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• Ecuador, in search of natural balance 

  On the world's waistline, the trees drip not only with rain but with treasures in feathered form. Like a kaleidoscopic plasma, a mixed feeding...

  World Watch, 03/01/06 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Winged messengers: does habitat loss signal biodiversity's death knell? Destruction of ecological living spaces is the greatest threat to the survival and preservation of the globe's wide array of animal and plant species - Ecology 

  DURING THE 20TH CENTURY, the human population mushroomed from 1,600,000,000 to more than 6,000,000,000. Settlers fanned out along spreading webs of...

  USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 11/01/03 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Landfill Magic - Europe's fabled white stork is flourishing in some unlikely places on the Iberian Peninsula 

  EVERY THURSDAY, you can find Jose Aguirre bobbing and weaving his mud- spattered green van through a grimy gauntlet of potholes, trash hunks and...

  National Wildlife, 08/01/02 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• The plight of birds: today, more than a thousand species of birds face extinction. Many more are in steady decline. Significantly, the strategies that can stop this attrition are the same strategies needed to achieve a sustainable human future 

  Very little remains of the rich wildlife that once flourished in Europe. Most of the wolves, bears, and bison are long gone. The few fragments of...

  World Watch, 05/01/02 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Cashing in on Conservation - economic benefits of wildlife watching - Brief Article 

  "Get over here. It's back," whispers a khaki-clad man into his walkie- talkie. His dispatch sends two forty-something Pennsylvania men into a...

  National Wildlife, 08/01/01 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• PRIVATE LIVES - In many parts of the country, great blue herons try to protect their families from nosy neighbors 

  Joe Witt stands belly high in mountain laurel shrubs, peering through his spotting scope at one of Virginia's largest "heron cities"-or what he can...

  National Wildlife, 08/01/00 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Watching vs. Taking 

  We are seeing a shift in human relationships with wildlife, as millions turn from taking other species for furs, food, or sport to just watching....

  World Watch, 07/01/00 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Painted Into a Corner - efforts to save the painted bunting songbirds 

  The declining population of the painted bunting songbirds have environmentalists and conservationists scrambling to devise ways to protect these...

  National Wildlife, 08/01/99 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Green awakening in a poor country 

  Honduras is one of the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere with 70% of its households below poverty line and 30% of its population unemployed....

  World Watch, 09/01/98 by Howard Youth · More from publication

• Neglected elders 

  Many reptile species and populations are facing the threat of extinction due to human development, destruction of habitat, commercial collection of...

  World Watch, 09/01/97 by Howard Youth · More from publication