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Development by humans is rapidly overwhelming the natural envionment, according to John Terborgh, Already,
he says "the global balance stands at roughly 5 percent for nature (counting only parks and other strict nature
preserves) and 95 percent for humans" and the inevitable growth of the human population will make matters
worse. Moreover, parks as they are now operated rarely work well. Even in developed countries, they are often
too small to encompass the full spectrum of plant and animal life, and in developing countries they are
poorly run. Terborgh, a professor of enviromental science and botany at Duke University, has a few suggestions
for improving the situation - national conservation trust funds, strict policing of protectd area and the
internationalization of nature protection - but he does not seem optimistic that they will be widely adopted.
September 1999 Scientific American, page 103c
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