A challenge to conservationists: Phase II.

• Author: Flavin, Chris
• Position: FROM READERS - Letter to the Editor

Mac Chapin's article in the November/December issue of World Watch has generated the heaviest flow of letters to the editor since we began producing the magazine in 1988. This overwhelming response has led us to publish an unprecedented number of those letters in this issue, including reactions from leaders of the "Big Three" conservation organizations that were at the center of Chapin's story.

As you will see in the letters that follow, both the facts and their interpretation are hotly...