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Nature 451, 127 (10 January 2008) | doi:10.1038/451127b; Published online 9 January 2008

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Conservation: academics should 'conserve or perish'

Guillaume Chapron1 & Raphaël Arlettaz2

  1. Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 73091 Riddarhyttan, Sweden
  2. Conservation Biology Division, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, Switzerland

Your Editorial 'The great divide' (Nature 450, 135–136; 2007) underlines the immense gap between academia and practice in conservation biology. This is simply an evolutionary consequence of selective forces at play for academics.

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