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Saving the Species: A re We Doing It Right? By Anthony D. Marshall This essay was adapted from a lecture given by Anthony Marshall on October 27, 1994, at College of the A tlantic. Mr. Marshall is the author of the recently released Zoo (R andom House). He is a former American Ambassador to Kenya, the Seychelles, the Kingdom of Lesotho, Trinidad and Tobago and the Malagasy Republic. Mr. Marshall also served as the American Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environmental Program in Nairobi. Currently Mr. Marshall is a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, specializing in wildlife. He is a trustee of a number of educational and cultural institutions, including Brown University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American University of Paris. He is vice president of the Vincent A stor Foundation in New York City. During his visit to the college, in addition to presenting a public lecture, Mr. Marshall gave a presentation to students in Steve Ressel sinvertebrates class. In fifty years we may have no rain forests. Fifty-three acres of rain forest are lost ever) minute. Rain forests cover only two percent of the earths surface, yet they are home to nearly fifty percent of all living things. When species are lost, they are gone forever. The question of species survival is toyed with in conversation, but for the most part it is left to scientists and to future generations to conAT 1,1 r Jsider seriously. This situation cannot be lylan plays LrOC lallowed to continue. We must focus on Whether he Selece loss of wildlife and habitat now. tively saves one animal out of a species or attempts to save rom extinction a whole threatened or endangered species. fi Early man, wobbling back to his cave from the hunt would pick up a sharp rock and, raising it to the wall, make lines and animals. T
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