[PCA] NEWS: Invasives: A Major Conservation Threat

[Olivia Kwong]

Since the article is copyrighted, I can't distribute it.  If you have 
access to a computer in a local college, you may be able to access it 
there because they may have an institutional subscription to Science.

There are a few links to some press releases mentioning some of the 
content in this blog entry: http://cabiinvasives.wordpress.com/2011/08/ 
I'll post again if I find a free source for the whole letter.

Olivia
CPC/PCA
http://www.nps.gov/plants/

On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Olivia Kwong wrote:

> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6041/404.2.full?ijkey=eQfX7Omx5llbM&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
>
> Science 22 July 2011:
> Vol. 333 no. 6041 pp. 404-405
> DOI: 10.1126/science.333.6041.404-b
> Letters
>
> Invasives: A Major Conservation Threat
>
> A flurry of recent articles call upon the conservation community to
> embrace invasive species. Davis and coauthors propose down-sizing the
> struggle against invasives (1). In the News Focus story "Embracing
> invasives" (18 March, p. 1383), G. Vince suggests that the Galápagos
> "embrace the aliens." In The New York Times (2), H. Raffles accused
> environmentalists, conservationists, and gardeners targeting invasive
> species of being unreasoningly dogmatic and xenophobic.
>
> See the link above to the full text of the rebuttal letter published in 
> Science.
>