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Plato & Music, Hope for AIDS Prevention, Cassava Sting Operation
Podcast 76: Plato's writings had a hidden musical structure. AIDS prevention efforts in Africa report some breakthroughs. Mounting an insect war to protect Thailand's cassava crops. »
A DDT Controversy, Reforesting Ghana, Senegalese Healers
Podcast 26: Controversy over DDT and malaria in Uganda. Traditional healers upstage Western doctors in Senegal. Planting trees, to forestall climate change, in Ghana. »
Lunar Landing Anniversary, Solar Eclipse, Chimpanzee AIDS
Podcast 24: Wild chimpanzees get AIDS. The 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, from a Russian perspective. Chinese culture and the solar eclipse. »
A Swine Flu Special
Podcast 12: A Mexican hospital copes with swine flu, China tries to ward off the virus, and the U.S. remembers a 1976 outbreak. Plus dancing birds, asteroids, and dinosaurs. »
The World Science Forum
Saving Wild Tigers
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
The future for tigers looks dismal. Poaching and habitat-loss threaten the last remaining tigers in the wild.
"If there isn’t an incentive to make live tigers worth more than dead tigers, we’ll lose tigers,” says John Seidensticker. He is a conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington D.C. and is an adviser for the Global Tiger Initiative.
Seindesticker is also the guest in our latest World Science Forum.
Learn how we can protect wild tigers. Join the online conversation. The discussion is live now!
The World Science Podcast
