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...what makes this zoo so special. Here, there are no food wrappers littering the ground or pennies in the Nile crocodile pond or throngs of people pushing and shoving to see orangutans. Once an old-fashioned collection of rickety cages, the zoo was modernized in 2001 to feature "tropical-forest" dwellings. These allow visitors to see the animals at all times, yet still provide spaces to which the 1,167 furred, feathered and scaled residents can retreat. In the underwater "riverine forest," part of the Southeast Asian collection, you come face to face with a lazily floating false gavial...
...dramatic discoveries -- including four lost cities in the jungles of southern Belize -- shed new light on the ancient civilization of the Maya, which flourished in Central America between the years 250 and 900 and then suddenly collapsed, apparently the victim of infighting, overpopulation and reckless destruction of the rain forest...
...Forest Service Boss Biologist Jack Ward Thomas once headed a scientific team that called for banning timber cutting in some federal forests in the Northwest to protect the spotted owl. Environmentalists were thus delighted when the President named Thomas chief of the U.S. Forest Service, which regulates logging in national forests...
...teaching a Justice section or giving a Biochemistry lecture, these elements might not matter. But his course, VES 113, “Altered Landscapes” is one of Harvard’s few classes to be taught mostly outdoors. Each week, the class boards a shuttle to the Forest Hills Cemetery, where they have obtained permission to create landscape-based artworks. As Stopforth puts it, “We experience the environment moment to moment, for the pure physical pleasure of being...
Encouraged, the Bangs listened some more. They identified alcohol abuse as another big issue and began addiction treatment. And given that half their patients were from the forest-dwelling Gond tribe and wary of city hospitals, the Bangs asked them what a Gond hospital might look like. The result is what Abhay named Shodhagram (Research Village), a medical center outside Gadchiroli that resembles a village, with separate huts housing the lab, surgery, pharmacy, wards, library and even a shrine to the Gond goddess Danteshwari...