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...nearly 200 years, the priceless rain forests along the Whitsunday Coast in Queensland, Australia, were ransacked?their precious trees stripped out, to grace the boardrooms of Brisbane's ?lites. Now, at long last, a chance to redeem some of that past is at hand, with the Whitsunday Great Walk...
...planned to celebrate Queensland's natural heritage. The 120-km Fraser Island Great Walk had been inaugurated in June, and the 110-km Wet Tropics Walk in Far North region is scheduled to open next June. The remaining three walks?taking in the Mackay Highlands, the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast hinterlands?are expected to open around...
Like any number of vacationing parents, Gary Hirshberg was dismayed to find nothing but fast food as he drove up the Northern California coast with his wife and three young kids several summers ago. But unlike most of his helpless peers, Hirshberg, CEO of organic- yogurt giant Stonyfield Farm, decided to do something about it. Result: O'Naturals, a fledgling New England restaurant chain offering affordable organic food (including flatbread sandwiches, salads, soups and noodles) that Hirshberg dreams of making as ubiquitous as the Golden Arches. It may be a tall order, considering how poorly previous attempts at healthy fast...
Noting that the sharks were often in bad shape before they even arrived at the aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first...
...whole - could get harder still. More than 11,000 illegal African immigrants have arrived in Sicily so far this year. The vast majority set off from the Libyan ports of Zlitan and Zuwarah, and land on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa, just 120 km from the north African coast. Almost 1,800 arrived there just last week. But each year hundreds die in attempted crossings when their rickety fishing boats sink in the Mediterranean swells. Italy has begun an unprecedented crackdown on the new arrivals, who have become a hot political issue for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...