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Letter: Letter

Published 12 September 1998

From Jim McNamara

Aren’t Bob Holmes and his experimental ecologists missing a point or two?
Unlike them I do not want to conserve all species because they are vital to
ecosystem productivity, or even because of some airy-fairy moral or aesthetic
reasons.

I want every last one because if we lose it, we can never use it. It’s as
simple as that.

Two Wells, Australia

Issue no. 2151 published 12 September 1998

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