Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter what happens this week in Lausanne, the elephant will still be in some peril. Even if the ivory trade winds down, the elephant will face increasing encroachment from Africa's fast-growing human populations. African farmers or herdsmen trying to eke out a living covet the vast habitats set aside for animals and cannot understand why scarce financial resources go to protect elephants while people go hungry. To many Africans, the elephant is a five-ton nuisance that can trample a season's maize in seconds. As long as they feel that way, they will turn a blind...
Education efforts, both in Africa and in ivory-consuming nations, should emphasize just how crucial elephants are to African ecosystems. Elephants not only inhabit but also shape their habitat. In their search for food, they uproot and topple trees, allowing grasses and shrubs to take root and sunlight to reach the ground. By digging with their tusks, the great beasts bring underground pools to the surface, creating water holes that sustain a host of thirsty creatures. Warns a May 1989 study by a consortium of conservationists: "The elephant's extermination will lead to biological impoverishment and domino-like extinctions over...
...years he believed his ivory was found in the fields of Africa at a common elephant graveyard. Fifteen years ago, he learned the truth. As he moved a section of ivory through a saw, the blade came to a screeching halt and broke. He looked down; in the heart of the tusk was a corroded mass of steel -- a bullet. "When I saw that, I realized," he says, caressing a figurine in his hands. "I was shocked. If I had anything else to do, I'd change my job." From that day on, he has placed the ivory section with...
...ivory the way the Far East sees ivory -- divorced from the animal and remote from the killing," Gup says. "Most of the consumers are so far from the source that they cannot imagine its origin in axes and blood. As I went back toward Africa, the horror...
...Latin song styles. Simon is planning to include Brazilian- inspired material in his next album, scheduled for release in early 1990. Gabriel, whose new Real World label focuses on non-Western music, based his score for the film The Last Temptation of Christ on the sounds of Brazil and Africa. Brazil's influence is also acknowledged by Roberta Flack on her late- 1988 album Oasis. "Under a warm Rio night/ We danced on the edge," she coos in a number dedicated to Brazilian singer-composer Djavan. "And my heart stood still/ Oh, Brazil, Oh, Brazil...