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Winter 2002 Japan’s modest mountaineer Junko Tabei has climbed the highest mountains in 30 countries and has many more peaks on her list. She explains in an interview how she started climbing and why, and warns of the growing risk of pollution as more and more people set their sights on the summits. Cyber-age animal tracking A hand-held computer adapted by South African scientists is helping to ensure the survival of complex tracking skills developed by African hunters over thousands of years. The device, the CyberTracker, is fast becoming an important tool for conservation and wildlife management in southern Africa. Borneo’s hands reach across millennia Just over a decade ago, Kalimantan, a region in South-east Asia as big as France, had never been visited by an archaeologist. Now a team led by Frenchman Luc-Henri Fage is revealing Kalimantan’s treasury of ancient cave paintings to the world. Birds of a feather flock together In the 1970s Stephen Kress, an American specialist in wildlife management, developed innovative methods to re-establish colonies of seabirds in the Gulf of Maine. Since then, using decoys, counterfeit eggs, recorded sounds of active colonies, and bird mating perfumes, Kress has expanded his method, which is helping to save seabird colonies in several regions of the world. In brief and Awards news Updates on several past Laureates in Africa, Central America and South America, and a brief analysis of the applications for the 2002 Rolex Awards for Enterprise. |
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