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Five months into his first term, T.R. launches his trust-busting campaign by suing the Northern Securities Co. He also establishes himself as a conservationist, creating Crater Lake National Park in Oregon (the first of five such parks he designates) and proclaiming Pelican Island, Fla., the first federal bird reservation. (He will set up 50 more.) Other highlights include his July 4, 1903, "Square Deal" speech in Springfield, Ill., and the treaty with Panama to build the Panama Canal...
History's first zoo keeper must have been one very busy conservationist, but at least he was spared the burdensome barbs of animal-rights activists, possibly because they were engaged in self-preservation. All Noah had to do was tend his passengers for 40 days and then turn them loose...
DIED. BETTY LESLIE-MELVILLE, 78, conservationist who spent much of her life creating sanctuaries in Africa in a successful push to save the Rothschild's giraffe, a white-legged subspecies, from extinction; in Baltimore, Md. She and her husband, whose house in Kenya often had giraffes poking their heads in the windows, helped raise the breed's population from 120 in the 1960s...
...converted into a summer house and terraced garden. "Oh, God, oh, God," she repeats softly at the sight of one poorly executed renovation after another. "We've lost so much already," she laments. And yet, as always, Thakur determines to keep fighting. "It's a fantastic opportunity for a conservationist," she insists. "There's so much work, and it's so important." If only the odds of success were better...
...future. Everywhere there is a profound hope that its rising international status will somehow compensate for a past often perceived as one long succession of invasions and defeats by foreign powers. Perhaps there is also a cultural factor in this striking neglect of the past: as one conservationist recently told me, "You must understand that we Hindus burn our dead." Whatever the reasons, future generations will look back at New Delhi's conservation failures with deep sadness at all that has been lost...