Word: speciesism
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SOUTH AFRICA Development in Deadlock At least 20,000 people from 193 countries were in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The summit agreed to restore most of the world's major fisheries to commercial health by 2015 by reducing catches to a level that can be maintained...
Animal species on the brink of extinction can be given a second chance through protection and captive breeding--even if preserving a habitat conflicts with economic interests. A company in Taiwan planned to build a rapid-transit line right through the only major remaining breeding ground of the rare pheasant...
Threatened reefs As much as 86% of Indonesia's coral reefs, home to thousands of marine species, are severely damaged by overfishing, sedimentation and pollution
Wildlife under pressure Percentage of species threatened, 1996
Initially, IPE was an extension of Claudio's work with black lion tamarins, a gravely endangered species of New World monkey found only in the Pontal and its vicinity. Soon, however, the couple realized that to save the tamarins, they would have to save the forest that sheltered them--and...