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This article appeared in the October 27, 2008 edition of The Nation.

October 8, 2008

Coming of Age in Papua New Guinea

Arlington, Va.

Mark Dowie's "The Wrong Path to Conservation" [Sept. 29], a distorted account of an ambitious project that encountered difficulties but also accomplished important results, failed to help your readers understand both the challenges and promise of modern conservation work.

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About Mark Dowie

Mark Dowie, an investigative historian based in Point Reyes Station, California, is the author of the forthcoming Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples. more...

About D.D. Guttenplan

D.D. Guttenplan, who writes from The Nation's London bureau, is the author of American Radical: The Life and Times of I.F. Stone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). more...
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