News Roundup

  • Sumatran tigers and elephants will soon enjoy an additional 48,000 hectares of forest in Tesso Nilo National Park. Global NGOs (WWF, WCS) are working to reduce human-elephant conflicts in the area by planting buffer crops that elephants don’t like and patrolling the borders with domesticated elephants. According to the technical assessment by Save the Tiger Fund, Tesso Nilo was a Class III Tiger Conservation Landscape: a “landscape that has habitat to support some tigers, but with moderate-high levels of threat, and minimal conservation investment.” However, depending on where the additional land has been gazetted, the park may be able to support a much higher number of tigers.
  • This one seems to be making the rounds on the web. Unobtainium: “Engineers have long (since at least the 1950s) used the term unobtainium when referring to unusual or costly materials, or when theoretically considering a material perfect for their needs in all respects save that it doesn’t exist.” May I suggest we start referring to umbrella species as Unobtainium elegantis?
Posted by Tim on August 28th, 2008 • • Add a comment
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