Word: fauna
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Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python. The setting is the third largest island in the world, a fetid, fiercely overgrown jungle seething with carnivorous fauna and suspicious tribes. The protagonists are two British greenhorns with minimal survival skills. Poet James Fenton, 35, likes to spend his spare time reading the poems of Swift in a canoe. Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon, 37, is a literary naturalist who admits before embarking on the 1983 expedition, "The nearest I had ever come to a tropical rain-forest, after all, was in the Bodleian Library." Actually, he edges...
Wildlife. Under Secretary Watt, Interior had almost stopped adding threatened fauna and flora to the federal endangered-species list. By the end of 1984, Clark will have added about 20 species to the roster, an improvement over his predecessor but not nearly good enough, say the environmentalists. Some 4,000 plants and annuals are now seriously imperiled; at the current rate it will take about a century to classify them...
Threatened animals are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES treaty. The pact, which took effect in 1975, has 87 signatories. The U.S. has two additional umbrellas: the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which bars the import of animals or plants on an "endangered" or "threatened" list, and the 1900 Lacey Act, which forbids the entry of plants or animals taken illegally out of another country...
Wilson said the prize would help him continue his studies in tropical ecology. "This is a subject for which many of my colleagues and I feel a sense of urgency because a large part of the world's fauna and flota is being extinguished at an accelerating rate by the clearing of forests," he stated...
Flora and fauna animate the works of two American sculptors...