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Environmentalists have traditionally used confrontation to call attention to their cause, but Sam LaBudde, a San Francisco biologist, chose a more subtle tactic: he became a spy. His mission was to document the indiscriminate slaughter of dolphins by fishermen using mile-long purse seines to catch tuna in the Pacific...
With a marine biologist mother, agricultural scientist father and relatives who variously helped create the British Labour Party and served in the French Resistance, how could Catherine Wallace of New Zealand turn out to be anything but an ecological crusader? She got the call to action 12 years ago, when she learned that a mining company had obtained exploration rights from the government for the forest lands on her family's sheep ranch on the North Island's rugged Coromandel peninsula and was about to excavate. "I thought this was outrageous and unjust," recalls Wallace, now 39 and a lecturer...
...seeking an injunction against the hunt. The protesters contended that there was no proof that Yellowstone bison are a danger to livestock. The strain of brucellosis found in bison may not be virulent enough to pose a significant risk to domestic cattle. "They're making policy without data," charges biologist and bison researcher Jay Kirkpatrick. Says Pacelle: "If people want to graze cattle on the Yellowstone ecosystem, they need to assume some limited risk...
...themselves to boats, some adventuresome mussels even managed to move upstream into Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. Similar outriders are expected to start showing up in smaller lakes and major rivers such as the Mississippi, the Susquehanna and the Hudson. "Within 20 years," predicts Margaret Dochoda, a biologist with the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, "the zebra mussel will likely have taken the entire East Coast...
...understand this talk of killing," counters biologist Anna Stanczkowska-Piotrowska of Poland's Agricultural-Pedagogical University. The zebra mussel, she points out, is not without virtues. Its byssuses extrude an adhesive that may have commercial value. Its appetite for foul-smelling algae can markedly sweeten the taste of drinking water. Perhaps most admirable of all, the zebra mussel has performed an act of public service by dramatizing the threat posed by tiny organisms that hitch rides around the world. Both the U.S. and Canada are moving to restrict the discharge of ballast water into the Great Lakes, a measure...