Quoting Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>:
> However, in defense of the German people as a whole in their
response to
> Madagascar's situation, one of the largest -- in not the largest --
> conservation agencies that maintains an active presence on the island
> is the
> German Primate Center (DPZ), and for that they're to be greatly
> congratulated. They're doing everything they can to protect the
> remaining forest from either outright deforestation or further
fragmentation.

For one of my wife's Christmas gifts this year, I'll be donating money
to the Nature Conservancy.  They have given money to the Association
of Manambolo Natives (FITEMA) in Madagascar recently.  On the whole,
most enviromental groups are more politically active than ecologically
active.  The Conservancy, while it does some political work, also
takes on the problem in an economic way - by making ecologically
strategic areas in to private property.  Since the Conservancy buys
the land, they don't have to beg someone else to take care of it.
It's the libertarian method to conservation.  ;-)  More info at
nature.org.

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