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Indonesian students from other U.S. universities will accompany the Princeton group to help overcome the language barrier. While in Indonesia, the group plans to work mainly on mapping and habitat surveys. According to Busch, more detailed maps of the national park will help "figure out what is needed to save the tiger...
...group will try to find exactly where the tigers live, and also study the flora and fauna of their habitat. Finally, the group believes its presence may help slow tiger extinction...
...tuna have fallen more than 90 percent. In many places, the losses of commercial fish stocks have been catastrophic, and in the last decade tens of thousands of fishermen have been forced to abandon their boats. A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that preserving fish habitat -- and therefore the industry -- was "one of the top national priorities." Regional fishery councils will have to identify "essential fish habitat" and the pressures that threaten them. The guidelines are part of a law sponsored by Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska and signed last year by President Clinton. Stevens...
...dating services and blind dates, the single mother of two wanted to find a more meaningful way for the unattached to meet. In July she started SV, whose 125 members get to know one another while doing tough charity work--including clearing trails, cooking at halfway houses and building Habitat for Humanity homes. Says Lusk: "All pretenses of appearance are gone. There is no rejection in volunteerism...
...they have. And there's plenty of evidence of climate change at the Hadar site. Near the jaw and tools, the team recovered fossils of grazing antelopes, indicative of an open, fairly grassy habitat, rather than forest-dwelling species like impala, which were so prevalent in Lucy's time...