Word: speciesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The much mistreated and oft-massacred Indians of Brazil are an endangered human species. Almost their only guarantee of survival is the lands reserved for them by law, largely in the Amazon region, where many of these primitive tribesmen pursue a Stone Age way of life. Under the guise of...
Under way since the early 1970s, the feeding program is the centerpiece of an Israeli effort to protect endangered desert species and repopulate the land of the Bible with the animals that inhabited it during ancient times. Thus even such creatures as jackals and wolves, which are anathema to farmers...
The feeding stations cannot save all the desert's endangered species; only the more aggressive carnivores will use them. Officials must also avoid leaving too much food, lest the animals stop fending for themselves. Still, the program seems to be succeeding. Recent estimates by the authority show a healthy...
Your article on the Endangered Species Act [Oct. 16] displays the insensitivity with which man exploits the environment for his own short-run economic gain. What a pity that the earth's innocent creatures must pay for this exploitation with their existence. One could look upon man as a...
As his subject, Palmer turned to Typhoeus typhoeus, commonly known as the minotaur beetle. Barely larger than a pebble, this long, shiny black bug is found throughout sandy areas of Europe, where it feeds mainly on rabbit, sheep or deer droppings. It is named for its three distinct horns-two...