As part of my ongoing interest, education and involvement in conservation and wildlife, I joined the North American Wildlife Society during 2008. Unlike most of the membership who work full time in the industry, my involvement is only part-time and certainly with far less academic qualifications to most of those I interact with occasionally. Even so, the latest issue of The Wildlife Professional magazine (Winter, 2008) caught me by surprise, and I thought required comment. A number of letters to the editor strongly reacted to a previous edition of the magazine and it's stance on climate change. More specifically, one letter states, "… Clearly, climate change is currently not a mainstream area of research for TWS (The Wildlife Society). Although climate change is an important subject, we suggest TWP (The Wildlife Professional) redirect the topical nature of future issues to better reflect our published science while providing practical, objective, and science-based information for practicing wildlife biologists…" Wow ! In my view that is just a remarkable statement to be making in the year 2009, when numerous other publications are dominated by issues around climate and the response required by wildlife managers. In fact the letters in general claim to represent a huge scientific community in the United States. Coming from where I do in South Africa, this reminded me of our previous President Thabo Mbeki and his stance on the AIDS crisis ! I hardly have the scientific credentials to argue details, but just from my limited reading and interest, a view like that on climate change has got be questioned. For example, as a general member of the public, I subscribe to much of the available general reading coming out of Algonquin Provincial Park in Southern Ontario. Amongst their magazines are many references to data on the changing arrival dates of migratory bird species, and the impact on the breeding success due to decreased availability of food with the earlier arrival. As a second example, the changing southern and northern limits of tree species distribution with the current and predicted future average increase in temperatures. If these sorts of issues are not important to wildlife managers and their plans for the future, I am not sure what is. As another example from South Africa, a friend of mine has worked on a mini-thesis as part of a course, examining the current available data on predicted biome distribution, temperature and rainfall changes, and how this should be taken into account when wildlife managers plan burning cycles and regimens. Now all these examples might be taken as small and irrelevant, but if all of that is available to me out of general interest in the topic, surely the main current is that climate change is accepted as a very big thing in our current world, and what are we going to do about it as wildlife enthusiasts and managers?