International Wildlife articles from September 2000

International Wildlife archives from September 2000

Pets, Chimps and Sport: Bringing Culture to Wildlife
September 1, 2000... Pets are deeply ingrained in the cultures of Central America-not just dogs and cats, but creatures plucked from the wild. In Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, you can easily buy wild animals on the street. To get a better sense of what this...

NWF's Smart Growth Campaign Targets Impact of Urban Sprawl on Wildlife
September 1, 2000... Protecting wildlife and habitats at greatest risk from uncontrolled development on the outskirts of U.S. cities is the goal of NWF's new Smart Growth and Wildlife campaign. Sprawl is one of the leading causes of species decline in this...

Decision Will Force Governments To Act On Mine Complaints.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The right of citizens to demand enforcement of coal-mining regulations has received an important boost from the Interior Department's Board of Land Appeals. Ruling on an appeal filed by NWF, the board stated that federal officials must...

On-Line 'Station' Features Green Guide for Campuses.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... College students interested in greening their campuses can get helpful tips from NWF's Campus Ecology Research Station, a new on-line guide and idea book for conducting environmental projects on campus. The station borrows its name from...

NWF Fights Plan To Build Houses On Rare Wetland.(National Wildlife Federation)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NWF is urging the state of Michigan and the Army Corps of Engineers to deny permits for a road that would enable developers to build 25 homes in a remote coastal wetland on the shores of Lake Superior. Open wetlands near beaches are a...

Missouri 'Lek Trek' Highlights Values Of Vanishing Prairie.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... The Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM), one of NWF's affiliates, is part of a Grasslands Coalition sponsoring a statewide walk to publicize the importance of prairie ecosystems. Called the "Lek Trek" after the term used for the...

Fact Sheets Link Population Growth, Wildlife Loss.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Did you know that world population has grown more since 1950 than in the previous four million years? That's just one of the startling statistics in a new series of publications from NWF's Population & Environment Program that highlight...

Road Spurs NWF Call For Development Ban Near Alaska Sound.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... Concerned that a newly opened road will bring get-rich-quick development on the shores and waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, NWF is urging the state to impose a development freeze until it has an adequate management plan for protecting...

Court Upholds Government's Right To Protect Red Wolf.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, has upheld the right of the U.S. Fish and Wild-life Service to protect endangered red wolves that wander onto private lands. By a vote of 2 to 1, the panel of judges rejected the argument of...

Keep the Wild Alive - Students Grow New Homes for Rare Butterfly.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... In a project sponsored by NWF's Keep the Wild Alive[ordinal indicator, feminine] campaign, New Hampshire school kids recently planted 100 wild lupines that they grew in their classrooms as part of a habitat restoration program for the...

Chimp Culture - Separate Chimpanzee Societies Develop Their Own Traditions and Customs, According to Field Researchers from Seven Sites in Africa
September 1, 2000... ON A GRASSY SLOPE above the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania, a female adult chimpanzee, followed closely by her two-year-old son, spots a mound of dirt and a busy train of driver ants scrambling toward the colony. The older female releases...

Finding a Misssing Link
September 1, 2000... Madagascar's fossa ["World's Strangest Predator?" May/June] appears to bear a striking resemblance to the Tasmanian wolf, now considered extinct. Unlike other marsupials, the Tasmanian wolf's pouch was shallow and opened towards the rear of the...

Eagle on the Edge - Living in the Forbidding Terrain of Russia's Far East, Steller's Sea Eagle May Be the Most Impressive Raptor You've Never Heard Of
September 1, 2000... With the moon still high over Kuril Lake on the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia's Far East, Alexander Ladyguin rises in the subzero darkness to light his log cabin's iron stove and prepare porridge. Ladyguin and his wife, Olga, eat quickly, then...

MOUNTAINS UNDER THE SEA - Biologists, Divers, Photographers, Fishermen and Conservationists Are All Being Drawn to the Ocean's Highest Ground
September 1, 2000... Like the tips of icebergs, the tropical Revillagigedos Islands only hint at what is lurking just beneath the sea. Tiny specks of land 360 miles south of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California, theey are the visible peaks of a underwater...

LEARNING TO LIVE WITH A KILLER - the Deadly Funnel-Web Spider Is One Resident of Sydney That Officials Hope Will Shun the Olympic Games
September 1, 2000... WORKING HIS WAY along a gentle slope leading down to a creek bed, Nathan Kirkwood lifts large rocks and clumps of casuarina leaves, searching for burrow entrances with silk trip lines radiating outward. "Funnel-webs tend to excavate in softer...

Global Environment Laggard
September 1, 2000... Climate change has moved from obscure scientific journals to everyday discussions among family, friends and colleagues about the weather getting warmer and storms more severe. Meanwhile, Pacific leatherback sea turtles are plummeting toward...

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE - More Than a Quarter of Nicaraguan Households Keep Wildlife as Pets, but Now the Country Is Cracking Down
September 1, 2000... Tereza Zuniga picks her way across the drifts of litter that line the alleys of a cramped Nicaraguan market-moldering banks of cast-off orange peels, chicken feathers and cookie wrappers that add a pungent edge to the tropical air. She keeps her...