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Goodall, now 67, still needs to build up energy, but these days she expends it on the road rather than in the bush. She is traveling 300 days a year, trying to meet the needs of a demanding public and the conservationist causes that she did so much to inspire. "There's such an onslaught of people wanting information, people wanting this, that and the other," she says...
...been made - so far this year, officials at Shanghai's Pudong Airport have confiscated 1,533 tusks or ivory products - many customs authorities quietly take a cut of the profits and let the contraband through. "There is no sense that these animals should be saved," says a Beijing-born conservationist. "Africa is just seen as one big marketplace...
Scientists ultimately hope to de-mythologize sharks, to erase their images as rogue man-eaters like the great white shark that figures in Jaws, the Peter Benchley novel turned Steven Spielberg movie classic. Benchley, who says he is now "a full-time ocean conservationist," told TIME last week, "I couldn't write Jaws today." After 25 years of research, the demonization of sharks doesn't hold, he says. "It used to be believed that great white sharks did target humans; now we know that except in the rarest of instances, great white shark attacks are mistakes." Dr. Robert...
...Braack, a leading South African conservationist and former head of scientific services at the Kruger Park, is coordinator of the gkg project. "Our milestones include agreements on community involvement and protection, the development of an integrated tourist plan and the training of game rangers and law enforcement officers," says Braack. "Only then do we start the big elephant move." Among the challenges that Braack has to face are the building of a 400-km fence and the removal of unexploded land mines - the legacy of decades of conflict. "Wild animals don't have borders," says Anton Rupert. "They could teach...
...Schröder's credo is "politics should be all about putting the finger on the sore spot," even if that means antagonizing your friends. Since the youngster from Berlin, like many of her party's rank and file, is an uncompromising conservationist and anti-militarist, the first target of her criticism has not been the political opposition but the top brass of her own party, whom she feels have betrayed the ideals of the past. "Green politics no longer has anything in common with the original platform," she complains...