall, Daniel Pauly, David Conover, Amanda Vincent, Kimberly Davis, Carl Safina, George Sugihara, Ussif Rashid Sumaila, and Tundi Agardy and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	April-June 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 2) Aliens Among Us Invasive species stand accused of ecological insubordination, mass murder, and other crimes against nature. But the case is far from closed. A Round Table with James H. Brown and Dov F. Sax, Daniel Simberloff, and Mark Sagoff That Sinking Feeling We dig fossil fuel out of the ground, burn it and fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, and then plant trees to soak it back up. If only it were so simple. by Nick Atkinson Writer's Block Earnest, pious, and quite allergic to irony: nature writing has none of the trademark qualities that play well in 2007. So is it time for a change? by Jenny Price and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	January-March 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 1) Forward Thinkers A biologist in Hollywood, an insect tracker, a pair of ecological architects, and the new leader of the world's largest conservation network. Here are a few people worth watching in 2007. by Charles Alexander, Frances Cairncross, Eric Sorensen, and John Nielsen Virginity Lost Pristine forests of the Amazon were not encountered in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they were invented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. by Fred Pearce When Worlds Collide Climate change will shuffle the deck of plants, animals, and ecosystems in ways we've only begun to imagine. by Douglas Fox and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
2006

	October-December 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 4) Us or Them Killing predators stands as one of the most age-old and enduring forms of wildlife management. Even now, myth and politics trump ecology. Is there a way out? by William Stolzenburg Second Chance Cloning could be the Holy Grail of conservation or the ultimate folly. Either way, the fact is, cloning works. by Cynthia Mills Do No Harm The story of the Hawaiian crow is a parable of doing harm by going to all lengths to do good. What role should the ancient advice of Hippocrates play in endangered species conservation? by Mark Jerome Walters and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	July-September 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 3) Evolutionary Tinkering A small group of latter-day Noahs is beginning to explore radical new ways to help species ride out the current wave of extinctions. by Scott Norris Dig Deeper When context is lost, what kind of tales can biological relics tell? Paleoecologists are forcing us again and again to rethink what was once established fact. by Douglas Fox Fish Futures George Sugihara thinks the way fish quotas are set is all wrong. Instead, he wants to tap into people's baser instincts by treating fish catches like tradable poker chips. by Rex Dalton and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	April-June 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 2) Democratizing Taxonomy Imagine a portable DNA barcode scanner that could transform people’s relationship with nature. Could such futuristic technology be to biodiversity what the printing press was to literacy? by Marguerite Holloway Environmental Heresies Over the next ten years, the mainstream environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism on population growth, urban-ization, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power. An Interview with Stewart Brand Get Real Behind the hue and cry over the Kyoto climate change treaty is one nagging but rarely reported reality: even if every nation in the world complied to the hilt, it would hardly approach solving the problem. by Katherine Ellison and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	January-March 2006 (Vol. 7, No. 1) Connecting Flights Never mind the road map for peace. An unlikely marriage between bird conservation and military aviation is thriving on one of the most divisive pieces of real estate on Earth. by Frances Cairncross Bon Appétit Ecologists are devising invasive species control strategies that would make Julia Child proud. by Joe Roman Where the Wild Things Were The recent Nature paper proposing to bring cheetahs, lions, and elephants to North America raised a wild rumpus. But are the critics missing the point? by William Stolzenburg and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
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	October-December 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 4) Oil Change The interests of big businesses, environmentalists, and society coincide more often than you might guess from all the mutual blaming. So who needs to change? by Jared Diamond Four Futures The seeds of the future are to be found in the extremes of the present. So our wildest ideas are the ones that give us insights into the surprises of the next few decades. by Erik Ness The Look of Success In the wake of successful wolf reintroductions, managers who once fervently defended wolves are now faced with killing them. Are we ready for modern predator management? by Jim Robbins and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	July-September 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 3) Code Blue for Conservation Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus say environmentalism’s heart has stopped. But making the movement more “progressive” may finish off the patient. Are there better prescriptions? by Charles Alexander The Protein Gap John Fa is the first researcher to frame the bushmeat crisis as a protein crisis. And his analysis suggests that wildlife activists are behaving like Marie-Antoinette: “Let them eat cake.” by Fred Pearce Point of No Return Evidence is mounting that fish populations won’t necessarily recover even if overfishing stops. Fishing may be such a powerful evolutionary force that we are running up a Darwinian debt for future generations. by Natasha Loder and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	April-June 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 2) Are We Consuming Too Much? The answer seems obvious. But it's not. Paul Ehrlich, Kenneth Arrow and nine other brilliant minds argue that we're worrying too much about how much we consume and too little about how to invest. by Jon Christensen Liquid Assets The Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico is a water factory. Can an ambitious federal program convince water users to foot the bill for the hydrological services? by Katherine Ellison & Amanda Hawn Edge Walking on the Urban Fringe In the face of inevitable development, Michael Klemens is making his stand for conservation where 10 million people dwell. One man's uncompelling is another man's biodiversity. by Kevin Krajick and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	January-March 2005 (Vol. 6, No. 1) Born Again William McDonough, a radical architect, dismisses traditional recycling as tired and inadequate. Instead, he's invented "industrial ecoystems" in which substances and machines are infinitely recycled. by Jim Robbins Pipe Dreams If the twentieth century was the era of the megadam and the ecological destruction of the world's rivers, the twenty-first century could be different. It could. But will it? by Fred Pearce Healing Powers With the finesse of modern market research, a team of undercover conservationists set out to probe the 3,000-year-old demand curve for endangered species in traditional Chinese medicines. by Douglas Fox and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
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	Fall 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 4) Burned Fire is the embodiment of uncertainty, and playing with it is just what Mama said. by William deBuys Tastes Like Chicken Side-by-side taste tests offer clues to stem the bushmeat crisis in Gabon. by Erik Ness Living the Good Life In Britain, conservation now counts as a measure of quality of life. by Nancy Bazilchuk and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Summer 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 3) The Father of All Mass Extinctions There is a good possibility that losses in diversity in the present will surpass anything in the geological past. Facing that specter could shake the very tenets of conservation. by Peter Ward No Easy Way Out Human health, wildlife disease, and conservation are inextricably linked. Yet modern medicine has fostered the profoundly dangerous illusion that we are above or apart from the natural world. by Mark Jerome Walters and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Spring 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 2) What Makes Environmental Treaties Work? Given the way the environment ignores national boundaries, good global treaties are essential to saving it. Yet, it has become ever harder to create treaties that work. Instead of learning from history, we seem doggedly determined to repeat past failures. by Frances Cairncross Degraded Darkness It's tempting to assume that artificial light distresses only a few exquisitely sensitive species. But mounting evidence suggests that disappearing darkness undermines our best conservation efforts. by Ben Harder and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue Sold Out*

