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Shirtless beachgoers carrying buckets and pails and snorkeling gear walked past the woman behind the Serengeti dark glasses without noticing (although the unsmiling muscle-bound guys lurking nearby, with wires in their ears and hiding automatics in their knockoff Jams, should have aroused some suspicions). While her husband golfed to his heart's content (36 holes on one day) and her daughter frolicked with two friends in the Pacific surf, Mrs. Clinton -- who does not golf, who does not do handstands in waist-high water -- remained aloof from island fun. Aides had billeted at the hotel half a dozen...
...redefine our place in -- not over -- nature, accept the role of resident rather than architect and resist the temptation technology affords us to mold a world responsive to our whims alone. Alaska, which once sanctioned the shooting of polar bears from the air, now dreams of creating a second Serengeti, fulfilling the fantasy of those who begrudge nature its sparseness and exquisite balance. This is more than bad biology, and it is sadly fitting that it should befall the wolf. A majestic symbol of the wild and a victim of man's relentless efforts to eradicate what he cannot control...
Situated on Alaska's North Slope just west of the Canadian border, the 19 million-acre refuge is home to several hundred Eskimos, grizzlies, musk-oxen, wolves, migratory birds and a herd of 180,000 caribou, whose majestic spring migration has inspired naturalists to call the preserve "America's Serengeti." But to oilmen and Alaska politicians, the refuge's 1.5 million- acre coastal plain is a potential lode of black gold...
...relatively stupid and uninteresting animals. But they happen to be photogenic and appealing, and they help focus people's attention." Big animals need big swatches of habitat, and so in the process a lot of less sexy species are protected too. To save the African elephant requires saving the Serengeti. That means roughly 5,000 sq. mi. and, as it happens, 400 species of birds, maybe 50 species of mammals and tens of thousands of invertebrates. And the elephants...
...SERENGETI DIARY (PBS, April 12, 8 p.m. on most stations). The ever popular National Geographic specials conclude their season with a look at the people and wildlife of this beautiful East African wilderness...