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For $300 to $450 a week, plus room and board, plus credit in the Americorps program, being a crew leader with the Vermonth Youth Conservation Corps is a pretty cushy job.
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...
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...
Turtles, inert and uncuddly, lag behind whales and pandas in the race for wildlife-conservation publicity. So they're lucky to have Peter Pritchard as a cheerleader. Born in England and educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where he earned his Ph.D. in zoology, Pritchard, 56, has...
Pritchard's conservation goals include coming up with the first reliable count of the number of female sea turtles still alive in the world. And then, of course, there's the unusual. The Guyana government is negotiating with a Texas firm to build a commercial space port to launch communications...