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Mars, of course, has offered the perpetual test of human uniqueness, and has lately become the proof. If life existed anywhere else under the sun, it should have been there. We have always given most-favored-planet status to Mars. How would you describe an elephant to a man from...
The blighted streets of Shenyang's Tiexi district industrial zone tell the troubling tale of China's ailing state sector. White-elephant plants like these all over northeast China account for less than half of the total economy but still employ two-thirds of the labor force. Beijing insists the...
Hundreds of thousands of African elephants were slaughtered in the 1980s by ivory poachers, leading to a 1989 ban on international trade in the precious white stuff. But in southern Africa the species is far from endangered; indeed, the area is now overpopulated with elephants. Two weeks ago, TIME reported...
HARARE, Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana, healthy elephants look like millions in lost ivory sales. Not any more. As delegates burst into "God Bless Africa," the U.N. Convention on Trade in Endangered Species voted overwhelmingly to relax the seven-and-a-half year ban on ivory trade to allow...
It's the ban that has made all the difference, say conservationists and government officials. There isn't much point in poaching because contraband ivory is so difficult--and dangerous--to sell. If the market were opened up, though, the situation could change overnight. Says Dave Currey, director of the...