International Wildlife articles from January 1997

International Wildlife archives from January 1997

Bolivia's outpost of hope. (rain forest protection)
January 1, 1997... Can tiny San Jos turn rain-forest visitors into habitat saviors and provide an ecological model for other communities? When we finally come ashore, the bow of our dugout canoe slides into the sand with a sigh of relief, one that all of us...

Warming up to hot new evidence. (new indicators of global warming; includes related article)
January 1, 1997... A mountain of new science is convincing skeptics that global climate change is here "Gravity is still just a theory, too. Would you like to test it by placing your neck beneath a guillotine?" Ralph Cicerone, atmospheric chemist, University...

Where cats and herders mix. (snow leopards in Tibet and Mongolia)
January 1, 1997... From Tibet to Mongolia, isolated mountain people are giving snow leopards a second chance Deep in a desolate valley in northern Pakistan, where the rocky ground is almost bare of vegetation, half a dozen mountain men sit on a flat rooftop...

How to be an orangutan. (school for captive apes)
January 1, 1997... Biologists in Southeast Asia are attempting to school captive apes in the fine art of life in the wild One of the world's oddest schools sits not far off the main road in eastern Borneo, roughly 30 kilometers (19 mi.) inland from the coastal...

Notes from 'The Outmost House.' (excerpt from work published in 1928 after a year at Cape Cod, Massachusetts)(Transcript)
January 1, 1997... Nature and Humanity Nature is part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of the very...