Volume 8, Number 1
Features
FORWARD THINKERS
A biologist in Hollywood, an insect tracker, a pair of ecological architects, and the new leader of the world’s largest conservation network. Here are a few people worth watching in 2007.
by Charles Alexander, Frances Cairncross, Eric Sorensen, and John Nielsen
VIRGINITY LOST
Pristine forests of the Amazon were not encountered in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; they were invented in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
by Fred Pearce
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Climate change will shuffle the deck of plants, animals, and ecosystems in ways we’ve only begun to imagine.
by Douglas Fox
Innovations
WILDLIFE FLIGHT RECORDER
An on-board computer revolutionizes the study of animal behavior.
by Eric Sorensen
PERSONAL CARBON ACCOUNTS
British scheme would cap an individual’s carbon pollution.
by Nick Atkinson
LAST WISHES
Green cemeteries fund conservation.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
CHORAL REEFS
An inexpensive device monitors ocean health through sound.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
Numbers in Context
ARE WE PUTTING TIGERS IN OUR TANKS?
The connection between biodiesel, land use, and habitat loss isn’t easy to pin down, but it isn’t easy to ignore, either.
Essay
STRANGERS IN OUR OWN LAND Print Only
by David Ehrenfeld
Journal Watch
A Little Vaccination Goes a Long Way
Hotspot Mismatch for Most-Imperiled Species
Honey Bees Get a Bump from Wild Brethren
Small Worlds Shed New Light on Habitat Loss
Showy Males Most Vulnerable to Warming
Tropics Are the Cradle of Biodiversity
Salmon Farms Create Deadly Clouds of Sea Lice
Books
A MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Lions are eating African refugees while conservationists look the other way.
reviewed by David Baron
Think Again
LIKE HUMANS, LIKE ELEPHANTS
by Martin Meredith