News Roundup--November

Luxury boxes for the birds Mere mortals may not be able to move mountains, but with material dredged from the Houston Ship Channel as it undergoes expansion, biologists and engineers in Texas have created a 6-acre, 12-foot-high island in the sea.

Study released on hog industry. Companies that buy hogs from farmers contribute to the problem of foul-smelling waste lagoons and should not shirk helping to finance alternate technology to handle hog wastes, an environmental group in Raliegh, North Carolina contends.

EUROPEAN UNION SPARES UK's BELOVED HEDGEROWS BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 21, 2000 (ENS) - The humble hedgerow that once defined the British landscape has been saved from widespread destruction thanks to an exemption granted under European law.

Fisherman gut Galapagos research center. Hundreds of Galapagos Islands fishermen, agitated by a 50-ton limit on lobster harvests for 2000, laid siege to the offices of the Charles Darwin Research Station in Santa Cruz, Isabela and San Cristobal islands for the second time this year.

This Holiday Season, Think Santa, Sleighbells and Sea Turtles!

From Caribbean Conservation Corporation, Monday, November 20, 2000 GAINESVILLE, FL - The Sea Turtle Survival League suggests a sea turtle adoption as the perfect present for anyone on your gift list. Despite their varying sizes, one size truly fits all! And even at 200 or even 1,000 pounds, this gift can still make it down the chimney with Santa or fit into a holiday stocking. Thinking of sleighbells? These turtles wear satellite transmitters and number tags instead. Feeling "Jack Frost nipping at your nose"? Visit the web site, www.cccturtle.org, to find out which species of sea turtle might swim so far north as to get a nip from Mr. Frost!

COLOMBIA'S ENVIRONMENT A CASUALTY IN U.S. WAR ON DRUGS By Brian Hansen, WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2000 (ENS) - The aerial fumigation program that has grown out of the U.S. government's so-called "war on drugs" is endangering the fragile ecosystems and indigenous cultures of Colombia's Amazon Basin, a coalition of groups warned today at a news conference on Capitol Hill. For full text and graphics visit:

KENYA'S MAU FOREST DISMEMBERED FOR POLITICAL PAYOFFS By Robert Otani, NAIROBI, Kenya, November 20, 2000 (ENS) - One of Kenya's few remaining moist forests is set to lose another 60,000 hectares (148,000 acres) of land, intensifying a conservation crisis brought about by the Kenya government's systematic destruction of the country's forest cover.

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