Word: habitat
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...determine which species are most at risk. The overall picture is no less bleak than the one described by the previous list, issued four years ago, and the outlook for certain groups is especially grim. The number of critically endangered primates has risen 50%, largely as a result of habitat loss and the demand for "bush meat." The number of critically endangered freshwater turtles, prized in Southeast Asia for food and medicines, has more than doubled. Among birds, the number of threatened albatrosses jumped from three to 16, owing to long-line fishing. Even more alarming, say environmentalists, is that...
Rural Studio has been dubbed Redneck Taliesin South and compared with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the apprentice architects in the studio have more design freedom than students at Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Taliesin studios. And unlike Habitat, which to date has built 100,000 affordable houses, the Rural Studio turns out only a few handcrafted homes, farmers' markets and community buildings each year...
...could go build a house with Habitat for Humanity. Just kidding...
...Rural Studio has been dubbed Redneck Taliesin South and compared with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the apprentice architects in the studio have more design freedom than students at Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Taliesin studios. And unlike Habitat, which to date has built 100,000 affordable houses, the Rural Studio turns out only a few handcrafted homes, farmers' markets and community buildings each year...
...mobilized experts and extremists. It is in part a familiar religious struggle--Earth Firster vs. logger, environmentalist vs. entrepreneur. The argument is also about the dynamics of land and trees and weather and man, about forestry and wildlife habitat and flames and money and reverence and recreation. It is about what has gone wrong (if anything) to allow such a conflagration, about whether the fault lies with nature or with man, and about how to manage the nation's patrimony of forests in the longer term...