Dear list members the editorial below is scheduled to appear in Conservation Biology. While it does not deal with cetaceans in particular, I would like to share it ahead of print with the marine mammal science community to which I belong. When swordfish conservation biologists eat swordfish Conservation Biology, in press http://www.tethys.org/download/pdf/Bearzi_ConsBiol_InPress.pdf (84 Kb) (...) As conservation biologists, we often expect others to modify their behaviors or quit a job based on evidence that it has negative impacts on the environment. Nevertheless, we are rarely willing to change our own habits, even when we are fully aware of the detrimental effects of our actions. (...) _______________________________________ Giovanni Bearzi, Ph.D. President, Tethys Research Institute Viale G.B Gadio 2, 20121 Milano, Italy http://www.tethys.org/giovanni_bearzi.htm http://www.tethys.org/ http://www.cetaceanalliance.org/ _______________________________________