International Wildlife articles from August 1999

International Wildlife archives from August 1999

Selling Caiman Meat: Defining "Sustainable"
August 1, 1999... Killing some individual animals to help save their species might seem a counterintuitive idea, but in the western Amazon, hunting the endangered black caiman (photo, below) may be the key to safeguarding its kind. Intriguing new findings about...

Big Nest, Big Troubles
August 1, 1999... Australia's malleefowl fight through several feet of debris to start their lives, and then their problems just begin At dawn I crept into a canvas blind in the middle of the Australian scrubland, next to a craterlike mound of dirt and...

NWF, Affiliates Sue To Protect Salmon from Four Snake River Dams.
August 1, 1999... The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and two of its affiliates, the Idaho Wildlife Federation and the Washington Wildlife Federation, have filed suit in federal district court, charging that the Army Corps of Engineers is violating the...

Outdoor Experience Helps Heal Abused Hawaii Youngsters.
August 1, 1999... A weekend camp operated by the Conservation Council for Hawaii, one of NWF's affiliates, has helped change the lives of dozens of young victims of domestic violence. Every month for the past year, the council has brought 50 children ages 7-12...

Florida Affiliate Helps Defeat County Growth Plan.
August 1, 1999... Collier County, one of the most environmentally sensitive counties in Florida, has been granted a reprieve from destructive growth, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Florida Wildlife Federation (FWF), one of NWF's affiliates. FWF...

NWF Asks Congress To Pass Permanent Conservation Funds.
August 1, 1999... Along with its state affiliates, NWF is waging a strong effort to persuade Congress to approve permanent long-term funding for conservation--money that would be safe from the politics of annual appropriations battles. "NWF has made securing...

Conservationists Cheer Moratorium On Forest Roads.
August 1, 1999... In a major victory for NWF and other conservation groups, the U.S. Forest Service has announced an 18-month moratorium on road construction on more than 33 million acres of national forest land while it drafts a final roads policy. NWF has...

NWF Volunteers Restore Habitat Of Prairie Chicken.
August 1, 1999... In the first of several conservation projects to aid a variety of endangered species, NWF volunteers gathered recently at Galveston Bay Prairie Preserve in Texas City, Texas, to restore coastal grassland habitat for the endangered Attwater's...

NWF Seeks State Action To Control Feedlot Pollution.
August 1, 1999... Concerned that new federal regulations do not go far enough to control air and water pollution from huge animal feedlot operations, NWF is calling on the states to pass more stringent rules. Some 450,000 cattle, dairy, hog and poultry...

Habitat Plan Improvements Not Good Enough
August 1, 1999... The Clinton administration's new strategy for improving Habitat Conservation Plans fails to address key weaknesses in these plans, say NWF endangered species experts. The plans are land-use agreements between the federal government and...

SmartWood Approval To Boost Supply Of Certified Logs.
August 1, 1999... Another first for NWF's SmartWood certification program in New England means that a better supply of log products from ecologically well-managed forests will reach markets throughout the region. The SmartWood program, which has certified 14...

NWF Fights Plan To Export Water From Great Lakes.
August 1, 1999... It's a strange scenario, to say the least: super tankers laden with Great Lakes water steaming to distant lands where water for drinking and irrigation is in short supply. Yet, water export is becoming a hot issue, not only in the Great Lakes...

Make Parks, Not War.
August 1, 1999... IN A WORLD of uneasy borders, the peace park idea is gaining momentum almost everywhere. Potential park match-ups are under consideration for the Czech Republic-Germany, Greece-Turkey and Russia-Finland, among others. Some of the most...

Investors Can Help Protect the Wild
August 1, 1999... The choices each of us makes in spending and investing our money can threaten wildlife and wild places a world away. But with a bit of effort, we can all change things for the better. The proponents of big, ill-conceived development projects...

The Hunt for Black Caiman
August 1, 1999... Conservationists in Brazil's Amazon parlay a biological discovery into what could become an economic lifeline for local villagers As we skimmed at night along the edge of a lake in the Brazilian Amazon, the headlamps in our canoe...

Dry Times
August 1, 1999... A shrinking water hole in South Africa illustrates the impact of drought on wildlife The previous summer's rains have been poor. It is 1991, and by the time spring arrives, the Luvuvhu River in the Pafuri region of South Africa's Kruger...

Sponges Get Respect
August 1, 1999... The more researchers learn about these strangest of strange animals, the more they want to know The next time you luxuriate in a tub with a piece of natural bath sponge resting on the soap dish nearby, consider this fact: One recently...

Across a Divide
August 1, 1999... On the uneasy border between Poland and Belarus, can a 'peace park' unite distrustful neighbors? Good fences make good neighbors? Try telling that to the rare European bison that live on the border between Po-land and Belarus. There are two...