Editor's Summary
19 October 2006
Back to nature?
In aCommentary in Nature last month, Douglas J. McCauley argued that with little evidence to show that market-based conservation works, the time was ripe for a return to the protection of nature for nature's sake. Predictably this has provoked comment, and in Correspondence this week, the issues are aired.
Correspondence: Nature: the many benefits of ecosystem services
Walter V. Reid
Harold A. Mooney, Doris Capistrano, Stephen R. Carpenter, Kanchan Chopra, Angela Cropper, Partha Dasgupta, Rashid Hassan, Rik Leemans, Robert M. May, Prabhu Pingali, Cristián Samper, Robert Scholes, Robert T. Watson, A. H. Zakri & Zhao Shidong
doi:10.1038/443749a