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Science 21 September 2001:
Vol. 293. no. 5538, pp. 2207 - 2208
DOI: 10.1126/science.1061626
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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENT:
Can We Defy Nature's End?

Stuart L. Pimm* Márcio Ayres, Andrew Balmford, George Branch, Katrina Brandon, Thomas Brooks, Rodrigo Bustamante, Robert Costanza, Richard Cowling, Lisa M. Curran, Andrew Dobson, Stephen Farber, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Claude Gascon, Roger Kitching, Jeffrey McNeely, Thomas Lovejoy, Russell A. Mittermeier, Norman Myers, Jonathan A. Patz, Bradley Raffle, David Rapport, Peter Raven, Callum Roberts, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Anthony B. Rylands, Compton Tucker, Carl Safina, Cristián Samper, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Jatna Supriatna, Diana H. Wall, David Wilcove

Extinctions stand out amid the global catalog of environmental insults. Extinctions are irreversible and their rate is high and accelerating. Preventing them, however, is neither impractical nor economically impossible. It does require innovative strategies. Implementation raises a number of controversial questions, which are addressed here.

S. L. Pimm is at the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, MC 5556, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. Other author addresses are available on Science Online (3).

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: StuartPimm{at}aol.com

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