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...HABITAT FOR HUMANITY...
Participants in Habitat's Global Village programs spend one to three weeks helping build houses for needy families in any of 60 countries, including Mozambique, Ireland, Samoa, New Zealand, Guyana...
...guessed it?a foam nest. The reserve is home to over 20 species?more than in the whole of Europe?but it's not just frogs you'll experience. "You see a huge amount of other life as well, including creatures rarely seen on big-game drives because the habitat is not accessible," says Alwyn Wentzel, the lodge manager. "Rare serval cats, monitor lizards, terrapins, aquatic birds, cane rats, pythons" and more. But why does the safari leader carry a rifle? Because the Big Five frequent the watering holes...
...huge amount of other life as well, including creatures rarely seen on big-game drives because the habitat is not accessible," says Alwyn Wentzel, the lodge manager. "Rare serval cats, monitor lizards, terrapins, aquatic birds, cane rats, pythons" and more. But why does the safari leader carry a rifle? Because the Big Five frequent the watering holes...
...sight of it was enough to make one outdoorsman cry and Uncle Sam shell out $10 million to protect its habitat. Dubbed the Holy Grail of bird watching, the ivory-billed woodpecker was for decades thought to be extinct, but a team of scientists last week reported seven confirmed sightings within the past 15 months in Arkansas' Cache River National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers warned, however, that "we cannot rule out the possibility that all of our fleeting encounters involved the same bird." Meanwhile, Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton urged bird watchers not to flock to the refuge and "love...