Word: taiga
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...time Grammy nominee. Huun Huur Tu's sparse, ethereal songs - where simple lutes like the doshpuluur and two-stringed fiddles like the igil form the typical accompaniment - are fleshed out with drum loops, cello, keyboard and guitar, but they are not overwhelmed. In haunting paeans like "Mother Taiga" or "Ancestors Call" the romance of the Tuvan steppe is potently concentrated...
...young woman traveling through the Taiga, a shapeshifting animal who just happens to be her lover, a forest queen, and a crude and brutal rake— surprisingly, these characters are not out of a medieval fable. Instead, they are central elements of “The Hazards of Love,” the new concept album from indie favorites The Decemberists. The 17-song rock opera never stops plowing forward from the second it begins, with a mix of folk and in-your-face heavy metal that makes it one of the most inventive folk-rock albums in recent...
...knows exactly how many tigers prowl Russia's taiga, the vast northern forest, but their numbers have dropped sharply in recent years, perhaps to no more than 350. The pressure on the animal intensified in the 1990s, after the Soviet Union collapsed and Chinese traders flowed across the newly porous border with Russia. In traditional Chinese medicine, tiger parts are reputed to have almost magical powers, and even though China has outlawed products made from the endangered cats, traders will pay Russian poachers big money for bones that will fetch $10,000 a lb. on Hong Kong's black market...
Fomenko, 37, calls himself a reformed hunter. A Siberian native, he spent many years earning a living by legally shooting and trapping the taiga's mink and sable. Comfortable even when the temperature hits -40[degrees]F, Fomenko can glide through the deep snow like a cat, carefully placing one foot in front of the other, so his footprints disappear in the steps of his prey. Now and then he stops, sable hat in hand, to do what he does best: listen to the forest. "When you live alone in the taiga for months," he says, "you get to know...
...knows how many tigers are left, but today Primorski province is estimated to have between 180 and 200, down from 350 in 1990. Vasili Solkin, the head of the Russian environmental group Zov Taigi, which means Roar of the Taiga, estimates that in 1993 alone, 75 to 80 tigers were killed, representing more than one-quarter of the remaining population. When traditional East Asian apothecaries ran out of sources for tiger skin and bones, which are used as medicine, among the places to which they turned for new supplies was Siberia. At the same time enforcement efforts collapsed as budgets...