International Wildlife articles from March 2001

International Wildlife archives from March 2001

In Ecuador's Galapagos: Bad News With the Good.(environmental news)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... To temper news of species in trouble, we often publish uplifting wildlife stories. Sometimes, though, even the most positive event has a darker side. That's the case in Ecuador's wildlife-rich Galapagos Islands, where 97 percent of the land is...

NWF Grasslands Campaign Pays Off In Wins for Prairie Projects, Species.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The National Wildlife Federation's efforts to preserve America's dwindling grasslands has yielded some important victories in Congress and the courts, as well as in state and federal management agencies: * Funding for Grasslands In...

NWF Participates In UN Ceremony Honoring Volunteers.(National Wildlife Federation volunteers honored by United Nations)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... NWF represented the environmental community at a recent ceremony kicking off the United Nations' International Year of the Volunteer, which celebrates the achievements of millions of volunteers worldwide. Representing NWF were Jim Stofan,...

Montana Affiliate Wants Families, Seniors To Go Wild.(program offered)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Encouraging non-hunters and non-anglers to appreciate the state's bountiful wildlife is the goal of a new education program launched by the Montana Wildlife Federation, one of NWF's affiliates. Known as "Go Wild!," the program offers...

Groups Urge Boost In Worldwide Aid For Family Planning.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... For the first time, NWF has joined with women's organizations and other national environmental groups to generate grass-roots support for increased U.S. aid to international family planning programs. The new alliance, called Partners for...

Backyard Habitat Ideas Available From Web Site.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Interested in creating a wild-life habitat in your yard, at your workplace or at your child's school, but not sure what plants would grow best in your area or what features would work on your size lot? Now you can consult the experts-those...

Alaska Teen Group Speaks Out Against Ship Pollution.(cruise lines)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Members of Alaska Youth for Environmental Action (AYEA), a teen education program sponsored by NWF's Alaska office, are calling for tougher regulation of cruise-ship pollution, which affects many of their coastal communities. After...

NWF Voices Outrage At Plan To Proceed With Pump Project.(National Wildlife Federation; Yazoo Pump project in Mississippi Delta)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... NWF is urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to scuttle plans for the massive Yazoo Pump project in the Mississippi Delta, noting that it would benefit only a handful of people at tremendous expense to taxpayers and the environment. ...

NWF Urges Texas To Include Wildlife in Water Plan.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Ensuring that there will be enough water for wildlife as well as people in a water-short state experiencing dramatic population growth is the goal of the Texas Living Waters initiative launched by NWF's Gulf States Natural Resource Center in...

Keep the Wild Alive - Volunteers Restore Bald Eagle Habitat.(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... Twenty-five volunteers who rerouted a trail in Maryland have shown that people who donate time can make a difference for endangered wildlife. Working with staff from NWF's Keep the Wild Alive[ordinal indicator, feminine] program, the...

Letters.
March 1, 2001... Good Old Mom Thanks for all those intellectually challenging articles in the November/December issue-from peace in the Holy Land to tourism in Thailand. But when all is said and done, what I found most appealing about this issue is the...

ANTARCTIC MYSTERY - Why are southern giant petrels thriving on one peninsula, but declining almost everywhere else?(antarctic bird)
March 1, 2001... IT'S A BLUSTERY DAY on Humble Island, a tiny speck of rock tucked into a bight on the south end of Anvers Island, Antarctica. Snow squalls blow down from Marr Glacier, pasting the north side of the granite promontories that dominate this stark...

LONG JOURNEY ACROSS SIBERIA - In one of the most ambitious drives ever undertaken, native reindeer herders attempt to rekindle a traditional way of life.
March 1, 2001... AS DAWN BREAKS at the edge of a forest in northwestern Siberia, smoke rises from a tepee-style tent. Inside, Gallina Vello tends a wood- burning stove. It crackles and spits as she shoves another log on the fire, while a kettle of freshly made...

Comeback on a Castaway's Island - On a Chilean hideaway named for a storybook hero, an "extinct" fur seal returns from the dead.
March 1, 2001... IN DARK LAVA BEACHES of the Juan Fernandez Islands off Chile, fur seals glide in with the waves. They dive through pounding surf with easy, graceful nonchalance and land smoothly on the coastal rocks before me. I have come here to witness...

Travels With Charlie - In which a savvy entomologist journeys to towering rock chimneys in Venezuela with one of the world's last professional explorers.
March 1, 2001... A call from Charles Brewer-Carias is an experience that increases a biologist's heart rate. "Mark, how are you doing?" he will open with a disarmingly gentle voice. Then in delicious detail, he will describe the expedition he's organizing to...

BABY ONE THOUSAND GOES HOME - On Espanola Island in the Galapagos, a once-embattled reptile reaches a recovery milestone.(sea turtles make a comeback)
March 1, 2001... PARK WARDEN Fausto Llerena proudly shows her off: Cradled in his hands is a tiny tortoise. Her name is Baby One Thousand. Thirty years ago only 14 bedraggled survivors of her kind remained in the wild. Tomorrow she will be the 1,000th...

In Critical Condition.(sad end of an exotic bird and a cat that is going the same path)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2001... The last of its kind in the wild, one blue-plumed Spix's macaw roamed its habitat in northeast Brazil in isolation. No mate, no young, no answer to its call. For 10 years. All others of its line had long been lost to poachers profiting...

BIGGEST ANIMAL THAT EVER LIVED - Scientists attempt to solve the many riddles posed by the blue whale.
March 1, 2001... BIOLOGISTS John Calambokidis and Jay Barlow stand on the deck of the Sproul, a 120-foot research vessel from California's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, staring out over the Pacific. They are 60 miles out to sea, floating over the Cortez...