Word: parkes
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...WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J.--Indonesia's Bukit-Barifan-Seletan National Park doesn't compare to Paris for many summer tourists. But a group of eight environmentally dedicated students--members of the Princeton's Save the Tiger campaign--will set out on a two-month adventure to the park in June...
Estimates put the number of tigers remaining in the wild at fewer than 5,000. The group chose the Bukit-Barifan-Seletan park because it reportedly has the highest concentration of these animals in the world...
...group began planning the trip to the 900,000-acre national park last year. Margaret Kanard and Tim O'Brien, who did their post-doctoral research at Princeton several years ago, approached EEB Professor Andrew Dobson with the idea, then publicized it through the Princeton Conservation Society...
Indonesian students from other U.S. universities will accompany the Princeton group to help overcome the language barrier. While in Indonesia, the group plans to work mainly on mapping and habitat surveys. According to Busch, more detailed maps of the national park will help "figure out what is needed to save the tiger...
This year Fenway is instituting a new alcohol policy which terminates the park's foamy Bud Light after two and half hours of play...