"... Scientists and conservationists spend much of their life frantically writing documents and recommendations, but little or nothing happens in the real world. Is paper, and then more paper, all that governments really want from us? When will the time for action come? Are we allowing ourselves to be lost in the illusion of doing conservation while in fact we are mostly just producing conservation tools that are rarely used? ..." A recent Conservation Biology editorial expresses the frustration experienced by some of us, based on a personal experience with Mediterranean dolphins. Bearzi G. 2007. Marine conservation on paper. Conservation Biology 21(1):1-3. You can download the article from the Blackwell site at: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/cbi/21/1 Or request it to me. _________________________________ Giovanni Bearzi, Ph.D. bearzi@inwind.it President, Tethys Research Institute Viale G.B Gadio 2, 20121 Milano, Italy tel. +39 0272001947; fax +39 0286995011 http://www.tethys.org/ http://www.tethys.org/giovanni_bearzi.htm _________________________________ Naviga e telefona senza limiti con Tiscali Scopri le promozioni Tiscali adsl: navighi e telefoni senza canone Telecom http://abbonati.tiscali.it/adsl/