Word: conservationism
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Muir, in fact, wrote the book on environmentalism--and more than one. Our National Parks, The Yosemite and The Mountains of California helped shape the nation's attitudes on conservation. Some would argue that were it not for his impassioned writings, little of the rugged Western wilderness would have survived...
Figure this one: The United Nations is temporarily lifting the international ban on the sale of ivory -- in order to raise money for elephant conservation! The U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species announced Wednesday that three impoverished Southern African countries -- Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia -- would be allowed to...
"While it's generally accepted that conservation sometimes demands the culling of elephants," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "there's a fear that once you rekindle trading in ivory, you create an incentive for poachers." During the '80s, Africa lost half of its elephant population to poachers supplying ivory...
Perhaps because of Europe's deeper suspicions of Big Business, the food fight has prompted a regulatory go-slow on the Continent. One factor is the scare that erupted in 1996 over "mad cow" disease in British beef. Though the disease was caused by feeding animal parts to cows, rather...
That was 1987, and Plotkin was deep in a Venezuelan rain forest. Then director of plant conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, he had heard of a hallucinogen used by Yanomamo medicine men. Made from the leaves, sap and seeds of various plants, the potent snuff might have medicinal benefits...