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Author Archives: Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Elephants: The Slaughter is On

October 7, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

  With a worldwide ban in place since 1989 on trade in ivory, why is it possible throughout Southeast Asia to buy religious icons, amulets and trinkets carved from contemporary African […]

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Biodiversity, Endangered species, International, News, Photography

Frogs: Endangered Worldwide

October 5, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Frogs have been around for 250 million years, and despite what we might call their tenacity to thrive from an evolutionary standpoint, they are highly endangered from loss of habitat, pollution and  […]

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Biodiversity, Endangered species, International

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring: 50th Anniversary

October 5, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring marks its 50th anniversary this year with the new biography On a Farther Shore : The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder, (Crown, 512 […]

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Biodiversity, Books, Conservation, Ecology, Toxics

More Books: Questing

September 26, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

You have only to lift your arms to the keyboard and you’ll be whisked away by page-turners that promise an adventure. Not all are new releases. Oliver Sacks’s decade-old tale […]

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Books, International, Photography

Cities: A Plethora of Books

September 25, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

MUMBAI (India) is the fourth most populous city in the world – some 20.5 million people live in the metro area. When Katherine Boo began writing Behind the Beautiful Forevers: […]

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Books, Cities, Health, International, Photography

Cuba-U.S. Collaborate on Enviro Problems

September 22, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Nature does not respect political boundaries or, for that matter,  tropical storms, hurricanes, oil spills and toxic releases. Too little has been written about the state of biodiversity in Cuba, the risks […]

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Biodiversity, International

Spiders Galore

September 12, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The island of Guam is experiencing 40 times the number of spiders in years past. The reason is linked to a catastrophic loss of birds to brown snakes, an introduced species that […]

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Biodiversity, International

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