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Tour de Turtle
Online game captures people’s attention and stirs their conscience
By Peter Popham
Vol. 8 No 3 (July-Sept 2007) page 33

Remote Patrol
Nabbing poachers with metal detectors and satellite uplinks
by Eric Sorensen
Vol. 8 No 2 (Apr-Jun 2007) page 38

Buy 'em, Trade 'em, Protect 'em
Cap-and-trade system for park visitor permits
by Cameron Walker
Vol. 8 No 2 (Apr-Jun 2007) page 39

Is There Anybody Out There?
Fewer people are venturing into the national parks, and more are staying home in front of their Xboxes.
Vol. 8 No 2 (Apr-Jun 2007) page 40

People to Watch in 2007: Matthew Berman & Andrew Kotchen
Award-winning ecological architects.
by Charles Alexander
Vol. 8 No. 1 (January-March 2007) page 14

Last Wishes
Green cemeteries fund conservation.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
Vol. 8 No. 1 (January-March 2007) page 37

Fish Futures Print Only
George Sugihara thinks the way fish quotas are set is all wrong. Instead, he wants to tap into people's baser instincts by treating fish catches like tradable poker chips.
by Rex Dalton
Vol. 7 No. 3 (July-Sept 2006) page 22-27

Democratizing Taxonomy
Imagine a portable DNA barcode scanner that could transform people’s relationship with nature. Could such futuristic technology be to biodiversity what the printing press was to literacy?
by Marguerite Holloway
Vol. 7 No. 2 (April-June 2006) page 14-21

Live Rock
A new cash crop for the aquarium trade protects Fiji’s reefs.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
Vol. 7 No. 2 (April-June 2006) page 36-38

Connecting Flights
Never mind the road map for peace. An unlikely marriage between bird conservation and military aviation is thriving on one of the most divisive pieces of real estate on Earth.
by Frances Cairncross
Vol. 7 No. 1 (January-March 2006) page 14-21

Right Brain-Left Brain Conservation
Scientists and creative writers converge on long-term research.
by Nancy Bazilchuk
Vol. 7 No. 1 (January-March 2006) page 36-37

Moss Conservation behind Bars
Prison inmates help researchers cultivate threatened mosses
by Adelheid Fischer
Vol. 6 No. 3 (July-September 2005) pages 35-36

Liquid Assets
The Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico is a water factory. Can an ambitious federal program convince water users to foot the bill for the hydrological services?
by Katherine Ellison & Amanda Hawn
Vol. 6 No. 2 (April-June 2005) pages 20-27

Edge Walking on the Urban Fringe
One man’s uncompelling is another man’s biodiversity.
by Kevin Krajick
Vol. 6 No. 2 (April-June 2005) pages 28-34

Fueling Restoration
A new system Links ecological restoration to the hydrogen economy
by Sarah DeWeerdt
Vol. 6 No. 2 (April-June 2005) pages 38-39

Pipe Dreams
If the twentieth century was the era of the megadam and the ecological destruction of the world's rivers, the twenty-first century could be different. It could. But will it?
by Fred Pearce
Vol. 6 No. 1 (January-March 2005) page 20-27

Measure Us By Our Sage Grouse
by Jon Christensen
Vol. 6 No. 1 (January-March 2005) page 48

Creating Habitat on Farms
The Land Stewardship Project and Monitoring on Agricultural Land
by Brian DeVore
Vol. 4 No. 2 (Spring 2003) page 28-36

Taking the Bite out of Wildlife Damage
The Challenges of Wildlife Compensation Schemes
by Philip Nyhus, Hank Fisher, Francine Madden, and Steve Osofsky
Vol. 4 No. 2 (Spring 2003) page 37-40

Thinking Like an Ocean
Ecological Lessons from Marine Bycatch
by Scott Norris with Martin Hall, Edward Melvin, and Julia Parrish
Vol. 3 No. 4 (Fall 2002) page 10-19

Buy a Fish, Save a Tree
Safeguarding sustainability in an Amazonian ornamental fishery
by Scott Norris with Ning Labbish Chao
Vol. 3 No. 3 (Summer 2002) page 30-35

Relocating People out of Reserves
Voluntary resettlement as a conservation tool in Guatemala
by Cheryl Margoluis, John Beavers, and Marie-Claire Paiz
Vol. 3 No. 2 (Spring 2002) page 30-33

Harvesting Clams and Data
Involving local communities in monitoring: A case in Fiji
by Alifereti Tawake, John Parks, Pio Rad ikedike, Bill Aalbersberg, Veikila Vuki, and Nick Salafsky
Vol. 2 No. 4 (Fall 2001) page 32-35

Crossing the Border
A U.S.-Mexican partnership to save the parrots of Cebadillas
by Scott Norris
Vol. 2 No. 3 (Summer 2001) page 33-37

Linking Citizens with Scientists
How Illinois EcoWatch uses volunteers to collect ecological data
by Carolyn Latteier
Vol. 2 No. 2 (Spring 2001) page 31-34

Building a Species Recovery Program on Trust
The case of the Hawaiian crow (alala)
by Scott Johnson
Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 2000) page 35-37

Making Collaboration Work
Lessons from a comprehensive assessment of over 200 wide-ranging cases of collaboration in environmental management
by Steven L. Yaffee and Julia M. Wondolleck
Vol. 1 No. 1 (Spring 2000) page 17-25

Articles highlighted in Journal Watch:

Save Whales . . . and Money
Vol. 8 No 2 (Apr-Jun 2007) page 11

Enforcement Trumps Encouragement
Vol. 8 No 2 (Apr-Jun 2007) page 12

Ecotourists Will Pay More—a Lot More—to See Birds
Vol. 7 No. 2 (April-June 2006) pages 8-9

Culling Livestock Killers as a Conservation Strategy
Vol. 6 No. 3 (July-September 2005) pages 9-10

African Wild Dogs May Pay Their Own Way
Vol. 6 No. 2 (April-June 2005) page 8

Thousands of Divers Pivotal to Major Seahorse Survey
Vol. 6 No. 1 (January-March 2005) page 6