Word: conservationism
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The idea for a World Heritage List was hatched in the late 1950s, when the ancient Abu Simbel temples in Egypt were being threatened by a small dam. Frustrated by the Egyptian government's lack of action to protect the ancient buildings, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization...
It's hard not to notice 1 million migrating animals. But until Mike Fay and Paul Elkan, scientists with the Wildlife Conservation Society, began conducting aerial surveys of southern Sudan in January, the world had little idea the savannahs were covered with 1.2 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope (shown...
Yuma Ethanol will create 40 jobs paying an average of $40,000 a year, well above the county's per capita income of $26,707. The Panda operation, valued at more than $120 million, plans to hire 500 construction workers, as well as a permanent staff of 50. Officials estimate...
You probably know what happened next: conservation and a global recession--and the gusher of new oil produced by all that capital spending by Exxon and its brethren--sent prices plummeting.
The same goes for the scuba diving. The reefs off the nearby isle of Misali, a conservation area that protects nesting turtles, reveal some of the most spectacular marine life in the world, with everything from surgeonfish to fairy basslets teeming amid mountains of unspoiled coral. If you rise early...