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A major cause of habitat destruction is poverty, as people cut down trees for firewood and/or to clear land for slash and burn farming, and kill wild game for food. The major cause of poverty is corrupt government, enforced at the point of a gun. Isn't it a little short sighted to suggest, as some have done on this site, that we should restrict the availability of small arms, ignoring the fact that often the only remedy for corrupt government is armed resistance?
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mega transect by michael fay open a lot of enteres to my student as i relate this astonishing study of wildlife. this will keep each children a piece of story to live with.
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My 10 yr old daughter raised toiletries for the Ugandan orphanage called Noah's Ark that we read about in an issue of NG. We want to ship the soaps,toothbrushes and toothpastes to these children but the fedex charges exceed $600.00. We cannot afford this. Is there a distribution place in the US where we can send the items to and then they are forwarded to the orphanage? Please help us. Betsy Cohen
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mari kita selamatkan dunia ini dari kehancuran akibat kesalahan manusia, mari kita jaga lingkungan ini dengan hati nurani
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it is realy a good news to find some people care of us Hamid Abu gasim Africa
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Forget regret or life is your's to miss.
A friend told me to look fo the Love: Chemical Reaction artical...and it brings me to this. Well, to all you whiny little conformists I say GET A LIFE, RIDE YOUR BIKE, GET A TATOO, JUST PLEASE STOP SITTING AROUND POSTING COMMENTS NO ONE IS EVER GONNA READ.Oh man... why am I posting a comment then if no one is gonna read it?
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I remember reading an article on Henna Tattoos a long time ago in one of the issues of National Geographic and I was looking for one of the pictures that was in that issue. It portrayed a pregnant woman getting a Henna Tattoo drawn on her stomach. Can that be found anywhere?
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Why is it so difficult for me to
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April 2006 cover?
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I like the symbology of the cover photo for the "Fall of the Wild" story in O5/06 edition. The immense nearly untouchable,its potential supply; for the predacious hunters of the world. Beings being what they are tell parables associating themselves to far wider impacts than what they "must" do. Obviously what humans must do in the Arctic is a matter of choices made and unfolding options of competence, not the unthinking syllogism of survivalism ~ isn't that correct? And since what we must do is an economically ethical set of choices weighted by environmentally ethical wings what shall fly there?
Can we as humans there be as we are meant to be and tell a parable most importantly to our progeny of how greatly we assign worth to the existence our earth need not even evaluate? See how differences mark the existential state. Debate is about diversity first not the dollar first.
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Earthquakes,
Hurricanes, Nuclear
Power, and other
issues featured in
several of the last N.
G. Magazines, have
alerted our attention
to many needs in this
country. Perhaps we
need a new and
different direction
from our government.
Instead of trying to
set up democracy in
areas that are too
dangerous or not
accustomed to any
type of democracy,
we should instead
look at ourselves with
the threat of natural
disasters, oil
dependence, our
power grids in the
east are in disrepair,
Fema is ineffective.
Why spend Billons of
dollars on troubled
areas of the world
when we have so
much to do here in
this country. A better
and more abled
America would be a
benefit to the rest of
the world.
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In my life at least onetime want to see this heavenly places,
Beauty of nature is peace of heaven it is here
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slt tt le monde .donnez moi des renseignement sur l'imigration en Afrique du sud
merci d'avace
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I quote from the Megaflyover introduction: "For the next year he will fly over the continent in a Cessna, looking for key ecoregions where wild Africa still survives. Why is it important to save wildlife that has experienced little or no human impact? How can such preservation efforts be achieved?" Interresting then that the majority of the Google Earth pictures are NOT of "key ecoregions", but rather settled area such as farms, traditional rondovals etc. You flew past the Drakensberg with only one picture of "These white-owned farms grow wheat or graze sheep". How informative. Please tell me you know this to actually be true. What of the wild coast, the Garden Route and many many many more ecologically sensitive areas. If you must make rhetoric, then where are the Cape wine farms with shared ownership in your portfolio? Didn't reaserch that bit of South African human geography? The Kruger National Park? Okay, you posted a picture of the south river border and two other colourful settlements nearby. Well done Mike. For a country you praise for redevelopment and active introspective thinking, your Google Earth pics are uncharacteristically skewed from your article. Keep up the good work, I mean that, but stick to what you are good at, stick to the conservation. Think about this. How many people read your articles vs how many people stumble across your pictures on Google Earth. What message do you think you are giving? What message are you trying to give? What message are you actually giving, given the feedback you get? You are the journalist, you have a responsibility and a duty. You would never get away with such journalism if these pictures were of America or Europe!
