Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cruel face was adamant. He would not show the visitor the panda pelt being offered for sale without a $10,000 deposit. But perhaps she would be interested in a better deal: two live young pandas, chained and ready to go, for just $112,000. Of course, he had leopard and tiger pelts as well, if she were interested. Eight smugglers gathered around them in the dimly lighted, smoke-filled room in Quanzhou, an ancient seaport on the narrow waterway between mainland China and Taiwan; each one was seeking a $19,000 cut just for witnessing a deal...
...movements of a complex underground network of hunters, smugglers, black marketeers, thugs and fishermen. While she never bought any animals, she found it necessary to hand out small bribes of $20, called red envelopes, just to meet the people with the wares, which included the nearly extinct Amur leopard as well as gibbons, golden monkeys and even eagles. TIME's Tad Stoner was permitted, on an exclusive basis, to accompany her during one week of her startling sojourn...
AFRICAN ARK by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher (Abrams; $65). Ethiopia has suffered greatly in this century, but famine and political upheaval have never dimmed its natural wonders and social vibrance. Two photographers have brilliantly captured the essence of the leopard-colored land, as well as the haunting rites of people who still rock the cradle of mankind...
...board the van to see Flynn, eat one of the free sandwiches or look through the clothes bag. A young girl named Susan in a tight leopard-pattern top anxiously awaits the result of her test for the AIDS virus. "You are lucky this time," Zayas says as he puts his arm around her and walks her back across the street. "But you have to keep using condoms...
...ruin of the Everglades between 1880 and 1910, especially by hunters of egret and flamingo plumes and alligator skins, is a likely topic for novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen (Far Tortuga; The Snow Leopard). Matthiessen has made the despoliation of the planet, as well as the ways in which men who work close to nature survive, his main concerns. Lord knows he has done his homework, and he details the destruction repeatedly and with bite. Here is how Bill House, a hardy plume hunter, sees the history of the region: "The Injuns was taking some egrets, trading 'em in with...