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...Australian general practitioner had traveled for twelve days on the Franklin River, a beautifully remote waterway in western Tasmania, without sign of civilization. Suddenly, near the river's headwaters, he heard the racket of construction equipment -- jackhammers, drilling barges, bulldozers and helicopters. They were about to build a dam that would have destroyed everything Brown had just seen. "I decided on the spot that the preventive medicine I should be involved in was the conservation movement," says Brown, 45. He dropped his medical practice and joined the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, which had taken on the state power commission in what...
...Australia's most notorious environmentalist. During the seven-year battle to save the river, he was robbed, shot at and set upon by thugs. The mailbox of his spartan weatherboard cottage was stuffed with animal entrails. But his soft-spoken message of peace and planetary conservation prevailed, and the dam was scuttled in 1983. Briefly jailed for barring the path of a bulldozer, Brown was elected to the Tasmanian parliament the day after his release -- one of five "green" M.P.s who hold the balance of power in Australia's smallest state. Today he speaks out regularly on such issues...
When Janos Vargha took a job at the scientific journal Buvar in Budapest, one of his first assignments was to study a dam being built on the Danube near the Hungarian village of Nagymaros. Vargha's article, critical of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian project in those pre-glasnost days, was spiked. "That was my first experience with censorship," he says...
...northern spotted owl has become to the timber industry what the tiny snail darter was to dam builders -- a symbol for environmentalists, only cuter. In the 1990s, the owl may curb logging in the Pacific Northwest just as the small fish temporarily halted construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Last week a panel of federal scientists called for a halt to logging on up to 40% of the national forest land in Oregon, Washington and California to keep the owl from becoming extinct. An estimated 1,700 pairs survive, a drop of more than half the population since...
...Well, they are conducting their electoral campaign in our country. Last December they still assured us that we would be able to develop our own democracy. But you can't do anything against a dam breaking. The water spills over you. In our first elections, we of the New Forum have been put at a disadvantage. It's obvious. Those with ties to West German parties have the logistics, whatever is needed to run a campaign. We have only private sympathizers. Nor can I bring myself to look into the television camera and say the same short sentence 20 times...