Word: habitat
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...easy to like Carter. His passion for helping the helpless and making the world better has manifested itself in a hundred energetic ways--in his labor as a carpenter for Habitat for Humanity, for example, and in his less publicized crusades against the devastating diseases of guinea worm and river blindness in the Third World. Operating out of the Carter Center in Atlanta, he has used his commanding moral authority to mediate disputes and monitor elections and coax transitions to democracy in Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Zambia, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and other countries...
...creeks lacing the 170 miles from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Colorado Springs. That stretch of land at the foothills of the Rockies is aswarm with housing and commercial development; three counties on the Front Range are among the Census Bureau's 10 fastest growing. "We're talking about critical habitat that's almost gone," says Jasper Carlton, director of the Biodiversity Legal Foundation. "We shouldn't be building in these areas anyway. Protecting the mouse saves the environment...
...jobs and economic growth, he says the Federal Government should be tossing animals and plants off the endangered list rather than putting them on. But the public feels otherwise. A Denver Post poll in March showed that 81% support protecting the little mouse that's seldom seen. "Their habitat is shrinking fast," warns Boulder mammalogist Carron Meaney. "We might find the mouse in 100 places now, but in 10 years 95 of those will be under concrete...
...three different groups represented three distinct approaches for addressing local ecological and social issues. One group designed a park for ecotourism and habitat preservation. The second clustered lakefront development along one lake, Lake Josephine, and encouraged development of housing in converted ranchlands. The remaining group took an integrated approach towards Lake Placid as an ecological community, planning multi-income housing and recreational areas, converting agricultural land uses and altering lake-use patterns...
...Washington, whose mission is to help save species from extinction by breeding and studying them in captivity and, when possible, returning their descendants to the wild. Critics argue that the new zoos are merely high-tech amusement parks masquerading as research centers and that they divert funds from legitimate habitat-conservation programs. To be fair, several species have been saved through the efforts of these zoos. But as the deaths at Animal Kingdom show, it can be tricky to mix ecology and entertainment. "What we're experiencing," says Disney spokesman Bill Warren, "is what you really can't plan...