Photos Document Coral Forest Annihilation
Excerpt:
"By the late 1990s, it was clear that the reefs had been badly damaged by the trawlers. But nobody knew what the damage looked like or what exactly had been lost. Then, in 2001, Reed climbed into a tiny submarine, went back to the spots where he had helped take all those pictures in the '70s and took a second set of photos. Then he hauled the "before" and "after" pictures into his lab.
Reed spent a good part of the next several years putting before and after photos under a microscope, trying to figure out exactly how many corals had been lost since the 1970s.
"And what I saw devastated me," he says. "Instead of 60-foot reefs, I saw 60-foot mounds of rubble. Nearly every coral reef had been crushed to little pieces the size of his finger."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17102434&ft=1&f=1025
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President of Rwanda Announces Historic Forest Protection Project in Partnership with Earthpark and Great Ape Trust
President of Rwanda Announces Historic Forest Protection Project in Partnership with Earthpark and Great Ape Trust
Excerpt:
"Rwandan President H. E. Paul Kagame today unveiled his country's first national conservation park to promote reforestation and conservation, and research to enhance knowledge of the world's rapidly diminishing number of great apes. In collaboration with Ted Townsend, founder of Earthpark and Great Ape Trust of Iowa, President Kagame announced at the Clinton Global Initiative a joint 10-year program called The Rwanda Forest Protection Project. They will partner to develop both a national conservation park and field station for reforestation and conservation of great apes, including mountain gorillas, which currently number around 700 worldwide."
http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/4239
Excerpt:
"Rwandan President H. E. Paul Kagame today unveiled his country's first national conservation park to promote reforestation and conservation, and research to enhance knowledge of the world's rapidly diminishing number of great apes. In collaboration with Ted Townsend, founder of Earthpark and Great Ape Trust of Iowa, President Kagame announced at the Clinton Global Initiative a joint 10-year program called The Rwanda Forest Protection Project. They will partner to develop both a national conservation park and field station for reforestation and conservation of great apes, including mountain gorillas, which currently number around 700 worldwide."
http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/4239
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