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International Wildlife archives from July 1996
NWF celebrates conservation win in 1996 Farm Bill. (National Wildlife Federation)
July 1, 1996... The Farm Bill recently passed by Congress represents a major victory for NWF and the wildlife community, which assembled a coalition of diverse groups to fight for conservation measures.
The grass-roots support these groups generated...
My life among wild pinnipeds: a far-traveling photographer reminisces about rugged times spent with seals and sea lions on distant shores.
July 1, 1996... I sat amidst a sea of fur seals, a vast rookery of 100,000 animals at Cape Cross on the coast of Namibia in southern Africa. At first the seals had been just an amorphous, noisy, smelly mass of potentially dangerous animals. But as I sat in the...
The world's water woes: pollution, population and waste are creating dangerous water scarcities throughout the globe.
July 1, 1996... Like many environmental disasters, "this one came in on cat's feet," says Abdisatar Ospanov as he gazes across a scorched, salt-pan wasteland, putting a hand over his brow to shield his eyes from the noonday sun. The table-flat land is...
Giants of the eagle kind: strength, grace, size, keen vision and extraordinary powers of flight add up to an awesome presence.(Cover Story)
July 1, 1996... Ask Alexander Ladigin or Neil Rettig about the gravitational pull of the worlds big eagles.
In Russia's icy Far East, ecologist Ladigin huddles in igloos day after day, winter after winter, watching congregations of Steller's sea eagles...
Surrounded! (civilization is encroaching on Nairobi National Park in Kenya)(Nairobi's Wild Side)
July 1, 1996... Shortly after dawn, a female cheetah raises her spotted face above the tall grasses of Nairobi National Park. Then eight half-grown cubs surface beside her.
"Ahhh, we are in luck," says Senior Warden Simon ole Makallah, the head of the...
Seeing beauty: thoughts from Emerson. (Ralph Waldo Emerson; excerpts from 'Nature')
July 1, 1996... On Health and Regeneration
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street, and sees the sky...