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Article: Islands of Hope: Lessons From North America's Great Wildlife Sanctuaries.(Review)
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- July 1, 2000
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Islands of Hope: Lessons From North America's Great Wildlife Sanctuaries by Phillip Manning (John F. Blair, $15.95)
For 500 million years, the largest living masses on Earth, coral reefs, have built themselves into rich habitats for other aquatic species, laying down as much as 40 tons of limestone per acre a year. Coral began edging out the blue-green algae that dominated the seas for 3 billion years, says Phillip Manning as he explores "one of North America's best-preserved sanctuaries," Bonaire Marine Park in the waters near Netherlands Antilles.
Moving on to nine other wildlife refuges, Manning unveils natural history lore as intriguing as that of ...