International Wildlife articles from November 2000

International Wildlife archives from November 2000

Holy Land Healing: On a Raptor's Wings
November 1, 2000... As we shipped this issue to the printer earlier this fall, the long- festering feud between Israelis and Palestinians over how to divide up the Holy Land was reaching a head. By the time the magazine arrives at homes around the world, the...

NWF, Affiliates Score Victories in 'Greening the Corps' Campaign
November 1, 2000... In ongoing NWF effort, the "Greening the Corps" campaign, whose aim is to halt the most damaging and wasteful U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' water projects, has begun to pay off in both important victories and potential for future reforms. In...

NWF, Affiliates Want Sage Grouses Declared 'Sensitive'.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NWF and its affiliates in California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, South Dakota and Wyoming have asked the U.S. Forest Service to designate the northern sage grouse and Gunnison sage grouse as "sensitive species" on agency land in those states....

Women's Network Finds Creative Ways To Spread Message.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... The Alaska Women's Environmental Network, a project of NWF's Alaska office, has been exploring new ways to link some 1,000 women conservationists throughout the state. Not surprisingly, an Internet listserv is the network's most popular...

NWF Celebrates Thirtieth Year Of Family Summits.(NatureLink Family Summits)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... This year's NatureLink Family Summit on Michigan's Upper Peninsula marked the 30th anniversary of a popular NWF program that offers outdoor adventure and education at some of the nation's most scenic spots. Over the years, some 30,000...

Dam Removal To Pave Way For Restoring River.(removal of the Rodman Reservoir dam near Ocala, FL)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... After decades of political wrangling, one of Florida's oldest environmental battles is about to be resolved for the benefit of both people and wildlife. In a move long sought by NWF, the Florida Wild-life Federation and the state group's...

Brazilian Activists Log Major Victory For Amazon Forests.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... Environmental groups from Brazil, many of which NWF has advised over several decades, have for the first time defeated powerful attempts by ranchers to extend their control over the fate of Amazon forests. The landowners tried to push...

Trade Partners Agree To Involve Public in Dialogues.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... In a major victory for NWF and other environmental groups from the United States, Canada and Mexico, environment ministers of the three countries have agreed to end secret negotiations on environmental enforcement matters throughout North...

Plan To Save Prairie At Old Ammo Plant Gets NWF Backing.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... NWF and one of its affiliates, the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, are strongly supporting a local coalition's plan for protecting and restoring more than 7,000 acres of former Wisconsin prairie. A remnant of the historic Sauk Prairie, the...

Keep the Wild Alive Grant Aids Restoration of Rare Hawaiian Plants.(silversword plants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2000... With the help of a $6,700 grant from NWF's Keep the Wild Alive[ordinal indicator, feminine] program, the Hawaiian Silversword Foundation is growing 6,000 seedlings of two endangered silversword plants, that will then be transplanted to their...

AMBASSADOR FOR PEACE - How the Lesser Kestrel Is Bringing Palestinian and Israeli Kids Together in the Holy Land
November 1, 2000... CATCHING Nader Al-Khateeb and Dan Alon working side by side, you would never guess that one is Palestinian, the other Israeli. That Al- Khateeb's parents had been forced from their home on a Jerusalem mountain 52 years ago. Or that not too long...

MATERNAL INSTINCTS - For the wild denizens of East Africa's plains, the tie that binds is motherly love.(Illustration)
November 1, 2000... Call it affection. Call it genetic programming. Whatever you call it, the bond between mother and offspring is singular and unyielding. This is true both in our two-legged world and in the four-legged-and serves as one of the most potent...

Caught in A Melting World - Adelie Penguins May Be the Canaries in the Coal Mines of Global Warming
November 1, 2000... FOUR LITTLE HEADS pop up simultaneously in a jagged pool of blue-black water surrounded by ice as far as the eye can see. They are Adelie penguins, and the ice defines their existence. Like little torpedoes, the birds-just over 2 feet...

HEDGING BETS WITH FROZEN SEEDS - A Quarter of the World's Plant Species May Not Exist in 50 Years, So in Britain They're Taking Precautions
November 1, 2000... ROSEMARY FITZGERALD spots the first one within 10 feet of where she's parked her car: a bright red berry in a prickly, gray-green bush. This is a good omen. Amateur botanists in the area had warned she might not find any berries at all. ...

Into Thailand's Lost World - When John Gray Discovered Collapsed Island Caves and Pristine Lagoons, He Never Dreamed They Could Be Destroyed by Too Many Visitors
November 1, 2000... YOU'D NEVER FIND the slot between the surging sea and soaring limestone cliffs. But about ten years ago, John Gray did, and now he leads us expertly into this eerie and precarious passage. Pressed down flat against kayak decks, our noses almost...

The NWF View
November 1, 2000... Population and the Environment "Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend," the great conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote. "You cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left." So too with wildlife. Cherishing wildlife in...

In Search of the Tooth Walker - in the Frigid Arctic, Researchers Attempt to Assemble the Puzzle That Is the Atlantic Walrus
November 1, 2000... IT WAS SURPRISINGLY EASY to overlook Rob Stewart and Clement Lanthier as they crawled along the gravel beach of a lonely Arctic fjord in their dun-colored overalls. Then again, when one is keeping extraordinarily close company with several dozen...