Ex situ conservation is the most horrible of horrors to many conservationists. A worldwide group of conservation biologists proposes that humans may need to assist plants and animals threatened with extinction by global climate change to find new habitats. Reports on this paper can be found in various newspapers, among which is the Los Angeles Times, at: http://ajc.com/news/content/… The original article can be found on the Science Magazine web site at http://sciencemag.org/cgi/content/… This is going to be a very inflammatory subject for a long time to come. I see it as a fundamental conflict between realists and romantics. I would guess that there will never be much agreement on this subject, but we should all start thinking seriously about this matter, nevertheless. Jim Shields ************************************************* Jim Shields USDA Zone 5 Shields Gardens, Ltd. P.O. Box 92 WWW: http://www.shieldsgardens.com/ Westfield, Indiana 46074, USA Tel. ++1-317-867-3344 or toll-free 1-866-449-3344 in USA