Word: forestation
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TIMOTHY C. HOHN Lake Forest Park, Wash...
...working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection. Each step is not too improbable for us to countenance, but when you add them up cumulatively over millions of years, you get these monsters of improbability, like the human brain and the rain forest. It should warn us against ever again assuming that because something is complicated, God must have done...
...other side of the Charles River, it’s scaling back its investment on the other side of the globe. The Harvard Management Company (HMC), which steers the school’s $29.2 billion endowment, has sold a minority stake in its 468,000 acre Kaingaroa forest in New Zealand. The buyer is a fund established by the country’s national government to provide for its aging population. The New Zealand Superannuation Fund will acquire a stake of approximately $200 million from HMC, which has owned the forest estate since December 2003. The government land, initially sold...
...response, the city started rounding up monkeys and caging them in a large, dedicated prison on the outskirts of Delhi. Authorities would like to send them to forests in neighboring states, but many of the states refuse to take the animals, complaining that they have their own monkey issues. Last week India's Supreme Court stepped in, ordering that 300 entrapped monkeys be transferred to a forest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh...
...Activists also complain that in the process of rounding up monkeys, many are injured and babies get separated from mothers. "We have to tackle this another way," says Gautam Grover, the head of animal rights group Animal Saviour. "We took their land, we took their trees, we took their forests and now we just want to send them to another forest. We're playing God with this...