Conservation magazine
 

 
 CURRENT ISSUE >>

 
 
  

Our Partners
  



Conservation in the Classroom
Free Teaching Tools

  



Table of Contents
April-June 2008 (Vol. 9, No. 2)

FEATURES


DO TREES GROW ON MONEY? Cover Story
After years of failed attempts to merge market economics with rainforest conservation, the US$60 billion carbon market might finally be the ticket. That is, if money is all it’s going to take.
by Fred Pearce

IDENTITY CRISIS
Hybridization can be both a creative and a destructive force. And it’s on the rise. Should we embrace it or quash it?
by Douglas Fox

A WITNESS TO VIOLENCE
Long before the Darfur crisis, Michael Fay foresaw that the murderous Sudanese horsemen would not stop at killing elephants.
by J. Michael Fay

INNOVATIONS


CATCH YOU LATER
New lunar calendar tells Hawaiians when not to fish
by Christopher Pala

GYN-ECOLOGY
Vaginal transmitter locates newborn deer
by John Weier

TURN SIGNALS
Submersible device unravels mysterious navigation skills of baby fish
by Eric Wagner

UNDERWATER ELECTRIC KITES
A new class of free-flow turbines could help replace dams
by John Weier

WHEN LEMURS FLY
Tiny high-tech backpack tracks colugos gliding through the forest
by Eric Wagner

LIGHTEN UP


101 FUNNY THINGS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING Print Only
Lethal diseases that make the jump from animals to humans are on the rise
by Sidney Harris & Colleagues

NUMBERS IN CONTEXT


IS IT CONTAGIOUS?
Lethal diseases that make the jump from animals to humans are on the rise

ESSAY


UNORIGINAL SIN Print Only
by Alan Burdick

JOURNAL WATCH


As outdoor recreation wanes, will conservation commitment go with it?
Malnourished seabirds dying from bycatch junkfood
Beavers are drought insurance
Endangered macaws dependent on their worst enemy
Fish invasions linked to GDP
Reduced tariffs benefit wildlife
Vermont forests moving uphill

BOOKS


Bottom Feeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood by Taras Grescoe
Babylon’s Ark by Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence
The Soul of the Rhino by Hemanta Mishra with Jim Ottaway Jr.
Darwin’s Fox and My Coyote by Holly Menino
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott

FROM READERS


YOUR LETTERS AND COMMENTS

THINK AGAIN


Dangerous Games
by Catherine Brahic