Word: conservationists
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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...
DIED. Eliot Porter, 88, conservationist whose dramatic color photography brought new legitimacy to that genre; in Santa Fe. As a young man, fearing that his love of photographing birds was unsuitable for a career, Porter earned an M.D. at the Harvard Medical School and taught biochemistry for 10 years. He quit teaching in 1939 to produce such works as The Flow of Wildness, about the Galapagos Islands; The Tree Where Man Was Born, which explored Africa; and Antarctica. His 1972 book Birds of North America is regarded as a classic...
John A. Cloud '93, despite his conservationist rhetoric, routinely drives with underinflated tires and dirty air filters...
...gained. As Homo sapiens multiplies and forages like army ants, Wilson has grown alarmed about the millions of plant and animal species that are disappearing in civilization's path. Thirty years ago, he witnessed the beginnings of mass deforestation in the Amazon. Ten years ago, he became an active conservationist, with a touch of the ecological poet. Destroying rain forest for economic gain, Wilson now says, "is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal." If there is a gene for vivid imagery, future scientists should know where to look...
...field this summer we will have a geologist, a metallurgist, a conservationist, [a] physical anthropologist [and a] botanist. There's a continual interaction during the time we are actually digging," says Stager. More intensive artifact and lab analysis are deferred to a laboratory in Jerusalem or the Semitic Museum at Harvard. which Stager directs, he says...