	Winter 2004 (Vol. 5, No. 1) Win-Win Illusions Over the past two decades, efforts to heal the rift between poor people and protected srea have foundered. So what next? by Jon Christensen Reflections on the Pond The pond is the universal icon for wetlands. But to Joy Zedler, ponds are the ecological equivalents of fast-food chains, an emblem of the homogenization of the contemporary landscape by Sarah DeWeerdt and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
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	Fall 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 4) Virtual Ecosystems Animated by a few simple yet baffling rules, virtual ecosystems growing in supercomputers bear an uncanny resemblance to real ones. The simulations challenge conventional wisdom about extinctions and invasions. by W Wayt Gibbs Renting Biodiversity: The Conservation Concessions Approach With all the money we spend making conservation pay for itself, we could just pay for conservation by Katherine Ellison and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Summer 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 3) Auditing Conservation in an Age of Accountability Instead of seeing conservation as just a good cause, people are starting to ask “What are your results?” by Jon Christensen Behavior and Conservation: More than Meets the Eye For years, behavioral ecologists have meticuloustly studied the subtleties of wildlife behavior. Their findings reveal information that conservationists can use. by Douglas Fox and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Spring 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 2) Making Conservation Profitable by Katherine Ellison and Gretchen C. Daily The Conundrum of Biological Control Weighing Urgency against Uncertainty by Jason Van Driesche and Roy Van Driesche and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue Sold Out*

	Winter 2003 (Vol. 4, No. 1) Conservation and Conflict Until recently, we have thought of war as a humanitarian issue and addressed environmental damage only as a pert of post-conflict clean up. But it is clear that this approach will no longer suffice. Rules of Engagement for Conservation Lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo by John and Terese Hart Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up Conservation in a Post-Conflict World by Peter Zahler and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
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	Fall 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 4) Thinking Like an Ocean Ecological Lessons from Marine Bycatch by Scott Norris with Martin Hall, Edward Melvin and Julia Parrish Ground Truthing Conservation Why Biological Exploration isn’t History by Alan Rabinowtz and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Summer 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 3) Context Matters Considerations for Large-Scale Conservation by Reed Noss Old Science. New Science Incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Contemporary Management by Chuck Striplen and Sarah DeWeerdt and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Spring 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 2) Informed Decisions Conservation Corridors and the Spread of Infectious Disease by Leslie Bienen Agriculture versus Biodiversity Will Market Solutions Suffice? by Richard Manning and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue Sold Out*

	Winter 2002 (Vol. 3, No. 1) What Really is an Evolutionarily Significant Unit? The debate over integrating genetics and ecology in conservation biology by Sarah DeWeerdt The Fallacy of Passive Management Managing for firesafe forest reserves by James K. Agee and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue Sold Out*
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	Fall 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 4) Rethinking Insects What would an ecosystem approach look like? by Timothy D. Schowalter, with Jay Withgott Turning the Ship Around Changing the policies and culture of a government agency to make ecosystem management work by Jennifer M. Belcher and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue Sold Out*

	Summer 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 3) Designing Marine Reserve Networks Why Small, Isolated Protected Areas Are Not Enough by Callum M. Roberts, Benjamin Halpern, Stephen R Palumbi, and Robert R. Warner Stone-Age Minds at Work on 21st Century Science How Cognitive Psychology Can Inform Conservation Biology by Judith L. Anderson and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Spring 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 2) Safe Harbor Agreements Carving Out A New Role for NGOs by Michael J. Bean, J. Peter Jenny, and Brian van Eerden Selecting Effective Umbrella Species by Erica Fleishman, Dennis D. Murphy, and Ronald P Neilson and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue

	Winter 2001 (Vol. 2, No. 1) Guilty until proven innocent Preventing nonnative species invasions by Jason Van Driesche and Roy Van Driesche Nectar Trails of Migratory Pollinators Restoring corridors on Private Lands by Gary Paul Nabhan and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue Sold Out*
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	Winter 2000 (Vol. 1, No. 1) Threads of Continuity Ecological disturbance, recovery, and the theory of biological legacies by Jerry F. Franklin and others Making Collaboration Work Lessons from a comprehensive assessment of over 200 wide-ranging cases of collaboration in environmental management by Steven L. Yaffee and Julia M. Woodolleck and more... see the full Table of Contents >>	check box to order this issue
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