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...Quyen fell in love with her country's wildlife almost by accident. In 1996, after graduating from university with a geography degree, she took a summer job in Cuc Phuong National Park with the NGO Fauna & Flora International. She was put in charge of educating villagers to respect the park's wildlife, rather than hunt it. But by 2000, Quyen began planning a Vietnamese conservation group that could make the nation more self-reliant. "We can't expect foreigners to come and save our country," she says. "The work should be done by Vietnamese...
...woman who has no children is seen as an amputee." There's not much official enthusiasm for new forms of family, either. "For a long time, France has been a country that follows public opinion," says Joël Bedos, 41, an external relations advisor for an international ngo who lives in Paris. "We have a conservative government that, rather than encouraging society to change, only changes things when they are absolutely sure they won't upset anyone." Under French law, Bedos cannot marry his partner of six years, 42-year-old Gilles Kleitz. Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium allow...
...walking shark may sound like a mutant nightmare, but the creature's discovery was a scientific dream. The epaulette shark-actually a shy, 1-m-long bottom-feeder-is one of more than 50 species of fish, shrimp and coral previously unknown to science that researchers from the environmental NGO Conservation International (CI) reported discovering off the Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Papua province. Last year, a CI team uncovered dozens of new bird and plant species in Papua's Foja Mountains. This time, the group's study of the region's equally rich waters left its marine...
...scarce, says Wilson, "there's no lack of opportunity to get into crime." Despite dire prospects, the poor keep arriving in the city of 18 million. As joblessness, crime and violence continue to grow, the rich are beginning to take flight. Mariana Montoro Jens, who works for an antiviolence ngo called Instituto Sou da Paz, says: "People think of this as the country of soccer and samba. But this is a violent country." The rise of the pcc is one sign of that. Says Ferréz: "In a place where the state doesn't care and the police...
...Group" because it was formed on April 8, 2006?they trumpeted it on VoIP forums and quickly got 2,000 members, many under the age of 30. "Voice chat has sped up the democracy process," says Giang. Says Julien Pain, head of the Internet Freedom Desk for the NGO Reporters Sans Fronti?res: "In Asia, Vietnamese dissidents seem to be even better than their neighbors at using this new tool...