Word: conservationists
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...often discouraged by the condition of our planet and its rate of decline, but conservationist Jane Goodall, in her piece "The Power of One," balanced her concerns with optimism and the idea that we can each make a difference. In my little way (biking to work, recycling more, consuming less), I will try. JEAN COCKBURN Issaquah, Wash...
...Everyone wants to say something," said Anna Maria Giordano, an Italian conservationist keen to talk about the damage a proposed bridge between Sicily and the mainland could cause. "And they've all come here to say it." Just then a colleague from Egypt arrived, after being brow-beaten by an Egyptian environmental official. "He told me, 'What you are doing is a disgrace. Have you heard any other citizen from any other countries speak out against their governments...
...tribute to the planet from former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, who has seen Earth from a rare vantage point; a cautionary tale of lost civilizations from Jared Diamond, Pulitzer prizewinning author and a director of the World Wildlife Fund; and an impassioned call to action from Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist. (Goodall faxed her essay to us with apologies that she wouldn't be around for a while to answer editors' questions. She was heading soon into a rain forest in the Republic of the Congo...
This touchy-feely stuff comes in part from Bonderman, who taught law at Tulane University in New Orleans in the 1960s but reportedly fell out of favor because of his "hippie" clothing and outspoken liberal viewpoints. He is an ardent conservationist, working with the Grand Canyon Trust and the Wilderness Society...
...town's old quarter, which on the map looks like a boot giving the fat brown snake of the Mekong a kick in the belly, is a conservationist's paradise: a kind of colonial Disneyland with lane after unspoiled, palm-fringed lane filled with French brick and stucco buildings and teakwood homes that sag with age. On almost every corner and rise sits a temple: there are more than 30, some half a millennium old. The golden sweep of their winglike roofs seems to suspend them in the hazy skies. The place is so photogenic the local Kodak concession must...