No. 34, July/August 2014

Women & Community-Based Conservation

Women & Community-Based Conservation

Although the US environmental movement began in the late 1800s, it was fractured from the very beginning. Preservationists like John Muir, wilderness author and Sierra Club founder, were focused on protection of nature through parks and other legal mechanisms that allowed limited human use.  Think Yellowstone.  This philosophy was opposed by Gifford Pinchot, who sought to manage resources for more practical purposes, including, importantly, generating income.  Think...

The African Lion: Dinner or Endangered?

The African Lion: Dinner or Endangered?

Eeven while the African lion is under review by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FSW) with regard to a possible listing status under the Endangered Species Act, the king of the jungle is becoming relegated to a royal feast.  Lion meat, easily accessible in the United States, is sold on various exotic meat websites and, recently, has been offered on menus at restaurants across the country.  Since neither restaurants nor online meat suppliers raise or slaughter Afric...

Tropical Coral Reefs & Changing Oceans

Tropical Coral Reefs & Changing Oceans

As soon as the divers venture from the shadow of the ship floating above, a cloud of tropical fishes surround them.  Bright purple, black, green and yellow, they dart around like bees in a hive.  Large blue parrotfishes wander through and lazily bite off bits of corals with their parrot-like beaks.  Wary of the looming shape of the divers, small nemo fish burrow between the poisonous tentacles of their protective anemones while the large head of a moray eel peaks ou...

Securitization of Borders: Is There a Better Way?

Human Creativity & Cultural Diversity: Being Different is a Natural State

Hindu Idol Immersion: Practice & Pollution

The Dark Side of Genetically Modified Foods

Empowering Women in Tanzania

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