WWF-Nepal Wildlife Trade Control Co-ordinator Diwakar Chapagain says that it is not a battle that will be won quickly.

BBC: Nepal's rhino hunters become the hunted

Brian Dawson, Apil's Wales co-ordinator, told BBC Wales it was unfortunate that "no win, no fee" lawyers often got the reputation of being "ambulance chasers".

BBC: Welsh NHS payments for errors rise 50% in three years

John Booth, director of Eigg Electric, who has been the co-ordinator of the project, said it was one of the achievements following a community buy-out of the isle in 1997.

BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

Seal hunt co-ordinator Roger Simon, while acknowledging it is not a main source of revenue for people in Atlantic Canada, still characterises the commercial hunt as important for fishing communities and for the aboriginal Inuit people further north.

BBC: NEWS | Americas | Canada's seal hunt stokes passion

"It is really difficult to say, " says Kathleen King, collections and science co-ordinator at Kew, where the specimens have been kept in unusually large pots for the first time.

BBC: The stink is upon California

Co-ordinator Chris Blythe, part of the North Summerfield Residents Association, says it is terrific way to build community spirit as well as encouraging the grow-your-own culture.

BBC: Gardeners cool their spending in the big spring chill

Hollie Walker, Scottish Mink Initiative co-ordinator, said the project was as much about ensuring economic security for local communities as it was about protecting Scotland's wildlife.

BBC: American mink 'safe haven' project under way

However, Vivien Kerr, co-ordinator for the UK Thalidomide Society, said that she had yet to be convinced that it was possible for the drug's effects to be felt in the children of original victims.

BBC: 'Second generation' Thalidomide claims

Whether it's Sandy, or the Gulf, or the economy, in a complex modern world acting as a co-ordinator, allowing experts to do their job, may be the most grown-up and effective way of dealing with problems.

BBC: Obama victorious, but not yet the master politician