International Wildlife articles from January 2000

International Wildlife archives from January 2000

This Issue: The Power of a Cuscus On Our Magazine's Cover.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The fuzzy marsupial on our front cover-an animal called the bear cuscus-is our way to call attention to the first story in our issue: an appreciation of the fig. As researcher Margaret Kinnaird reports (page 12), figs drive the behaviors of...

GETTING THINGS DONE IN CUBA: From raising crocs to saving parrots, a few resourceful naturalists are proving that lack of money is no barrier to success.(environmental activists in Cuba)
January 1, 2000... A particularly noisy jeep rattles down a rutted swamp trail. Held together by bailing wire and duct tape, as are most vehicles in Cuba, it squeaks and groans like a covered wagon as it lurches through a corridor of soaring sabal palms. Inside,...

Ghosts! Haunting photographs of museum specimens tell the tale of vanished island species.(extinct birds, such as Delalande's Coucal, the Flycatcher, and the Grosbeak)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... They are all that are left. Tired feathers and forgotten skins relegated to museum bins. Reminders of what once was but can never be again. Testament to the awful truth that a living species, once extinct, will never return. Ghosts! But there...

Nature's Voice: Sketching Bird Uniforms.(wildlife artist Roger Tory Peterson helped simplify bird identification)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER one of my favorite books was Ernest Thompson Seton's Two Little Savages. The part I remember most clearly is where the young hero, Yan, discovered some mounted ducks in a dusty showcase. He had a book which showed him how...

BIG ON FIGS: In Indonesia, one nutritious fruit is the wild fuel that runs the rain forest.(figs, a favorite food of animals in the rainforest, have a high calcium content)
January 1, 2000... The sun has barely risen over the sea, but its hot rays are already bathing the steamy forests of Tangkoko Nature Reserve on Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. The morning is heralded by a cacophony of wild calls and screeches in the forest canopy...

Members' Mailbox.
January 1, 2000... The September/October issue included an article on the impact of human population on Earth's natural systems, a story timed to the birth of the planet's six billionth person on October 12. Here are some reader reactions: Changing Momentum...

The Action Report.(environmental news)
January 1, 2000... Reducing Toll from Coal: NWF Targets Nation's Dirtiest Power Plants The emissions that spew from the nation's oldest coal-fired power plants are harming wildlife, even continents away, as well as threatening human health and destroying...

AND THEN THERE WERE 84,000: The return of musk-oxen to Canada's Banks Island in recent decades is just one chapter of a beguiling Arctic mystery.
January 1, 2000... When Canadian biologists Tom Manning and Andrew Macpherson set out to spend the spring and summer of 1952 surveying the wildlife of Banks Island, they didn't expect to find musk-oxen. Although the shaggy mammals had once inhabited the High...

The NWF View: Warning Beneath the Sea.(report illustrates the impact of global warming on coral reefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Wintertime often brings thoughts of tropical getaways, with warm oceans and colorful coral reefs not far from shore. But reality is now intruding on this beautiful image in a frightening way because the coral reefs are in trouble. We've...

RETURN OF THE BONE EATERS: Biologists are helping the bearded vulture come back to old haunts.
January 1, 2000... FROM A VALLEY in northern Italy's Stelvio National Park, Fulvio Genero peered through a spotting scope at the snow-frosted dolomite peaks marking the border with Switzerland. There, at the edge of a crevice high on a sheer rock wall, sat the...