International Wildlife articles from November 2001

International Wildlife archives from November 2001

The Action Report - How NWF Is Making A Difference
November 1, 2001... Climate Change Already Altering Ecology of North American Waters MANY FISH SPECIES and aquatic ecosystems throughout North America are showing the effects of climate change, and future impact is likely to be significant unless nations take...

Faithful ... or Not? New Findings on Waved Albatrosses Run Contrary to Everything We Know about the Breeding Behavior of These Long-Lived Birds
November 1, 2001... THE AIR HANGS HEAVY and still, steamy with salt spray and recent torrential downpours, as hundreds of waved albatrosses soar over the unbroken Pacific Ocean to arrive, as they do every year, on the wave- beaten shores of Espanola Island. Save...

What Lurks beneath? A Reptilian Head in a Venezuelan Swamp Masks the Extraordinary Size of a Tropical Serpent
November 1, 2001... "They say that its eyes shine like miniature lighthouses when it crosses a river."--Anonymous SUBMERGED beneath the slow-moving river water except for protruding nostrils and unblinking eyes, a 25-foot-long reptile awaits its prey. Death will...

Letters from the Cabin - A Lone Russian Crusader Takes on the Communist Bureaucracy to Protect a Forest Home of the Rare Black Stork
November 1, 2001... THE SUMMONS came one morning in June 1984. A shiny, black Volga sedan showed up at the tiny school in Novenkoye where Igor Shpilenok taught and whisked him to the local Communist Party headquarters. There, the nervous teacher, then 24, was...

Not Dead as a Dodo - on an Island That's Lost More Bird Species Than Africa and North America Combined, Carl Jones Has a Blueprint for Saving Imperiled Birds Worldwide
November 1, 2001... FROM HER TREE PERCH, a female Mauritius kestrel eyes Carl Jones as if she has spotted a crazy man, and perhaps she has. Yesterday Jones placed plastic eggs in her cliff-hole nest, expecting her to incubate them. Now he wants her to believe that...

Down to the Last Drop - the Fate of Wildlife Is Linked to Water, but Too Many People Are Sucking It Up
November 1, 2001... WHEN XAO LING (pronounced Shao Ling) was a child living in the delta of the Yellow River in northern China, she ran barefoot through irrigated vegetable fields, helping her aunt grow squash, cabbage, beans and melons. "Today, the delta is a...

The NWF View
November 1, 2001... At a Time Like This AT TIMES OF CRISIS, Americans turn to the traditions and values that have sustained us at other critical junctures in our history. This is such a time. Horror has been inflicted upon us. Uncertainty lies ahead. We seek...

This Issue
November 1, 2001... Species on the Edge: Lessons from Far Places TALK ABOUT getting into the story! That camera (below) belongs to field editor Don Boroughs, whom we dispatched to the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The bird perching on his photo...

The Tiger's Best Friend - How a Volatile Indian Named Valmik Thapar Became an Eloquent, and Often Contentious, Advocate for the World's Most Embattled Predator
November 1, 2001... THE PHONE CALL came to Valmik Thapar's elegant home in the diplomatic district of Delhi, India, just a week before the new millennium. A government sales tax inspector in Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of Delhi, had stopped a truck traveling toward...