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...farm in Surrey, southwest of London, does indeed signal that a killer may again be on the loose in the U.K. Six years ago, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), an infectious illness that targets animals with cloven hooves - pigs and ruminants such as cattle, sheep, goats and deer - devastated the British farming industry and British tourism and battered the reputation of Tony Blair's government. Ministers reacted too slowly when the disease was first detected and compounded that mistake by giving reassurances that quickly proved false. The lush British countryside was laced with gothic horrors as the carcasses...
...burned. The raging wildfires have even scorched the "lungs" of Athens, the great fir-and-pine-carpeted parapet of Mount Parnitha. A national park and a European Union-protected wildlife reserve, Parnitha was the last swathe of substantial greenery accessible to the capital's 5 million residents, teeming with deer, squirrels and wild rabbits, and acting as a natural air conditioner to offset the heat and pollution emitted by the capital's 2.5 million cars. July has left the capital choking, as hundreds of firefighters and conscript soldiers battled to stop Parnitha's inferno from sweeping down the mountain...
This type of weather always brings tragedy - cars swept away, traffic accidents, flooded homes - but out in the hills it also brings abundance. Ranchers won't be burning the spines off cactus this year to provide food for grazing cattle. The deer population, savaged last year as starving does aborted their fawns, likely will see a baby boom marked by twin births, common in green years. "It's amazing," Robert Perez, a state wildlife biologist told the Houston Chronicle. "I've been around the state over the past several weeks, and it's like a new world. Everything's green...
...keep abreast of all the changing forces in the wildlife global marketplace. It is not just American turtles that are in the spotlight. The proposed Texas rules will look at the harvesting of other species including lizards and snakes. Wildlife management is not just about checking fishing and deer hunting licenses any more; it's gone global. What's next? "Bayou Bob" Popplewell says he is already discussing a potential Chinese market for the feral hogs that plague so many Texas ranchers...
...fare there that nods to his native China in a bustling dining room kitted out with Asian-inspired furnishings. Next door, the eye-catching, raw-boned interiors of Riva, www.riva-duesseldorf.de, are background to Ralf Polfers' Continental cuisine, including such standouts as saffron fish cream soup and medallions of deer calf loin with pied de mouton mushrooms, pot-roasted vegetables and fried nut dumplings...