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The "Love, The Chemical Reaction" article in the February, 2006, issue of the National Geographic appears to equate romance with youth and procreation. The old couple on pages 46 and 47 are seen sitting apart (in separate pages, actually!), and for them it is "commitment and concern", not romance. The other four pictures all portray young people in romantic bliss. At 61 I don't feel any less passionate or romantic than when I was younger. So either I happen to be an exception (I don't think so!) or the article is stereotypical. Charles Fiott
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RE: Love and OCD (a
lament)...So much for loneliness
In bottomless pits of azure;
So much for happiness
In an endless bliss of
rapture-
They found it in the brain:
Loving is akin to the insane!
But a little bit of this
prescribed
With little bits of that,
In a few more generations
(With a feather in our hat),
Our children will read
Shakespeare unashamed,
Innocent of all that he
proclaimed-
And finally we will be
Rid of our humanity
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I am writing in regards to the December 2005 issue. I had taken a class on dinosaurs in my under-graduate studies and found some of the information a little controversial on the Thalassomedon. We were always told by my professor that the pressure of the water, in regards to lung capacity and trying to breath through a narrow tube would deem very difficult. So what I am trying to say, is that with the Thalassomedon; depicting it deep under the surface and having its head trailing along with the Asopelix, well wouldn't there be difficulty when it needed to breach? I am assuming that it would have needed more shallow water in order to get a full breath of air into its lungs. That it simply couldn't just pop its head out of the water while its body remained deep under the surface. It is a lot like trying to draw air through a straw while you are under 3 cubic feet of salt water, you would feel like you were having an asthma attack.
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Just a brief note: while reading my January issue, I came upon the article about the Lynx's.
Sometime in September of last year, I was in the area of Rio Rico, AZ, and a beautiful Lynx crossed the road in front of my car. I was very surprised to see a Lynx this far south, but we were going slow, and the cat took it's time crossing the road. It was a Lynx. Rio Rico, AZ is about 65 miles south of Tucson. The Lynx was heading north.
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With regards to Joel Sartore's remarks in Great Journeys of the World (Nov. 2005 Issue),concerning his favorite places to photograph, he would indeed be lost if he attempted to photograph Arches National Park near Mojave, Utah. You at National Geograpic should know that would be better accomplished near Moab, Utah.
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what a disappointing article ln love as only heterosexual love is worthy of mention. I echo another person in the forum. Where are the diverse voices? Have you too been hijacked by a conservative right wing agenda? I hate the plastice wraop on the magazine already. maybe I will think several times before renewing if my voice and that of my non heterosexual brothers and sisters is not considerd worthy of love in your article. heterosexuals already get more than enough publicitiy. I have a theory about all their touching each other in public: heterosexuals have very short term memories and if not in contact at all times they forget who they are with. Mary Anne Joyce Portland OR
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I just scrolled thru your responses, below. My opinion? without your magazine to carp about, they'd have no life at all. I'm surprised so many heterophobes, and amoraphobes read. Probably all the whips n' leather.
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I don't know how to install Google Earth. I've got a notebook and it's more than 2 years old. Maybe it's too old for this?
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Trying to find the ' Google Earth ' mentioned in January's magazine. I downloaded it and fly over London regularly, but my friend cannot seem to get it by keying www.ngm.com. Why ?
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re: love issue
Heterosexuals, heterosexuals and more heterosexuals. Was it intentional to view the world of love as devoid of a natural diversity? If your agenda is to promote prejudice I feel you can not be welcome in my home. I will think twice come time for my renewal.
D.L. Malisky
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I did not subscribe to National Geographic for, and I was sorely disappoinated in, seeing "Love" featured in the February issue. If I wanted to read about Lauren Slater's henna tattoos on her breasts and belly I would have purchased a copy of Playgirl or some such magazine. Why don't you stick to "Geographic" and stop reaching out to God-knows-whom with such nonsense.
