Dam threatens Thailand's finest teak forest. Belinda Stewart-Cox reports from Thailand, where a dam planned for the Mae Yom River would inundate the richest stand of natural teak forest left in the country. South Africa's ferns and fern scolars face uncertain future . Koos Roux at Kirstenbosch is the only professional biologist in the country working on South African pteridophytes. Not surprisingly, the conservation status of many species is not known at all.
Wild greens remain an important late winter food in the Mediterranean region.
Local people have gathered them for millennia, but some have expressed concern that the present scale of collection is no longer sustainable. Eileen Hogan and John Akeroyd report. Mozambique puts plant diversity before easy profits . US Environmental Football . The environment is becoming a political football between the right-wing Congress and interventionist Clinton Administration, leading to delay and paralysis in the implementation of environmental policy.