From a grassroots conservation group.

• Author: Dedina, Serge
• Position: FROM READERS - Letter to the Editor

I am the former founding director of The Nature Conservancy's Baja California/Sea of Cortez Program, and currently the executive director of a small grassroots conservation team that helps local NGOs and rural communities in Mexico to strengthen and protect communal land and marine tenure. Mac Chapin should be applauded for urgently calling for large NGO accountability in the arena of global conservation.

It concerns me that global conservation NGOs are largely absent from the front-line battles to protect local resources from predation by governments, speculators...