Word: conservationism
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Three years ago, Alon set out to reverse the decline by lobbying for the preservation of green spaces as feeding grounds and nailing nesting boxes high on the outside walls of homes. He chose older houses that had been refurbished, so that the birds could return to familiar haunts. The...
This year Alon has joined forces with al Khateeb and a Palestinian conservation crew to put up birdhouses in the West Bank. Together they had the wonderful idea of enlisting the help of children--from both sides of the Middle East divide. In February, 50 Arab kids from Jericho and...
An innocent enviro wandering the Web--or an innocent black-hearted polluter--learns to click skeptically. Brave souls who reach www.radio4all.org/anarchy/fakes get a list of "anti-environmental" groups, most of them with wonderfully benign-sounding names: the Abundant Wildlife Society of North America, the California Desert Coalition, the Evergreen...
The wanderer learns a lot about prairie dogs, which are in sharp decline and should be listed as threatened, says the World Wildlife Fund www.panda.org) And about the last Congress, which was insufficiently environmental, according to the League of Conservation Voters www.lcv.org) I download a superb four-part, college-level...
YOU VOTED FOR WHAT? Check out the League of Conservation Voters site, which lets you track how your U.S. Senators and Congressmen voted on antipollution laws or Endangered Species Act revisions. Don't like what you've learned about your lawmakers on Capitol Hill? The LCV has listed their e...