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These efforts, however, have not silenced critics. Says Ben White of the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, whose members take to the seas to disrupt whale and dolphin captures: "Yes, captive dolphins educate, but it's bad education. It tells people it is O.K. to keep these animals and...
But it is difficult to elicit farmers' cooperation because elephants often destroy farm and forest lands. And because of agricultural expansion and an increase in the number of individual farms, elephant habitats are diminishing, and farmers are generally not committed to wildlife or land conservation.
"The days are gone in Kenya when the agriculture is limited to large farms headed by white colonists," said Leakey. "We are seeing a radical transformation in land use. Conservation has to be seen against that backdrop."
As a major consumer of natural resources, Harvard should take a leading role in conservation efforts, environmental experts said in a panel discussion at the Graduate School of Education last night.
When Oliver and Waldeck are not on the road together, they split up. Oliver now lives in Austin, and Waldeck's home is still Philadelphia, where he moonlights with a local folk-rock rhythm-and-blues band called the Roosters. Oliver spends many nights playing with Austin's Otter Space...