Word: forester
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...demand may be driving the poaching boom, but conservationists blame New Delhi for failing to protect the tigers. Wright reserves particular ire for the government's 30-year-old showcase conservation effort, Project Tiger, which is widely regarded as understaffed and underfunded. "The government hasn't recruited any new forest staff in 15 years," she says. Remarks Valmik Thapar, one of India's foremost tiger experts and the director of a conservation group called the Ranthambhore Foundation: "The government just doesn't have the will to save the tiger...
...guards and build fences, we also need to find ways to improve the lives of tribals and other poor people." But any gain for people can be a loss for the tiger, and conservationists argue that the tribal communities sometimes assist poaching. "Every tiger that walks into the forest is a cash register," says Wright. "He represents years of funds for every poor person that lives near his habitat." A bill up for debate in parliament this month would allow tribal communities expanded land and building rights in wildlife reserves, which threatens to crowd tigers off their few remaining sanctuaries...
...children are buried near a stream of running water at the Forest Park East cemetery. Rusty comes by often to talk out loud and to hear his own thoughts. He wishes he had let John come along to work with him that day. He misses Noah, misses the basketball games. He feels in his heart that each of the children has forgiven their mother. He feels they can hear him speak, can hear his thoughts. And so, on one December day, he whispered one plea to them. "Pray for Mommy...
...going to medical school--more out of contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine. Now he's the director of the Ugandan chapter of Prometra, a Senegal-based advocacy group promoting traditional medicine. Sekagya runs an outdoor school in a forest south of Kampala. About 100 students gather weekly under a leafy canopy. Instructors line up herbs on a thin wooden table cut from a single log. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy, students learn the identification and uses of local plants. Meanwhile, spiritualists chant, dance and drum to call...
...know enough about to name. Poles, on the other hand, see balance in terms of possibilities, not limits. This a country where “no thanks” really means “I’ll take two.” Trying the black forest cake but not the lemon torte—now where’s the balance in that? Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned that bread smeared with spiced lard can be wholesome. And so can potatoes. Poles enjoy those simple carbs in hearty servings and still live long, happy...