Word: rainforests
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HATCHERY In Kikori's rainforest, an unnamed male frog tends eggs laid in hollowed-out vines . LISTEN? It was just after midnight when frog researcher Steve Richards heard a strange melodious whistle amid the patter of rain in the Papua New Guinea cloud forest. The sound swept away the Australian zoologist's exhaustion as he struggled through the thorny vines and stinging nettles covering the remote mountain slope in the Southern Highlands. "When I heard this, I knew it was going to be fantastic," he says. Switching on his tape recorder and headlamp, he moved carefully toward the sound, trying...
...pass 600. With frog populations worldwide under threat from habitat destruction, fungus infections and introduced predators, Richards, whose research is funded by Conservation International, believes recording the amphibians is of vital importance. "New Guinea, outside of the Amazon and some areas of central Africa, has the largest areas of rainforest left," he says. "Nobody is working there, and what's there is so spectacular...
...will revise anything. Andrew Dlugolecki, an independent climate-change consultant and a veteran of the insurance industry, says, "It's good that they have spoken out, but I don't see them as serious in changing the insurance industry." That sentiment is echoed by Michael Brune, executive director of Rainforest Action Network, which has successfully lobbied Bank of America, Citibank and major U.S. retailer Home Depot to change their sustainable-development positions. "If you want to be an environmental leader, then you need to switch from relying on dirty old energy and embrace new, renewable strategies...
...Like a rainforest standing in the path of a new and exciting time-share, we glibly bid adieu to the sweet taste of Toscanini’s homemade ice cream and pleasant old-world-meets-new-world charm, and Gnomon Copy’s $2 per page fax price and über-convenient coursepacks. And we eagerly await the entrance of a branch of, say, TD Banknorth, the nearest location of which is inconveniently in Waltham...
...offer splendid wildlife encounters. Guides are advised. NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: The view of the Pacific Ocean from the 1,500-m Point Lookout platform, is just one of the joys awaiting hikers in New England National Park www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au - an ecological wonderland of soaring cliffs and World Heritage rainforest. If time is limited, the 2.5-km Eagle's Nest circuit, along the edge of a sheer drop, offers adrenaline in a jiffy...