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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightranger" data-source="post: 1601756" data-attributes="member: 64473"><p>At the end of the day, this is a very good way of summing up because it would suggest we have learned absolutely nothing nor taken up the warnings. However, I think I may be being overly pessimistic if I was to suggest that is the point we have reached. In many ways, Chris may have sounded an alarm bell over the possibility of complacency or at least, not taking everything for granted. I am a keen fan of what the DWCT do despite failing to get a job there a few years back in circumstances that had a profound effect on my life - the consequence of abandoning species preservation would invalidate at least half of their work along with the WWF and to a lesser extent, the Born Free Foundation. It could be argued that Chris was championing the work of organisations like the RSPB, WWT and Wildlife Trusts but that may be too simplistic because captive breeding for reintroduction is a useful tool that rests alongside species preservation. As has been pointed out, it is not easy to run with comparisons but it is difficult not to see a point where captive breeding links arms with species preservation.</p></blockquote><p></p>