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Another reason for hope is the resilience of nature--if it is given a helping hand. Fifteen years ago, the forests outside Gombe National Park in Tanzania had been virtually eliminated. More people lived there than the land could support. J.G.I. initiated the Lake Tanganyika Catchment Reforestation and Education Project (TACARE), a program active in 33 villages around the park. Today people improve their lives through environmentally sustainable projects, such as tree nurseries and wood lots. We provide health care, family-planning and education programs, especially for women. As their education increases, their family size tends to drop...
...plot or create characters. "Our goal is to help build critical listening skills," says Robert Batscha, the museum's president. "Kids are so positive about TV and radio that it's a natural vehicle." With that same goal in mind, the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting in St. Louis Park, Minn., which houses a collection of antique broadcast equipment, provides studio time for kids to produce live radio broadcasts. "We've been booked to capacity ever since we opened. We can't keep up with the demand," says Stephen Raymer, the museum's managing director...
...earth courtyard of a simple Brazilian homestead, Suzana Padua looks with pleasure at the grove of trees that Valdomiro ("Miro") de Castro and his wife Ireni have planted near their farmhouse and, in the distance, the chartreuse fringe of saplings growing alongside the Morro do Diabo State Park. "Look around you!" she exclaims. "The Pontal is greening...
...vicinity. Soon, however, the couple realized that to save the tamarins, they would have to save the forest that sheltered them--and that turned into a huge challenge. In 1995, Brazil's Landless Movement decided to resettle thousands of poor people on land bordering the Morro do Diabo park and smaller patches of forest nearby...
...implement these ideas, IPE, with the cooperation of the Sao Paulo Forestry Institute, established a tree nursery in the Morro do Diabo park and started distributing free seedlings. It also began sponsoring courses in agroforestry. Miro de Castro is a graduate of the first of these courses, and to date he has planted 6,700 trees, from fast-growing cultivars (eucalyptus, acacia) that are useful for lumber and fuel to native forest trees that produce fruit and nuts...