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...wrong message. Helaine Cadman Marlow, England I fear that humankind's plundering of the habitat of these majestic animals and misguided attitudes toward them will be their downfall. I respect the right of ranchers to protect their herds from predators, but a global realization of the threat of extinction should motivate us to protect the big cats and allow for their continued survival. Brett I. Gingold Bend, Oregon, U.S. Your report suggested that trophy hunting of lions and tigers might be an approach to conserving these species. The dwindling populations of big cats won't be saved by allowing trophy...
...apronchronicles.com) It combines Geisel's collected testimonies and Loggia's vivid portraiture to create a poetry of the familiar. With stories that cut across classes and ethnic divides and photos that capture a broad psychological landscape, the exhibit recalls a world that seems at once immediate and extinct...
...Iberian lynx, there's no choice. Severely overhunted for decades, the species has been declining rapidly since the 1950s, when the rabbit population it dines on was decimated by disease. Today the lynx is the world's most endangered cat, down to fewer than 200 in Spain and probably extinct in Portugal. "There are only two reproducing populations left in southern Spain," says Urs Breitenmoser of the Institute of Veterinary Virology in Bern, who co-chairs the IUCN/World Conservation Union's Cat Specialist Group. "We need a breeding program in order to re-create a viable population that is genetically...
...Scanlon, who at 12 became fascinated with Australian snakes and is now Australia's leading expert on the fossilized type. He holds up the 25-million-year-old femur of one of those giant birds. There's a conspicuous puncture mark, a perfect match for the tooth of an extinct giant crocodile...
...spread and diversity. Now, Archer says, all that's left is "these toothless platypuses confined to a few river systems in eastern Australia." The animal's record reminds palaeontologists of that of the thylacines. Eight types used to roam the Riversleigh rainforests; the last type, the Tasmanian tiger, became extinct in the 1930s. "What we're saying," says Archer, "is, 'O.K., we failed that one. Let's learn from the thylacine. Don't take (the platypus) for granted, because if you push it, it's likely to vanish.'" But the threat is much broader than that. In Australia...