http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/letters/Dynamic-world-of-nature.3762982.jp



Angus Macmillan
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All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident. 
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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The author of the letter was quite right, IMO, in pointing out that nature 
is not static and that ecosystems tend to be in a state of flux. But 
conservationists wishing to 'restock' a geographical area with a species 
which once used to occur there naturally are required by convention (Bern?) 
to ensure that they will only be introduced to ecosystems which will support 
them, and that the changes the new population is likely to induce in the 
ecosystem will not be harmful to established species.

Hence the changed and changing nature of the world ought to be taken into 
account, FWIW :-)

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The two subsequent comments make a lot more sense than either the 
original letter or your comment, IMO. The letter contains some very 
muddled thinking on the environment and ecology, which is presumably why 
you agree with it :-))

-- 
Malcolm