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ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM Currents and winds have carried the slick through coastal fishing grounds and across nearly 200 miles of shoreline. The sludge has coated hundreds of seabirds and closed local fisheries. Now other areas are threatened: shellfish beds and a nature preserve for marine birds, including the near extinct Iberian guillemot...
After a narrow escape from death, the future looked bright for Baba, a young Iberian lynx in the Coto Doñana National Park in southwest Spain. Last April, he was rescued from an illegal poacher's trap and nursed back to health, despite badly injured feet and legs. Then in July, he was released into the wild, outfitted with a radio collar to monitor his 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...
...animals, birds and insects, 121 of which are new to the list since 2000. But not all the news is bad. In the last two years scientists have discovered at least two creatures once thought to be extinct that are now making a comeback. But the challenges facing the Iberian lynx are particularly dire. One reason for the lynx's dramatic decline is starvation - the unintended consequence of a failed ecological intervention. Since the 1950s, Europe's rabbit population - the lynx's main food source - has twice been hit by debilitating diseases. Myxomatosis decimated the rabbits after a French doctor...
...Spanish firms have poured more than €50 billion in Brazil - double the amount invested in Argentina - particularly across the telecom, banking and energy sectors. But the Brazilian real has gone into a downward spiral - the currency has lost one-third of its value since April - and taken some Iberian earnings along for the ride. Last month, Spanish giant Telefónica cited currency woes as a reason for its reported 23% fall in Latin American revenues in the first half of 2002. Last week SCH, Spain's largest bank, registered a 13% drop in first-half earnings and said...
...Committee on Latin American and Iberian Studies issues about 25 certificates a year and the number has also been regularly increasing, according to Stephen J. Reifenberg, executive director of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies...