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Moss's mission as an elephant advocate often takes her away from the Amboseli fieldwork she loves so much. She spends about three-quarters of her time writing, giving lectures in the U.S. and Britain and raising money, much of which comes from the African Wildlife Foundation in Washington. An updated version of Elephant Memories should be out in May, and she's working on a volume of papers by scientists who have studied the Amboseli elephants. She is also trying to build a $5 million to $7 million endowment, the African Elephant Conservation Trust. That would help give elephants...
Besides his monkey business, Van Roosmalen specializes in medicinal plants (he even apprenticed to a shaman of the Kamayura tribe) and in rain-forest conservation. He knew he wanted to do fieldwork when he studied primates in Holland. There Van Roosmalen clashed with his university professors over the value of observing lab monkeys. "It was like putting a child in a cage and drawing conclusions about all Homo sapiens," he huffs...
...married and not an eligible, single, foreigner. I was sufficiently scared by my friends' skeptical glances and explicit State Department warnings. On June 15, in Logan Airport, all I essentially knew about my plans for the following six weeks was that I was going to do thesis fieldwork in a small city called Comitan, in Chiapas, Mexico. The details of how I was going to reach Comitan, what exactly I was researching, and most importantly, what it was like there, were...
Bunyavanich then spent three months over the summer doing fieldwork in Malaysia researching the role of science in sustainable forest management...
Bunyavanich then spent three months over the summer doing fieldwork in Malaysia researching the role of science in sustainable forest management...