The moment Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns saw the three orphans in a Russian zoo, they knew what they had to do. It was May, 1997, and the couple was visiting the animal park in Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka's biggest city. There, in a cage, were three ...
Charlie Russell's and Maureen Enns's efforts to reintroduce three orphaned grizzly bears to Kamchatka is one example of the growing international efforts to restore wildlife to their rightful place in the world. But sometimes restorationists want to put predators like grizzlies back into places they ...
Web Sites Studying Grizzly Bears in the Wild http://www.cloudline.org Details about Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns' adventures in Kamchatka. National Wildlife Federation: Grizzly Bears http://www.nwf.org/grizzly/programHomepage.cfm?cpId=56&CFID;=932434&CFTOKEN;=12853333 The life and activities of the grizzly, as well as current conservation efforts and actions. The Kamchatka Independent Ecological Group ...
NATURE introduces you to the unsung heroes in our history in Chimpanzees: An Unnatural History. The history of chimps in our society is a history unlike any other. We have sent them into space, dressed them in costumes and demanded that they entertain us. Some ...
Web Sites General Atlantic Blue Marlin - Florida Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/BlueMarlin/BlueMarlin.html Biological profile of the Atlantic Blue Marlin. White Marlin - Florida Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/descript/whitemarlin/whitemarlin.html Biological profile of the White Marlin. Sailfish - Florida Museum of Natural History http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Gallery/Descript/Sailfish/Sailfish.html Biological profile ...
Mysteries and surprises abound in the nocturnal world of Leopards of Yala. For more than a century, Yala National Park in Sri Lanka has been one of Asia's most celebrated wildlife preserves, a lush windswept tropical forest rich in rare aquatic birds and abundant with ...
On any other day, the bulky package might have gone through. But on this day, a postal worker in Sri Lanka decided something was not quite right. Soon, his suspicions were confirmed: Inside the paper wrapping was the soft and beautiful fur of a Sri ...
If Gordon Buchanan ever writes an autobiography, the Scottish filmmaker behind NATURE's Leopards of Yala could title it "From Dishpan Hands to Distant Lands." As a teenager on the rural island of Mull, Buchanan took a job in an eatery owned by a woman whose ...
Web Sites Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society's Leopard Project http://www.slwcs.org/ Updates on the Sri Lankan leopard's status as well as information about poaching. Leopard http://lynx.uio.no/catfolk/sp-accts.htm Biology, habits, and more from the Cat Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union. Leopards and other big cats http://www.jetwingeco.com/web_pages/education/lecture_series_mod4.html ...
