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...looked bright for Baba, a young Iberian lynx in the Coto Doñana National Park in southwest Spain. Last April, he was rescued from an illegal poacher's trap and nursed back to health, despite badly injured feet and legs. Then in July, he was released into the wild, outfitted with a radio collar to monitor his movements. But just weeks later, the radio signals stopped. A local park warden believes that Baba was killed, probably by a hunter keen for such a rare trophy. For centuries, the Iberian lynx has been an exotic part of the region...
...over by cars - dozens of lynx are killed every year in road accidents. Park officials are also building tunnels so that the lynx don't have to cross roads to get from one area of the park to another. There are also plans to release more rabbits into the wild, to replenish the animals' food supply. The best hope for the lynx is a captive breeding program, one of which may start soon in Doñana, where three female lynx await a suitable male. But these haven't proved successful in the past. "A national park...
...however, had time to appear in one. In a rare vacation from Radcliffe, O’Leary volunteered her talents as a coach and stand-in for Meryl Streep in the 1993 movie The River Wild...
...North Koreans who live in the countryside may be marginally better-off than their urban cousins, because they are able forage for wild plants in the mountains and are allowed to grow vegetables on small private plots. Life is harsh for city dwellers dependent on the industrial economy. On the road from Pyongyang to the northeast corner of the country, you pass mile after mile of rusting factories - probably less than one third of the country's factories are actually running...
...acquaintances for the Mercury newspaper, which he edits and owns. The dead are constantly being summed up into bulleted recollections and pithy paragraphs. Ghostly spirits appear, too, and infiltrate reality on a regular basis; this happens much more at the end, when the tale starts to disintegrate into wild fantasy and unclear parable...