International Wildlife articles from January 2001

International Wildlife archives from January 2001

Dangling From High Places: Anything To Get 'The Shot'.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Sixteen and a half stories above the ground, our photographer Lynda Richardson (below, perched on a research tower) swivels around in a metal basket dangling from a construction crane. She's high above Panama's forest canopy, but the...

United States Ratifies Treaty To Protect Imperiled Sea Turtles.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In action long sought by the National Wildlife Federation, the U.S. Senate has ratified a treaty to protect sea turtles in the waters of the Western Hemisphere, virtually guaranteeing that the treaty will now go into force. Under its...

On-line Activism Newest Feature Of NWF Network.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A new feature on NWF Network, an Internet service provider geared to conservationists, now provides new electronic tools for activists to make their voices heard. The feature, called Operation Habitat, focuses on three issues important to...

NWF Newsletter Documents Battle To Protect Lake.(National Wildlife Federation, Lake Michigan)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... NWF's Great Lakes Natural Resource Center has launched an electronic newsletter, Friends of Lake Superior, to report ongoing efforts to save the largest of the Great Lakes. In one recent victory highlighted in the newsletter, NWF and local...

Schoolyard Habitats Initiative To Link Learning, Nature.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Thousands more children and teachers around the country will be able to turn their school grounds into havens for wildlife and laboratories for learning as part of NWF's expanded Schoolyard Habitats program. The new initiative is made...

NWF Goes To Bat For Environment Before High Court.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... NWF has been in the thick of the action on several key environmental cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In the latest case, which will decide whether the Army Corps of Engineers has the legal right to regulate filling of...

NWF Replaces Toxic Lead Sinkers To Save Waterfowl.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... NWF has expanded its popular program to educate anglers about the hazards of lead fishing tackle. The program, which began in Vermont, expanded into neighboring New Hampshire. Residents of the two states were persuaded to turn in 15,000 lead...

Vermont Volunteers 'Adopt' Nest Sites of Peregrine Falcons.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... In the wake of federal delisting of the peregrine falcon, NWF's Northeast Natural Resource Center is stepping up efforts to recruit and train citizens to monitor the birds in Vermont. Since the falcon was completely removed from the federal...

Keep the Wild Alive.(protecting tortoise habitat in Utah)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... With NWF Grant, Utah County Guards Tortoise Habitat Thanks to a $7,000 grant from NWF's Keep the Wild Alive Species Recovery Fund, Washington County, Utah, is constructing a 3.5-mile barrier to keep off-road vehicles out of an area...

VISIONARY OR MADMAN? John Wamsley has set up a profit-making company to protect Aus tralia's native wildlife. Is this the road to salvation, or damnation?
January 1, 2001... JOHN WAMSLEY is an imposing figure. He has a ruddy face and a gray, shovel-shaped beard, and he is larger than life in almost every dimension. He has big ideas, too: He wants to save Australia's wildlife. His language and his message are...

Heaven For Scientists - Eager researchers who troop to Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal find the insects are rampant but the sheets are clean.
January 1, 2001... KATIE MILTON steps from her room just as the predawn stillness is shattered by a ghastly moan. That scream from the treetops is answered by another, and another, until the tropical forest shakes under a thundering bellow. It sounds like a...

China's Crane Experiment - When wealth trickles up, peoples' lives improve, and so do prospects for a revered bird.
January 1, 2001... ATOP A HILL overlooking a vast wetland in southwestern China, Li Zhong- chang and Guan Yuhe joke like old friends as rare black-necked cranes feed alongside farmers tilling their fields. Such good feeling between the two men wasn't always so....

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2001... Poisonous Spiders in America? Those Australian funnel-web spiders that can kill a child within 15 minutes ["Learning to Live With a Killer," September/October] make me uneasy. Are they related to the spiders whose webs I see every morning...

Records In The Rock - Granite carvings in Norway show the role animals played in the lives of hunters in the Stone Age.
January 1, 2001... LATE IN AN EVENING in 1973, a father and his son far north of the Arctic Circle were walking home along the coast near Alta in Norway. Suddenly, in the soft, slanting light of the midnight sun, they saw ice-polished slopes of granite come alive...

Rallying Around An Extinct Antelope - South Africans shot the bluebuck into oblivion, but now they've turned that misfortune into a showcase for conserving big mammals.
January 1, 2001... PERHAPS HIS NAME was Coetzee or Viljoen. Maybe he needed meat for his servants, or a skin rug to cover his cold farmhouse floor. Though the details have been lost to history, it was exactly two centuries ago that this farmer mounted his steed...

Fresh Political Winds.(environmental policy in US and Mexico)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... As the new administration prepares to take office in Washington, fresh political winds are blowing northward from Mexico where President Vicente Fox is inaugurating a new era in his nation's public life. The environment presents both...