Web Sites NATURE: Polar Bear Invasion https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/polarbear/index.html NATURE Web site examining the town of Churchill's relationship with polar bears. Manitoba Conservation http://www.gov.mb.ca/natres/wildlife/managing/fs_polar_bear.html Information on the polar bears of Churchill, from the government organization in charge of managing the bears. Polar Bears in Recent Decades http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_schliebe.html ...
Viewers of NATURE's Rhinoceros may be wondering how Emi the Sumatran rhino is faring during her third historic pregnancy. Emi, who gave birth to the first Sumatran rhino ever to be born in captivity in September 2001 (a 72.6-pound male calf named Andalas), and the ...
WEB SITES Rhino Conservation Program http://www.cincyzoo.org/Conservation/RhinoConservation/rhinoconservation.html Read about the captive Sumatran rhino breeding program at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens, and get an update on Emi and her calves. Save the Rhinos http://www.rhinocampaign.net A campaign sponsored by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria ...
NATURE's John Denver: Let This Be A Voice explores the American West with the late singer and conservationist. Defying all conventional labels, John Denver held a singular place in American music: a songwriter whose immensely popular work was suffused with a deep and abiding kinship ...
A song, it is said, can lift the heaviest heart and put a sparkle in the saddest eye. And, as John Denver showed during a remarkable life cut short by an untimely accident, a song can also be one of nature's best friends. NATURE presents ...
Nothing so captured John Denver's imagination like flight. In addition to being an accomplished pilot, Denver was also a devotee of birds of prey, or raptors -- the hawks and eagles that soar through the skies with grace and power. Indeed, Denver's attraction to raptors ...
When he was still a child, John Denver was moved to write his first song by the rushing waters of a Colorado River tributary. In Let This Be A Voice, the adult songwriter returns to the Colorado's mighty waters for the first time as an ...
Web Sites John Denver: The Rocky Mountain High Fan Club http://www.rockymtnhigh.org/ Extensive links to the singer's music, words, and environmental activities. Windstar Foundation http://www.wstar.org/ A group founded by Denver to "inspire individuals to make responsible choices and take direct personal actions to achieve a peaceful ...
Legend says that a magician once swam to Iceland in the form of a whale, hoping to bring the isolated North Atlantic island under his spell. But when he reached Iceland's rocky shores, he abandoned his dream upon discovering that it was already inhabited by ...