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Today there are only 5000 tigers left in the world! There are five subspecies of tiger. Of these 5000 tigers, India is the home of 2500 tigers. Jim Corbett National Park in northern India and Sundervan in West Bengal are the main habitates of tigers in India. Indian government has started Tiger Project to increase this endangered specice. Still many tigers are killed illegally, especially in Jim Corbett National Park, by local hunters. China is the largest buyer of hunted tigers as it uses tigers for traditional medicine. We must stop all these. Otherwise our children will only be able to see these tigers in pictures!!
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Good Morning to You
I just want to write to thank you for such a fasinating site.When I sit infront of my computer I lose myself in your world and my time.I have seen the many Wonders of the World.Places Creatures and peoples of the world.Thankyou
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Do not go to ngm.com to find Google Earth. Use the Google search engine and type in "earth" and click on "search". Once the next screen comes up, click on "Search Google Earth". When that comes up go to the right-side of the screen and click on "Get Google Earth, Free Version" and go from there. I finally found it!
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I would love to give an opinion, but I can't even find the Google Earth. How do I find it on your website?
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I thought it was beautiful & fasinating. I wish I could be there, besides Michael is also beautiful.
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Much reflection regarding
eros and the end of in your
feature on Love (February,
2006)...Indeed, when
perscribed Celexa to combat
anxiety and depression, my
libido took a nosedive, my
partner did not seem nearly
as desirable, and we had
been together a little over 4
years. We recently split up,
and I reconsidering his
hypothesis that the waning of
our relationship may have
been the result of
antidepressants, and what
you seem to have described
as the "four year itch" (my
words). Neither of us have
children, and we are both in
our early 40s.I am sending a
copy of this article to him,
and who knows?
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This is a wonderful thing Mike Fay has done. Both the megatransect and the flyover will give lasting information to African biologists about what is left and what must be done to save what is left!
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Your site on google earth at ngm.com is difficult to work out. I wanted to zoom in on Iceland, all to no event. It did not WORK
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HOW DO I FIND THE FLYOVER DESCRIBED IN JAN ISSUE? NOT OBVIOUS AT NGM.COM.
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No lovely planet Earth when I entered ngm.com. I went to Search & got the Flyover page. Please be more helpful with directions for us non-nerds!
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I was wondering at what altitude you were flying to be able to see that the farms and other places you refer to as being "white owned" were in fact as you say. Even if they were - what difference does it make? You have spoilt what would have been a most interesting project for me as a nature and wildlife lover. Many "whites" in South Africa are particularly sensitive about our past, and didn't all agree with what happened here. Fortunately it is changing, but, please refrain from the racial overtones.
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¡¡ is fantastic !!
¡¡ es fantastico !!
SOY ESPAÑOL
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I formerly lived in Upington (Northern CApe, SA), the area where Mike made the comment about the huge grave yards and that people give Aids, Malaria or dehydration as the cause. The picture is of a normal city cemetery (it's just that dry there) and although it has its fair share of AIDS related deaths, there are no malaria close to that area and as it is located on the banks of the largest river in South Africa, the Orange River, so I doubt dehydration is a problem. A lot of his comments seem a bit uninformed...
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Joel Achenbach's "Who Knew?" September 2005
National Geographic p.1
"...looking for bones in all the right places" suggests two points: (1) bones were found in all the wrong places in the island west of Bali [Time Nov 8, 2004]Indonesia, and (2) the process of evolution can be observed in cross-species-lines diseases, that is, those that require the least adaptation to jump species, like HIV/AIDS. thomas mcclure tm
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Joel Achenbach's "Who Knew?" September 2005
National Geographic p.1
"...looking for bones in all the right places" suggests two points: (1) bones were found in all the wrong places in the island west of Bali Indonesia, and (2) the process of evolution can be observed in cross-species-lines diseases, that is, those that require the least adaptation to jump species, like HIV/AIDS. thomas mcclure tm
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bravo pour votre site , avec des commentaires en français ce serait parfait
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I hope your journey will take you over Angola as well. This is a country rarely portrayed in terms of wildlife and nature and unfortunately does not seem have any well functioning parks. Also want to know if the Palanca Negra actually exists or not since no evidence presented for many years?
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May I question why you feel the need with your landmarks on Google Earth in South Africa to specify "white owned"....etc etc....
I see no landmarks picked out specifying...."black owned" homes, farms etc!! What on Earth does such blatant propoganda serve in your cause for wildlife conservation?
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