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...endangered species between China and Taiwan and Hong Kong. For six weeks in 1990, under the sponsorship of the TRAFFIC division of the World Wildlife Fund, she took a risky journey through southeast China, following the movements of a complex underground network of hunters, smugglers, black marketeers, thugs and fishermen. While she never bought any animals, she found it necessary to hand out small bribes of $20, called red envelopes, just to meet the people with the wares, which included the nearly extinct Amur leopard as well as gibbons, golden monkeys and even eagles. TIME's Tad Stoner was permitted...
Yellowstone National park includes some of the most exceptional natural features in America. While widely known and widely visited because of the geyser Old Faithful, the park features much more than the famous geothermal fountain. Lake Yellowstone is a beautiful resource for boaters and fishermen. The yellow walls and stunning waterfall of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone are said by many to rival the Grand Canyon of Arizona in splendor. Numerous geothermal features, including fumaroles and other geysers, are colorful and smelly and make for a fascinating field lesson in geology. Finally, Yellowstone is known for its wildlife...
Sharks are unusually vulnerable to the fishermen's assault. "Top predators are not used to mortality threats and do not respond rapidly," says Gregor Cailliet of California's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Sharks generally take 10 to 15 years to reach sexual maturity. Most species reproduce only once every two years, and pregnancy typically lasts a year. With infant-mortality rates exceeding 50%, it is difficult for sharks to maintain their numbers...
...spills. In a body of water badly contaminated by tankers, garbage and sewage, a disastrous spill of the kind that Iraq caused last week could destroy nesting areas for endangered sea turtles and spawning grounds for shrimp while poisoning tuna, snapper, sardines and anchovies, which are vital to local fishermen. "The ecosystems are endangered anyway," says Frank Barnaby, former director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute. "Another million barrels of oil may be the last straw...
...restaurant sits near the banks of the Tigris River, from which fishermen haul out the masgouf -- the big carp that are cooked over wood fires and served as a local favorite. Our guest, just days before the war, was a young man who had been translating the Iraqi press so that we could understand what the government was telling its people. He arrived a bit late...