From T.HAMNER@CONSERVATION.ORG Tue Sep 4 11:30:11 2001 Received: from mxu101.u.washington.edu (mxu101.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f84IUA062996 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:30:10 -0700 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by mxu101.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f84IUA708644 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:30:10 -0700 Received: FROM smta-hub-6 BY mxu1.u.washington.edu ; Tue Sep 04 11:30:09 2001 -0700 Received: from smta-hub-4 ([64.95.130.10]) by smta-hub-6.cgnet.com (PMDF V6.0-025 #46896) with ESMTP id <0GJ500E3WI26V3@smta-hub-6.cgnet.com> for consbio@u.washington.edu; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cihubex.cgnet.com ([198.93.224.181]) by smta-hub-4.cgnet.com (PMDF V6.0-025 #46895) with SMTP id <0GJ500EL8I26FL@smta-hub-4.cgnet.com> for consbio@u.washington.edu; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:30:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 10.0.1.9 by cihubex.cgnet.com (InterScan E-Mail VirusWall NT) ; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:41:37 -0700 Received: by CIHUBEX with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:41:37 -0700 Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 11:24:29 -0700 From: Todd Hamner Subject: RE: Does the public care about species loss? To: "'consbio@u.washington.edu'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable While not directly available on the internet, you may find the section = in the most recent "Conservation In Practice" [Summer 2001] http://cbinpractice.com/CBiP/toc23.html entitled "Does the Public Care = About Species Loss?" interesting. -----Original Message----- From: Guillaume Chapron [mailto:gc-mammal@ifrance.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:45 PM To:=20 Cc: ECOLOG-L@UMDD.UMD.EDU Subject: Does the public care about species loss? Dear all, I would like to know if you are aware of polls available on the = internet bringing=20 some answers to this question: Would consumers buy more products from a company that support species=20 conservation projects than similar products from a company that = doesn't? Ideally the answer should be positive, in order to convince business = that=20 conservation is good for shareholders. Thanks! =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Guillaume Chapron PhD student Laboratoire d'Ecologie CNRS Ecole Normale Sup=E9rieure 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05 France =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D .