In 1971‚ biologist Roger Payne set out on what would be the first of many trips to Argentina. It was on one of these trips that Payne came across a female white whale and moved in close. "She was asleep‚" he recalls‚ "but after a while she opened her eye and looked me over. You would see her eyeball rolling in her head and then she closed her eye again. Basically‚ the whale was just saying‚ Well‚ if you’ve seen one of us‚ you’ve seen them all." Born in 1935 in New York‚ Payne has been studying whales
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What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith Compared to Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. Carolynn Hanson ENG125: Introduction to Literature (ABG1239A) Instructor: Corey King October 15‚ 2012 When comparing and contrasting the poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith with the short story Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. The poem and the short story are both great examples of the difficulty of life between different ethnic backgrounds. The Poem What It’s
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Centre Number Candidate Number Name UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education BIOLOGY Paper 3 Extended May/June 2005 1 hour 15 minutes Candidates answer on the Question Paper. There are no Additional Materials. 0610/03 READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen in the spaces provided on the Question Paper. You may use
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I chose to work on the first article “Accept no substitute: biodiversity matters” by David Dudgeon‚ as I often go hiking and field trips and enjoy the beauty of nature. I feel close to the topic and would like to know more about ecosystem conservation. In the article‚ the author argues that Hong Kong people and government should consider biodiversity conservation when developing lands for housing because development would cause irreversible harm to wetland and biodiversity located in some of the
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David Attenborough commonly known as Sir David Attenborough is one of Britain’s best and most loves Natural History Filmmaker. Along with this in his fifty-year career he has also been a broadcaster‚ producer‚ author and conservationist. To further enhance this long list of achievements David Attenborough is a Patron of the charity of the World Land Trust. David Attenborough and wildlife conservation Attenborough’s links to the World Land Trust go back quite a fare way and first began when
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World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved from www.wwf.org. The World Wildlife Fund is a nature conservation organization that began in 1961. Their mission is “to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature”. Their website provides a host of information ranging from habitats to endangered species and the threats that occur. Under the about us section‚ there are 40 of their employed experts listed. Each individual has a link that provides information about them including their education
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but that they still retained aspects of their traditional way of life‚ for instance hunting for food and driving teams of dogs. A major part of the passage is an account of a hunt for narwhal whales. Hunting is a very emotive issue and many conservationists argue that whales should be protected. Kari Herbert’s feelings are divided on this topic. She sympathises with both the narwhal and the hunters‚ who face incredible danger. They hunt in kayaks – flimsy canoes – in water so cold that they would
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resulting in 1500 arrests including Bob Brown ’s. Despite this the campaign continued to stop the Franklin River Dam construction and in 1982 the area was placed on the World Heritage List. The Hawke government (federal) was on the side of the conservationists and a large debate between the Hawke government and the Tasmanian government on the dam resulted in a Hawke Victory. The overruling of the federal government over state was allowed due to its signing of the World Heritage Organisation. The dam
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Kyesha Fuller March 14‚ 2013 Ms. Gaston Strategic Read II Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Book Report “The gift of being alone‚ I can never get enough.” In Genesis 2:18 the lord god said “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Looking through God’s eyes there are specific gifts of being alone. Aloneness is a rare gift but some people are afraid of being alone. If gods says being alone is a gift then
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left in its original state. View the “Bridger Teton Environmental Science” video located in the Ch. 2 WileyPLUS® Materials. Write two letters to the editor of your local newspaper. The first letter must be from the standpoint of a conservationist and the second one must be from the standpoint of a preservationist. Include in one of the letters a description of how the four steps of environmental risk assessment might be used to evaluate the risks of development of your resource.
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