Category: Environment

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Helen Suzman, South Africa's lone anti-apartheid M.P., in her office at home.

South Africa’s Helen Suzman, Conscience of a Troubled Land
by Judy Rensberger

Johannesburg, South Africa In 1952 Helen Suzman seemed a poor bet to become South Africa’s most vilified and yet most internationally admired politician. She was young and pretty, rich and social, and the golf-playing wife of a Johannesburg doctor. Helen Suzman, South Africa’s lone anti-apartheid

Much of the part of Amboseli that has had the most animals and tourists now looks like this.

Nature ‘Spoils’ a Wildlife Paradise

Perhaps the best known and most enduring single feature of East Africa is the massive, snow crested mound of Kilimanjaro, rising through the clouds to over 19,000 feet. In the foreground of many thousands of tourists’ photographs of the mountain, however, is one of the

Today a tossed and eroded badlands, the Omo Valley was, in the days when man first evolved, a flat and dry grassland dotted with trees. Then as now, the Omo River flowed through the region, its banks fringed with a verdant forest.

The Omo Research Expedition: Exploring the World of Early Man

The Omo Valley, Ethiopia   Out here in a remote corner of Ethiopia, under the burning African sun, they are learning what the world was like when man was born. Near the banks of the ancient Omo River, unlike any other place in the world,

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The ‘Elephant Slums’ of Tsavo National Park

Voi, Kenya Probably no other controversy has done more to divide the ranks of conservationists around the world or more to cripple ecological research in East Africa than that involving the elephants of Tsavo. Because of pressures outside the huge 8,300 square -mile Tsavo National