There’s good news on the Maine coast! Atlantic puffins and three species of terns – including the endagered roseate tern – have come back to breed in record numbers on former nesting islands. Sea Bird biologists working for the National Audubon Society counted 4,500 pairs of common, artic, and roseate terns on the five islands they currently manage, as well as 38 pairs of puffins at two recently re-established colony sites.

In the summer of 1992 the South Korean firm Hyundai was about to clearcut the remote Bikin River Basin of the Russian Far East, forest home of the rare Siberian tiger. In a country where mail delivery is spotty at best, FAX is unreliable, and the telephone is about as useful as two tin cans tied with a string, contacting the international environmental community in time for help was a near impossibility. But help arrived in this primitive outpost in an unexpectedly high-tech form – electronic mail.

The high water marks are clearly visible on the red rock formations that tower over the wild lands of the Utah desert. Millions of years ago the ocean receded, leaving the wind and rain to complete the subtle sculpture that is the landscape of southern Utah.

In an effort to save the endangered South American vicuna from poachers, as well as Peru’s indigenous people from extreme poverty, communities in the High Andes have begun to live-shear this endangered South American relative to the IIama and reap the profits from its much sought after wool.