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Some lifelong Bush backers from Texas have provided big sums to SBVT, and last week Bush campaign counsel Benjamin Ginsberg resigned from the campaign after acknowledging that he had advised the group, though he insisted he had done nothing illegal. Now it turns out that retired Rear Admiral and swift-boat veteran William Schachte, who claimed the wound that won Kerry his first Purple Heart was self-inflicted, is counsel at the same law firm as David Norcross, chairman of this week's Republican National Convention. Norcross tells TIME he knew nothing about Schachte's claim. "There's no connection...
...human population is booming. Wild prey and cat-friendly habitat are scarce. Instead, the cats encounter humans who don't hesitate to use guns and poison to protect themselves and their livelihoods. Poachers only add to the cat catastrophe. "Clearly, protected areas alone are not the solution," says Joshua Ginsberg of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which is based at New York City's Bronx...
Conservationists like Frank and Ginsberg and many others have become convinced that the only way to forestall this disaster is to use new strategies that go beyond setting up sanctuaries. Perilous though it may sound, these strategies involve allowing lions, tigers and other big cats to live--or at least pass--among us. Scientists are moving toward a new model of mixed landscapes in which big cats would move from core protected areas through land shared with humans--tea plantations in India, ranchland in Laikipia or, in the case of the cougar (a.k.a. mountain lion), suburban parks in California--giving...
...program gives local people incentives to plant trees or tall thatch grass, which they can harvest and which tigers can use as cover. As forests and grasslands recover, deer, wild pigs and other tiger prey return. "Big cats can handle a modest amount of disturbance," observes WCS's Ginsberg, "but what they really need is cat food...
...donation comes in addition to Gotbaum’s $10,000 direct gift to LRAP, according to Elizabeth Z. Ginsberg, the school’s director of advancement...