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...wedding-cake figurines, communicated the theme of this diabolical case: no matter how upscale the neighborhood, no matter how comfortable the surroundings, you too could be a target. Here, among the endless supermarkets, party stores and gas stations, a malicious hunter--or hunters--has taken position in the natural habitat of contemporary Americans. And incredibly, each time, despite busy, well-lighted streets, no one noticed the shooter. As it turns out, the suburbs, with a camouflage of hedgerows, neon signs and anonymous traffic, make a better shooting gallery than a dark alley...
...movements. But just weeks later, the radio signals stopped. A local park warden believes that Baba was killed, probably by a hunter keen for such a rare trophy. For centuries, the Iberian lynx has been an exotic part of the region's ecosystem. But now a deadly combination of habitat destruction and lack of food threatens the big cats' survival. Earlier this month, the World Conservation Union (I.U.C.N.) upgraded the lynx's status to critically endangered...
...same in the early 1980s when it arrived from Asia, probably via shipments of contaminated meat and infected live rabbits. Not much can be done to fend off such viruses; conservationists just have to wait until the rabbits develop immunity, as they did against myxomatosis. Now the lynx's habitat is becoming almost as scarce as its food supply. Over the past 50 years, Spain's areas of wood and scrubland have shrunk dramatically as a result of farming and development. To give the lynx a fighting chance at survival, wardens at the Doñana National Park are mending...
Wilson used the acronym HIPPO—Habitat Destruction, Innocent Species’ Death, Pollution, Population and Overharvesting—to describe the way humans harm the environment...
...Pentagon official agrees that dozens of al-Qaeda refugees have landed in Iraq, including "some new, mid-level people." But, says a senior intelligence official, "Iraq is not replacing Afghanistan as the sanctuary for al-Qaeda." Many of the newcomers are Kurdish jihadists returning to their native habitat or Afghan Arabs who have slipped into the Kurdish north, which is beyond the control of Baghdad, under the U.S.-enforced no-fly zone established after the Gulf War. Intelligence officials told Time that while Baghdad is aware of their presence, there's no clear evidence that Saddam has made substantive contact...