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...MARA SUSKAUER...
...public last September and published in the journal Oryx in January by Hans Bauer of Leiden University and Sarel van der Merwe of the African Lion Working Group, was a paltry 23,000. More than half live in six protected areas, which is why tourists in Kenya's Masai Mara or South Africa's Kruger National Park can still see plenty of lions. But outside these megazoos, lions appear to be in alarming decline...
...Jonathan Beare, Toronto Iain Brambell, Brentwood Bay, B.C. David Calder, Victoria, B.C. Karen Clark, Delta, B.C. Jacqui Cook, Burlington, Ont. Anna-Marie DeZwager, Victoria, B.C. Scott Frandsen, Kelowna, B.C. Kyle Hamilton, Richmond, B.C. Gavin Hassett, Victoria, B.C. Tom Herschmiller, Comox, B.C. Andrew Hoskins, Edmonton Christopher Jarvis, St. Catharines, Ont. Mara Jones, Aurora, Ont. Sabrina Kolker, West Vancouver Adam Kreek, London, Ont. Kevin Light, Sidney, B.C. Jonathan Mandick, Edmonton, Alta. Darcy Marquardt, Richmond, B.C. Roslyn McLeod, Burlington, Ont. Fiona Milne, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Andreanne Morin, Montreal Sarah Pape, Toronto Jeffrey Powell, Winnipeg, Man. Brian Price, Belleville, Ont. Benjamin Rutledge...
DIED. RATU SIR KAMISESE MARA, 83, founding father of Fiji who helped guide the Pacific island to independence after 96 years of British colonial rule; in Suva, Fiji. An important U.S. ally during the cold war, he served as Prime Minister for 25 years before becoming President in a 1993 coup but was forced to retire in 2000 after an armed gang held the Prime Minister and Cabinet hostage for 56 days...
...with the proud bearing of a hereditary high chief, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who has died at 83 from the effects of a stroke, towered over Fijian politics for three decades. Trained as a civil servant under British colonial rule, he helped draft a constitution that gave equal status to ethnic Fijians and Indians and in 1970 became the independent nation's first Prime Minister. After a 1987 military coup ousted Mara's left-wing political rival, he resumed the prime ministership and assented to a new constitution favoring ethnic Fijians. (He later apologized to Indo-Fijians for doing...