Contents

* The freshwater challenge: Drain or gain
* The freshwater biodiversity crisis
* Looking for the hotspots
* Barriers to diversity
* World Commission on Dams
* Use and abuse of deltas
* Fisheries: Enemies of biodiversity or tools for conservation?
* West Africa's fisheries:Breaking tradition
* Wetland conservation in southern Sonora
* Freshwater management:From conflict to cooperation
* Waza-Logone
* IUCN responds:The Freshwater Initiative
* World Roundup
* Headquarters
* IUCN Commissions
* News from the Commissions
* Playing the music of the global family: An interview with M. Koch-Weser
* Global Biodiversity Forum 11/12:Working with the Conventions
* In print