Word: extinctionism
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The reclusive owl is fast approaching extinction in places like Forks. Without the tall trees and well-shaded environment of the oldgrowth forest, the owl loses areas needed for nesting, canopy needed for cover and rotting longs needed to support its prey--mice and other rodents--on the forest floor...
But in the end, the whole issue comes down to politics and economics. In a quest to woo voters from the rural Northwest, conservative politicians portray the issue as jobs versus the environment, security versus the owl. The move is on to water down the Endangered Species Act in order...
A much better solution, most doctors agree, would be to start with a visit to a primary-care physician who knows your personal history, your family background and maybe even a bit about the emotional pressures in your life. Unfortunately, in the U.S. such well-versed generalists, who train in...
Iceland, Norway and Japan--the world's threeprincipal whaling nations--now say new scientificevidence proves that certain whale populations arenot in danger of extinction, and would be unharmedby regulated commercial whaling, Clapham said.
Bush refused to join other industrialized nations in a biodiversity pact to protect plant and animal life from possible extinction. He argued that the treaty failed to protect intellectual property rights in biotechnology and imposed unnecessary obstacles for researchers. "America's record on environmental protection is second to none," said...