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Tuna has long been a standard item on my shopping list. Not anymore. A small contribution to conservation, perhaps, but one by one it may make a difference. Thank you TIME for regularly alerting readers to the planet's predicament. Cilla Geldenhuys, WITSAND, SOUTH AFRICA...
...very incomplete." Even in Costa Rica, President Oscar Arias is elbowing for greater executive powers while weakening his country's famously strong environmental standards. The region's health - half of all Guatemalan children under age 5 suffer chronic malnutrition - and its education levels remain pathetically low. Only Africa has a worse regional literacy rate...
...protect Ulu Masen from illegal loggers and poachers, who greedily eye its valuable hardwoods and teeming wildlife: elephants, gibbons, tigers, leopards, bears, pythons and scaly anteaters. The rangers' work might seem remote from the modern world, but it has implications far beyond Ulu Masen's frontiers - from Africa and the Amazon, which along with Indonesia are home to what's left of our rain forests, to the meeting rooms of Copenhagen, where thousands of delegates will arrive for next month's historic climate-change conference. (See heroes of the environment...
...have been set up in the hinterlands to train new paramilitary forces. Thierno Sow, president of the Guinean Organization for Human Rights (OGDH), claims the camps are outside a town called Forecariah near the border with Sierra Leone and that they are being run by mercenary instructors from South Africa and Israel. Corinne Dufka, the West Africa regional director for the New York-based Human Rights Watch, could not confirm the existence of foreign instructors, but said the training "is definitely going on." The junta is "digging in," she says. (See pictures of death and life in Sierra Leone...
...previous versions of the U.N. findings. "The report says this is a deeper problem than going after them with an army. These guys are colluding with military officials throughout the region - the head of intelligence in Burundi, senior army commanders, important gold traders." (Read: "A Glimmer of Hope in Africa...