Contents

Editor’s Note and Letters 3
The Lead 5

• Ray Hilborn: Apocalypse Forestalled — Why All the World’s Fisheries Aren’t Collapsing

Land’s End? The Future(s) of Protected Areas 10

• Eddie Game: How to Renew Conservation’s One Big Idea (online version available for comment)
• Nigel Dudley: Catch-22: Protected Areas and the Future of Life on Earth (online version available for comment)
• Silvia Benitez: Why Protected Areas are Still Innovative
• Rob McDonald: Not the Beginning of the End, But the End of the Beginning (online version available for comment)

Articles 20

• Craig Groves: Where We’ve Been and Need to Go with Measures at the Conservancy
• Craig Leisher: Conservation and Poverty — Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? (online version available for comment)

Peer Review: Jay Odell 24
Viewpoints 29

• Peter Kareiva & James Fitzsimons: Making Sense of ‘Biodiversity’ Nonsense:
• A Call for a Return to Species
• Jonathan Adams: How the Conservancy Can (Finally) Enter the Digital Age
• Erik Meijaard: Fear and Conformity in Conservation

New Conservancy Research 38

• Joe Fargione: The Ecological Impact of Biofuels (online version available for comment)

Science Shorts 41

• Rob McDonald: Are Cities (and Babies) Bad for Climate Change?
• Evan Girvetz: Son of Dust Bowl?

News, Announcements and Orgspeak 44
Conservancy Publications 45