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...ground monitoring, environmental groups say. Otherwise, funding is often diverted to other projects or siphoned off by corrupt officials. "The difference between success and failure in protecting wild areas is presence," says Alan Rabinowitz, director of science and exploration at the Wildlife Conservation Society, based at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. "The ones that fail are where a project is set up and walked away from...
...Martel, a French-Canadian writer of gentle wit, lets Pi tell his own story in an engaging voice, starting with a wondrous childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of zoo owners. In his adolescence, Pi becomes promiscuously religious: he decides he wants to be Hindu, Muslim and Christian, devoutly and simultaneously. His pandit, his imam and his priest are less than pleased. Pi doesn't see the problem. Gandhi, he reminds them, said "all religions are true," and as for himself, he says, "I just want to love...
...family decide to emigrate to Canada, zoo animals in tow, but their ship sinks into the Pacific, leaving Pi and the tiger?named Richard Parker due to circumstances that would take too long to describe here?bobbing in a lifeboat. With no escape for either, Pi must tame the tiger if they are both going to survive...
...million Donations to Washington's National Zoo inspired by popular giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian...
...Numbers $22 million in donations to Washington, D.C.'s National Zoo were inspired by its popular giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian 1,100 giant pandas are left worldwide 22 hours of continuous surgery?by a team of more than 50 specialists in Los Angeles?were required to separate two one-year-old Siamese twins conjoined at the head $30 billion was granted to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund, the agency's largest single loan ever $3.3 billion in additional bogus accounting was uncovered by WorldCom's internal auditors last week, bringing the total to $7.1 billion...