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Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt scans his vast office, then gazes down at the blue Republican carpet. He intends to tear the rug out, for it conceals a fine walnut floor installed during New Deal days by his conservationist hero, Harold Ickes. Not even the floor covering is beyond the scrutiny of Babbitt as he carries out vast changes in the Interior Department and in the government's philosophy toward its public lands. Where conservatives James Watt and Manuel Lujan once presided, Babbitt now speaks as if he were in a vanguard of liberators. "There has been an ideological war going...
Berry's childhood sounds like that of any high achiever. His parents, a conservationist and an elementary school teacher, stressed excellence...
Unknown to the smugglers, the young woman was not, as she had told them, a Taiwanese buyer for wealthy collectors. Rather she was an ardent conservationist who had gone undercover to document the extent of illegal trade in endangered species between China and Taiwan and Hong Kong. For six weeks in 1990, under the sponsorship of the TRAFFIC division of the World Wildlife Fund, she took a risky journey through southeast China, following the movements of a complex underground network of hunters, smugglers, black marketeers, thugs and fishermen. While she never bought any animals, she found it necessary to hand...
...punishment has failed to slow the poachers. Since the laws were enacted, more than 2,000 illegal killings have been reported, and enforcement of the measures is lax. "The government is interested in protection, but it has too many other things to take care of," explains one exasperated Chinese conservationist. Says the WWF investigator: "There is little effective control. Hunters told me they shoot anything they...
Financial pressures have led many developing nations to continue shortsighted policies that squander natural resources. In Brazil the appointment by President Fernando Collor de Mello of outspoken conservationist Jose Lutzenberger as Secretary of the Environment raised hopes that the burning of the Amazon rain forest would be halted. But environmentalists are still waiting for Collor to prove that his commitment to saving the Amazon is more than public relations. "Lutzenberger has not presented one significant change in internal policy," says Fabio Feldmann, the only Brazilian congressman elected on a green platform...