From the editor.

• Author: Kiernan, James Patrick
• Position: Brief Article - Editorial

How do we decide to save something, and why? Reasons for preserving the environment, for example, can take many forms. They can combine a sense of public relations and corporate responsibility. They can reveal a tacit omission of familial duty and the desire to set things right. They can express the pride and patriotic sense of place and a dedication that a unique environment be shared with future generations.

In this issue of Americas, Jeffrey Cohn reports on the efforts to restore bighorn sheep to the wilds of northern Mexico in a project largely financed by CEMEX, the multinational cement company. Vicky Shorr describes how famed Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado returned home to reforest a family farm in the Doce River Valley, and Suzanne Murphy-Larronde explains the wide and successful school-aged educational...