International Wildlife articles from May 1999

International Wildlife archives from May 1999

Dangerous Reporting.
May 3, 1999... In Faraway Places Covering the environment in developing nations can be a hair-raising business. In exposing the relentless and often illegal extraction of natural resources, a journalist in the Third World may find himself cheek by jowl...

Stalking the BLACK-FOOTED CAT
May 3, 1999... A persistent biologist provides the first look into the nocturnal life of a pint-sized predator in South Africa Every muscle in Lamu's small, wiry body tightens. She is now 40 minutes into a nighttime stalk, and her snakelike tail swishes...

Battle for a Wild Garden
May 3, 1999... The good guys are finally winning in a floral wonderland in South Africa High in the craggy mountains of South Africa's Cape at the southern tip of the continent, a helicopter disgorges a uniformed task force deployed to repel an alien...

Why Joey Lozano Is a Marked Man
May 3, 1999... When investigative reporters take on loggers and miners in the Third World, they often put their lives on the line Joey lozano slides down a steep, mud-choked trail in the green-clad mountains that slice across the belly of the Zamboanga...

First Ecomartyr?
May 3, 1999... I was reading with avid interest your article on Chico Mendes and the work his ideals and efforts have spurred in Brazil ["The Assault Continues," November/December]. While Mr. Mendes was indeed a pioneer advocate for sustainable practices in...

What Africans Know.
May 3, 1999... I longed to go to East Africa ever since I was a young girl. The first book I read was Born Free and I was hooked. Last January, this life-long dream came true. I saw the most beautiful place on earth: East Africa. The beauty of the landscape...

Whence the Flytrap?
May 3, 1999... I believe that you will find that Venus flytrap is endemic to about a 65-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina, and does not occur in Michigan, as suggested on page 8 in the January/February issue, in the piece about mining in a...

How to Write Us.
May 3, 1999... Address your letters to "Members' Mailbox," International Wildlife, 8925 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, Virginia 22184 or fax them to 703-790-4544. You can also send comments via e-mail to pubs@ nwf.org. Correspondence should include the writer's...

Carolina Fence.
May 3, 1999... A Habitat That Promotes Both Wildlife, State Pride As a symbol of our heritage, the Carolina Fence is the perfect centerpiece for public and private habitats throughout South Carolina.--Angela Viney, executive director, South Carolina...

State of Montana Slaughters More Yellowstone Bison.
May 3, 1999... Montana is at it again. As this issue went to press, the Montana Department of Livestock had rounded up and sent to slaughter 15 buffalo that wandered outside Yellowstone Park in search of food. The excuse for the killing: The animals...

Lead Poisoning In Loons Target Of Vermont Project.
May 3, 1999... The call of the loon is threatened throughout New England, where populations are of concern in most states. According to studies at Tufts University, more than half of loon deaths in freshwater breeding grounds in New England are caused...

Land Deal Protects Northeast's Most Valuable Wildlands.
May 3, 1999... In what is believed to be an unprecedented land conservation deal, Champion International Corporation, a timber company, has sold 300,000 acres of forest land in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire to the Conservation Fund. EEThe fund, a...

Zoo Exhibit Links Population Growth, Environmental Loss.
May 3, 1999... "Touch the Earth Gently" is the title of a new permanent exhibit in Ohio's Toledo Zoo, being designed with the help of NWF's Population and Environment Campaign staff. The interactive exhibit will dramatize the link between the...

NWF Works To Save Brazilian Reserves From Budget Axe.
May 3, 1999... At the urging of NWF, the Environmental Defense Fund and prominent opinion leaders in Brazil, the Brazilian government has agreed to reconsider drastic budget cuts in environmental programs that conserve forests. Brazil had proposed the cuts...

Rescued Wetland In Alaska Slated As Natural Park.
May 3, 1999... The wetland that spurred NWF's Alaska office to launch its Anchorage Wetlands Watch program is now slated to become the city's first natural park. When developers targeted the Sand Lake wetland, which the city ranks as the most valuable...

NWF Seeks Support For Clinton Land Conservation Plan.
May 3, 1999... From the Florida Everglades to the local patch of green threatened by development, America's wildlands and open spaces are disappearing fast. A $1 billion Lands Legacy Initiative proposed by President Clinton as part of his fiscal year...

Jersey Wetlands No Longer Slated For Cranberry Bogs.
May 3, 1999... Thanks in part to strong protests from NWF and the New Jersey Audubon Society, the Environmental Protection Agency has rejected New Jersey's proposal to grant a general permit for cranberry growers to turn 300 acres of valuable wetlands into...

Idaho Affiliate Seeks To Retire Snake River Dams.
May 3, 1999... The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF), one of NWF's affiliates, has launched a petition campaign to generate support for retiring four Snake River dams--a move that would speed recovery of steelhead trout and several species of salmon. ...

Divided by Politics, United in Flight
May 3, 1999... Can Japan and Russia resolve their differences over the remote Kuril Islands and protect the rare red-crowned crane? On a winter afternoon three years ago, rangers on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido were feeding a flock of...

Trade and the Right Thing to Do
May 3, 1999... Times change. Never has that statement held greater meaning than now, as we speed toward a new millennium under the influence of the world's first truly global economy. Astounding quantities of money and goods pass daily from nation to nation,...

SPLIT PERSONALITY.(intertidal zone in British Columbia)(Brief Article)
May 3, 1999... A look at life between the tides off British Columbia's rocky coast Along the sculpted coastline of British Columbia, the tidal sea alternately bathes and batters a rocky landscape of cracks and crevices, kelp beds and even human-built...

Whale Shark Slaughter.(Philippines)(Brief Article)
May 3, 1999... Regarding your article about whale sharks ["World's Biggest Fish," January/February], last year I stayed for 10 weeks on a remote island in the Visayas/Philippines to document the whale shark slaughtering which was done by one fishing...