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...Gombe National Park in Tanzania had been virtually eliminated. More people lived there than the land could support. J.G.I. initiated the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education Project (TACARE), a program active in 33 villages around the park. Today people improve their lives through environmentally sustainable projects, such as tree nurseries and wood lots. We provide health care, family-planning and education programs, especially for women. As their education increases, their family size tends to drop...
...airing from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Good's show, Radio Disney's Playhouse, caters to the younger crowd, with more traditional kids' songs, stories, and appearances by Disney characters like Minnie Mouse and Winnie the Pooh. There's also Don Crabtree, who pretends to broadcast from a tree hut every weekday morning...
...Pontal had already been so rapaciously deforested that less than 2% of its native tree cover remained. So when the landless settled next to the remnants of forest, Claudio feared they would chop down the trees for fuel and lumber and destroy animal populations through hunting. Instead, when he and Suzana began to talk with local leaders, they found allies rather than enemies. The landless, they found, were in desperate need of almost everything, including wood. Yet they were willing to try to fill that need in ways that were not environmentally ruinous...
...implement these ideas, IPE, with the cooperation of the Sao Paulo Forestry Institute, established a tree nursery in the Morro do Diabo park and started distributing free seedlings. It also began sponsoring courses in agroforestry. Miro de Castro is a graduate of the first of these courses, and to date he has planted 6,700 trees, from fast-growing cultivars (eucalyptus, acacia) that are useful for lumber and fuel to native forest trees that produce fruit and nuts...
...from humans, chimpanzees and other animals, researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Oxford in England determined that FOXP2 hardly changed during the evolution of mammals. But their analysis, reported last week in Nature, indicated a subtle genetic shift in the human family tree within the past 200,000 years. "The gene seems to trigger the development of the ability to move the mouth, lips and tongue as well as certain neural processes," says Wolfgang Enard, one of the study's German authors...