Things have changed. In 1969 when the Convention for the Conservation of the Vicu a was drafted, in an attempt to save the vicu a from its tumbling decline towards extinction, both the science and the philosophy of wildlife conservation were radically different. It is thus a tribute to the prescience of those involved at the time that the rescue plan had, even through the harsh lens of hindsight, a d- tinctly Twenty First Century flavour. After all,...