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...tortoise and freshwater turtle biodiversity program at Virginia-based Conservation International (CI). Turtle meat is still eaten in parts of rural America and there is a growing domestic market in urban Asian-American communities. The meat also has found its way onto high-dollar menus at fashionable wild game restaurants across the country. But ever since China opened up its economy in 1989, conservationists have become alarmed at that country's insatiable appetite for turtle meat...
...Popplewell, who wants more hard numbers on the effect of wild turtle harvesting, says as a bottom line he could support banning harvesting in public wetlands and waterways - in fact, he urges his co-op members not to collect there and he does not collect certain species of turtle. Four land turtles in Texas are defined by the state as threatened...
...reality that 95% of the land in Texas is in private hands, Wagner says. But even in states with large areas of public land the turtle harvest debate has been contentious - Minnesota has grappled with the issue for over a decade. Other states have banned commercial harvesting of wild turtles -among them Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina and Alabama and just last month, Maryland. But until now, Texas was one of a handful of states that remained wide open...
...Postcard: Woolong" [April 30]: For aspecies that numbers only 1,600 and has a habitat of barely 5,000 sq. mi., reintroducing pandas into the wild might turn out to be an important complement to the more basic need to conserve habitat. China deserves credit for making the world aware of the panda's plight and for getting East and West to cooperate in saving the animal. The $4 million that four U.S. zoos contribute annually to saving the pandas' habitat is a piddling amount compared with the need, but China has responded by pouring billions into a "Grain...
...wipes out large portions of the human population. Palahnuik fills in this loose structure with a metaphorical social commentary voluminous and tangential enough to justify the title “Rant.” As in his other novels, Palahniuk magnifies the darkest spaces of modern society and runs wild, creating a world of post-apocalyptic human depravity without the Second Coming or the nuclear destruction of “1984.” The world’s population is split by strict curfew between “Daytimers” and “Nighttimers...