Nature Conservancy Magazine: Spring 2008

Flora & Fauna They may be heavyweights, but hippos are getting harder to find. See them in this photo feature.		Subscribe to Nature Conservancy Magazine This great content isn't available on newsstands. Become a member of The Nature Conservancy today and start receiving this award-winning magazine.

The Poverty Question Reducing poverty is at the top of the world’s development agenda. Five conservationists discuss what that means for their chosen field.

Sea Greens Just off the coast of central California, underwater forests of giant kelp get a new lease on life.

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Departments

Human Nature
Giving nature a bad name.

Reviews
Imagining the ends of the Earth and celebrating a year of natural wonders.

From the President
Preserving nature’s bounty.

Additional Features

Painting in Plein Air
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays the Washington Society of Landscape Painters from their appointed subjects.

Interview
Nature Conservancy invasive-species specialist Sílvia Ziller is on a mission, but she still has time for a little magic.

Now & Then
Imperiled fish species find a new home on an historic ranch.

NewsFront

Indigenous Activists
A Struggle for Ancestral Lands Brings a Conservation Victory in Ecuador.

Under Fire
Record Number of Wildfires Hit Conservancy Preserves in 2007.

Glacial Retreat
Conservancy Scientists Find China’s Glaciers Are Shrinking.

Ballot Battle
Voting to Keep Sprawl in Check.

Timber Tolerant
Younger Species Better Able to Cope with Logging in Borneo.

The Truffle Hunter
Discovering New Species in Southern Oregon.

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Images (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Kim Wolhuter/National Geographic Image Collection (Hippo); © Lynn Johnson/National Geographic Image Collection (Poverty); © Marc Chamberlain / SeaPics.com (Kelp); © Frans Lanting/Minden Pictures (Hippo); © Nicolas Reynard/National Geographic Image Collection (Poverty); © Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures (Otter); © Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures (Hippos); © Yva Momatiuk/John Eastcott/Minden Pictures (Bald Eagle); © Christian Ziegler (Red-Eyed Tree Frog); © Stan Fellows (Meadowlark); © Andy Anderson (Painter)

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