Bachman’s Warbler (RED HOOK, N.Y.) –It might have become another snail darter case, the celebrated imbroglio between an obscure fish and a Tennessee dam. The endangered creature in this instance was an elusive South Carolina swamp bird whose buzzlike song is heard more often than
From the road that runs over nearby hills one can look out over Kenya’s Lake Nakuru and see a ribbon of pink fringing virtually the entire shoreline. The “pink” is all you can see from that distance of the hundreds of thousands — sometimes over
Thirteen years ago Robert Ardrey published his African Genesis, popularizing Raymond Dart’s old theory that man evolved from a “killer ape” whose murderous instincts remain deeply ingrained in us, despite a veneer of civility. This angry beast is redrawn from the dust jacket of African
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
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
