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...Nearby is the Styx Valley, where loggers and protesters argue over stands of E. regnans earmarked for woodchipping, and the Wilderness Society conducts tours along logging roads. Many timber workers pass through Niven's door, but in past months it's tourists who've been flocking to stay. They come, says Niven, "because they have to see the forest before it disappears." After this weekend, they may not have to be in such a rush...
...program has been a success in southern Nepal's Bagmara Forest, where the WWF and the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation helped local people set up a tree nursery. Tigers returned to the area, and locals are able to harvest timber, fuel wood and grasses according to a strict management plan. Local people also benefit directly from the return of wildlife. They collected about $73,000 last year from tourists who came to see tigers, elephants and rhinos in their forest...
...handicrafts, particularly the fine, handblown glassware from the factories in nearby Marinha Grande. The delicate glass, often richly colored, was a by-product of Portugal's maritime ambitions: 700 years ago, the monarchy needed ships and ordered the planting of 12,000 hectares of pine forest to provide timber and control the shifting coastal sands. Those two raw materials attracted glassmakers to the area in the 18th century; the region has been a centre for the industry ever since. Today Leiria produces 45,000 tons of glassware (worth €175 million), and exports three-quarters of it. The first glass...
...cousins hatched in the wild will be removed. That will instantly raise the overall tally of salmon--and make it more probable that the government will eliminate or downgrade protections for 15 salmon species now sheltered under the Endangered Species Act. Such a change is favored by power and timber companies, whose development plans have been stymied by the government's protective net. Environmentalists complain that the action will jeopardize the survival of wild salmon...
...Burma, poverty and malnutrition exist and are by some accounts increasing. Outside Mandalay, I visited the families of migrant workers who live in squalid lean-tos on the wide, refuse-strewn banks of the Irrawaddy River. They labor for subsistence wages, shoveling sand from dredging boats or hauling illegal timber. Often there's not enough work to go around, and sometimes?for example, when the dredgers run out of fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags, "and one of us is always ill." Nearby...