Baliunas, Sallie
Lomborg Confronts Newtonian Mechanics ... and Wins!
March 2004
"The Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty ruled that Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, was 'clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice' and shows 'objective scientific dishonesty'," writes Balunias for Tech Central Station. "But the DCSD opinion was vacated after careful assessment by its governing body, the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. That body wisely acted to protect science and its scholars from interpersonal and institutional attacks, which even scientists as noteworthy as Newton have made against colleagues since time immemorial." Reproduced with permission.

Gregg, Dr. Samuel
Dominion and Stewardship: Believers and the Environment
April 2004
"A welcome development of the past thirty years has been the emergence of less-utilitarian attitudes towards the environment by believers and non-believers alike," writes Dr. Gregg of Michigan's Acton Institute. "No longer do serious Christians, Jews or Muslims cite Scripture to legitimize the wanton destruction or misuse of the world that God sculpted out of nothingness." Reproduced with the author's permission.

Higgins, Myles
What Motivates Seal Hunt Protest Groups?
September 2005
"In an effort to stop Atlantic Canada's annual seal hunt, sealing protest groups are using the tactic of pressuring restaurants in the U.S. into boycotting Canadian seafood products. We all hear sporadic news reports on the efforts of seal protests but how much do we really understand about what these groups are doing, and what is the truth behind the hunt itself?" (This article is categorized under Marine Mammals / Seals)

Hutton, Dr. Jon
CITES: Authority Without Accountability or Responsibility
April 1997
"If the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) did not exist it would have to be re-invented, but many of its signatories, from Africa in particular, would prefer to do without than re-invent it in its current form."

Mastny, Lisa
Coming to Terms with the Arctic (PDF format)
January 2000
"By melding ancient hunting traditions with modern political technique, Arctic indigenous peoples present a baffling challenge to environmental diplomacy. As the Arctic ecology itself begins to change, the need for a common understanding is growing increasingly urgent." This article first appeared in the January/February 2000 edition of World Watch, published by the World Watch Institute, and is distributed with permission. (This article is categorized under Marine Mammals / Seals)

Moore, Patrick
Environmentalism for the 21st Century
April 2003
"As we begin the 21st century, environmental thinkers are divided along a sharp fault line. There are the doomsayers who predict the collapse of the global ecosystem. There are the technological optimists who believe that we can feed 12 billion people and solve all our problems with science and technology. I do not believe that either of these extremes makes sense. There is a middle road based on science and logic, the combination of which is sometimes referred to as common sense."

Murphree, Prof. Marshall
Interview with Man In Nature
August 1998
In the last two decades, sustainable use has evolved from being a marginal philosophy to a mainstream tool, both for human development and for conservation, and in the process has brought these related fields closer together than ever. No one has done more to bring about this transformation than Prof. Marshall Murphree. In 1994, Murphree became the inaugural chair of the Sustainable Use Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

North, Richard D.
The Hunt At Bay; A Paper on Stag-Hunting
October 1999
"Deer hunting involves many of the issues involved in the far more common fox or hare hunting: cruelty to animals, class warfare, traditional pleasures under threat, the conflict between the welfare of individual animals and welfare of whole populations. ... Still, the case that deer hunting is unacceptably cruel is not certain and it is certainly not, finally, a scientific one. This is demonstrated by the inadequacy of the scientific case which opponents of hunting put and the inadequacy of the link between the scientific case and the moral arguments." Commissioned and first published by the Wildlife Network, and reproduced with permission of the author. (This article is categorized under Deer)

Shepherd, Jim
One to Watch at The Sierra Club
November 2003
"This latest update concerns The Sierra Club, [America's] oldest, largest, and arguably, most effective grassroots environmental group. With 700,000 members, it packs a wallop with two key groups: legislators and the media. And, if you read between the lines, it's headed for a more confrontational activism. From now until 2006, Paul Watson, one of the world's best-known environmental activists (or 'terrorists' depending on your viewpoint), is a member of the Board of Directors for The Sierra Club." Reproduced with permission.

