Word: speciesism
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Since ENV was finally legitimized in 2002, it has proved its mettle. The group's Conservation Awareness Program established "conservation clubs" in 50 Vietnamese schools and taught some 100,000 children about the country's wildlife. It has trained rangers in 30 national parks to set up school programs on...
It took Vu Thi Quyen more than two years of lobbying and paperwork to convince Vietnam's government to legalize Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV), the country's first homegrown environmental group. Bureaucrats had no objection to Quyen's plan to teach public-school students about Vietnam's rare and...
In Vietnam, conservation is itself a young idea. After decades of war and isolation, the country opened its jungles up to foreign environmentalists in the 1990s, and it soon became known as a hotspot for unique species on the brink of extinction. One of the rarest is the golden-headed...
The greatest reward, says Quyen, comes from winning the hearts and minds of young nature lovers?especially kids who have convinced their own parents to stop hunting endangered species. "Education makes a difference," she says. "But it can take decades to change attitudes." Fortunately, she has plenty of time to...
Also coming along, thanks to two independent teams of researchers, is the genome of the closest relative of all: the Neanderthal. Ancestors of Neanderthals first appeared some 500,000 years ago, and for a long time it was a toss-up whether that lineage would outlive our own species, at...