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One Tree at a Time
By Karen J. Coates
TWO SMALL, BRAWNY MEN slosh through an icy stream, their cheap plastic sandals slapping slick rocks. They never break their stride, hurdling pools between boulders. On their shoulders, they tote a 100-pound slab of wood. This is how old-growth trees in Vietnam's highest, northernmost mountains are harvested: one by one, illegally,...
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Lure of the Stink Cock
By Laura Williams
A Russian photographer pursues a smelly but majestic bird known as the hoopoe
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© NIKOLAI SHPILENOK
  
Return of the Golden Fleece
By Tui De Roy
Peru's elegant vicuñas thrive once again, but are they as wild as ever?
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© TUI DE ROI
  
Awash in a Rising Sea
By Curtis A. Moore
How global warming is overwhelming the islands of the tropical Pacific
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© BOB KRIST
  
One Tree at a Time
By Karen J. Coates
By cutting and selling old-growth wood for a fraction of its worth, Vietnam's Hmong may endanger their long-term survival
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© JERRY REDFERN
  
 
Oh, What a Nest!
By Don Boroughs
Africa's wily sociable weavers are masters of architecture and adaptation
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© DON BOROUGHS
 


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