Sopuck, Robert
Eat beef if you care about conservation
January 2008
"Three generations of Thompsons ranch near Carnduff, in southeastern Saskatchewan, and epitomize the generosity, kindliness and rugged independence of ranchers everywhere. His 'little ranch' description belies the 6,070 hectares and 1,000 cows that comprise the Thompsons' T 4 Ranches Ltd." First published in the Calgary Herald, and reproduced with permission. (This article is categorized under Bovines / Cattle)

Stolpe, Nils
Saving Turtles? What Do These Organisations Really Want?
September 2004
"If you've been paying any attention at all to marine fisheries issues, you'll know that a handful of so-called environmental organizations have been making life miserable for just about every commercial fisherman for most of the past decade. ... Primarily funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, they have now turned their attention towards recreational fishing as well. ... Do these organizations, that it would be most comforting to assume were simply being run by out of touch zealots, have anything other than their particular up front fisheries-related goals in mind?" (This article is categorized under Fisheries / Fishing Methods)

Stolpe, Nils
Who, Us? An Examination of Who's Catching What in the World of Fishing
February 2005
"Ever since several Pew-funded researchers had the temerity to suggest that recreational angling could actually be detrimental to the health of fish stocks, recreational fishing advocates have been in a tizzy, vociferously proclaiming to anyone who will listen that 'it isn't us killing all the fish, it's those nasty netters'." (This article is categorized under Fisheries / Fishing Methods)

Stolpe, Nils
Anatomy of an Anti-Fishing Campaign
May 1999
"In their latest assault, the anti-commercial fishing interests are attempting to equate the use of bottom-tending trawls and dredges to the supposed environmental catastrophe called timber clear-cutting," writes Stolpe, a fisheries consultant with the Garden State Fisheries Association. "Through the clever use of words and statistics, they are trying to make it appear as if fishing techniques which have been in use for generations are turning huge areas of sea floor into biological desert ..." (This article is categorized under Fisheries / Fishing Methods)

Tomlinson, Charles
The Myth of the Tree Shortage
September 2004
"Remember the nineties? The radical environmental movement screaming that the world as we knew it was destined to doom because of the nasty chip mills, the clear cut destruction of the forests, the pollution of our waters caused by cutting trees, and all of the other 'chicken little' mantras? ..." (This article is categorized under Forestry)

U.S. Interior Department / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Endangered Species Act "Broken"; Flood of Litigation over Critical Habitat Hinders Species Conservation
May 2003
"Faced with mounting numbers of court orders from six years of litigation, the Interior Department's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will soon run out of funds to designate critical habitat for threatened and endangered species. More important, the flood of court orders requiring critical habitat designations is undermining endangered species conservation by compromising the Service's ability to protect new species and to work with states, tribes, landowners and others to recover those already listed under the Act."

Ward, Simon
The End of Fortress Conservation? Boy Tarzan vs. Rambo of the Bush
June 1997
The old model of conservation, retroactively termed "protectionism", relegated communities to the wings, while outside "experts" became the official guardians of nature. Now there is a new model, based on the philosophy of "sustainable use". So is the old about to give way to the new? In the last few years the protectionist model has undergone a facelift to dress it up as working both for wildlife and people. The author takes a look at two African initiatives on the cutting edge of contemporary protectionism to see how they shape up.Southern African Trumpet, and reproduced with permission.

Webb, Graham
Animals, People and Politics
September 1998
"With the federal election upon us, the politics of wildlife conservation will once again be in the limelight. Based on the past decade, we can expect a cosmetic race for the high moral ground. But if political commentators are right, few voters will really care." Dr. Webb is director of Wildlife Management International Pty. Ltd., a Darwin, Australia-based company providing wildlife management services around the world. Reproduced with permission.

Williams, Ted
Management by Majority: Who should decide if trapping should be banned - the public or wildlife professionals?
June 1999
From 1970 to 1975, the author was information officer with Massachusetts's Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. This article first appeared in Audubon Magazine, and is reproduced with permission.

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