Consignations

Nonfiction Usage Journalism UsageAfrica's - News: June 5, 2006 - Headline: Preserving Africa's Natural Heritage for Humans and Wildlife. Author: Ashenafi Abedje. Excerpt: Africa has some of the most diverse and productive wildlands in the world, teeming with huge populations of large migratory mammals. But the continent also faces tremendous challenges, including extreme poverty, the highest human population growth rates in the world, limited economic opportunities, and rapidly...
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Nonfiction Usage Journalism UsageAfrica's - News: June 5, 2006 - Headline: Preserving Africa's Natural Heritage for Humans and Wildlife. Author: Ashenafi Abedje. Excerpt: Africa has some of the most diverse and productive wildlands in the world, teeming with huge populations of large migratory mammals. But the continent also faces tremendous challenges, including extreme poverty, the highest human population growth rates in the world, limited economic opportunities, and rapidly changing political systems. They combine to create tremendous pressure on both people and natural resources. In the face of these challenges, conservationists work with Africa's governments, institutions and people to preserve the continent's natural heritage for both wildlife and humans.African - News: September 13, 2002 - Headline: Ivory Coast's Abou Kouamekro National Park: Survival vs. Preservation. Excerpt: But the plan is in its infant stage, and officials with the Ivory Coast Office of National Park Protection say they realize that, with no facilities currently in place, they have a long way to go before the plan becomes a reality. So far, they have gotten only a small percentage of the funding they need to carry out the project. Some conservationists worry that, by the time the project is fully implemented, more cases like the attacks at Abou Kouamekro will occur, and more wild animals will be killed off.Alaska - News: September 6, 2001 - Headline: Proposal to Drill in Alaska Refuge Leads to Intense Debate. Author: Mike O'Sullivan. Excerpt: For conservationist David Cline, who heads the Alaska office of the World Wildlife Fund, the plan is just the latest of many efforts to spoil Alaska's pristine wilderness. He says he and his colleagues are now engaged in a battle. In the minds of people like myself and other conservationists here and throughout the country, the major compromises have been made and we're not willing to make any more compromises on a crown jewel in this system of protected areas, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, when we don't feel it's in the national interest, he says.Alaska - News: October 12, 2005 - Headline: National Oil Needs Conflict with Alaskan Wildlife Area Preservation. Author: Greg Flakus. Excerpt: Mark Myers says most residents of the 49th state are strong conservationists, but they are still supportive of energy development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Angola - News: April 6, 2006 - Headline: Wildlife Group Says Angola's Illicit Ivory Trade Growing. Excerpt: Because of Angola's long-running civil war, which ended just four years ago, no one has taken a proper census of that country's elephant population for more than 30 years. However, Stephenson says it is estimated that in the 1980s, Angola probably had about 12,000 elephants. He says conservationists now believe heavy poaching in that country may have reduced the herd to just a couple of hundred elephants.Australia - News: January 23, 2004 - Headline: Australia Deploys Armed Surveillance Ship to Deter Fish Poachers. Author: Phil Mercer. Excerpt: Australia is deploying an armed surveillance ship to deter fish poachers in the Southern Ocean, mainly to help protect valuable stocks of Patagonian toothfish. Conservationists say it is being hunted to near-extinction. But regulating trade in the fish is proving to be difficult, despite international agreements to limit catches. ... Environmental crime in the Southern Ocean shows little sign of abating. Dozens of pirate ships are reported to be stalking the lucrative fish. Despite signs that stocks are dwindling, the Patagonian toothfish has not been placed on international lists of endangered species. Conservationists say efforts to get it listed have so far failed.Australia - News: December 21, 2006 - Headline: Drought Has Severe Impact on Australian People, Economy. Author: Phil Mercer. Excerpt: Conservationists here are linking the drought with global wa