| Cairns lions to prowl in Perth Zoo
The delicate and potentially dangerous task of transporting two lions from Cairns to the other side of the country will begin later this morning. Two big cats from the Cairns Wildlife Safari Reserve are moving to the Perth Zoo because the Perth Zoo's only lion is getting old and ill. The Safari Reserve has the biggest pride in the country, so it has offered to share its big cats. Udo Jattke from the Reserve says the 160 kilogram brothers, Nelson and Mandela, will be loaded into specially made crates, driven down the Kuranda Range then loaded onto a plane. "One of the things we are pushing with the Perth Zoo is to let Perth know where these two came from," he said. "They came from Cairns, north Queensland, so that will be decorated all over their enclosure and obviously all over it in Perth to make it our sister city, if you want to call it that." Mr Jattke says the move has taken a lot of planning.
Slum Tours Spark Debates Over Propriety, Ethics of "Reality Tourism"
Mumbai's latest attraction seems an unlikely match for India's most cosmopolitan city: guided walks through Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum and home to over 600,000 people. For an afternoon, visitors give up the glamour of Bollywood for the grime of the hutments, where great industry and extreme poverty lie side by side. The tour has triggered interest and controversy among Indian and international press, inviting renewed attention toward the question of commercial poverty tourism (also called "poorism" or "reality tourism"). Defenders say excursions to impoverished neighborhoods raise awareness and generate income for the community. Critics consider such "urban safaris" intrusive, voyeuristic, and degrading. The phenomenon started in 1992 in the druglord-controlled favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and has since spread to other cities in South America, the townships of South Africa, and Kibera, Nairobi's largest and most infamous slum.
Kenya: Bekele Falls As Kenyans Sparkle
A carnival atmosphere engulfed the Mombasa Golf Course as Kenyans roundly welcomed the downfall of Ethiopia's five-time double winner, Kenenisa Bekele, with drumbeats. But the fiesta was just not about Bekele's legendary fall, whose news spread across the world like bushfire, but also Kenya's own season of harvest at the global championships at the end of which it literally stood on top of the world. Kenya won the 1-2-3 positions in the women's and men's junior categories. .
Wailing woods of Borneo
THE intrepid explorer is something of an endangered species. There's been enough digging and poking, seafaring and mountaineering over the last few centuries to render wannabe Columbuses and Cooks about as relevant as their astrolabes. But even the jaded traveller, sick from feasting on wildebeest lunches at the Serengeti, will pull out some of those old Bartholomews and Langenscheits from the clutches of dust and disuse at the mention of Borneo Hemmed in by a cirque of islands Sumatra and Java to the west and south, and the chaotic mess of the Celebes and the Filipino archipelagos to the east this cloistered Eden was used to a certain indulgence from Father Time but even that could do little to shield the island's chastity from the ravenous tides of commerce that swept across 17th century Asia.
TWRA to unveil proposals for upcoming seasons
What Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has in mind for the 2007-2008 hunting seasons will be unveiled Wednesday in Nashville. TWRA will preview its proposals for both the fall and spring when Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission meets in TWRA's Region II office building. Wednesday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. and Thursday's will start at 10 a.m. .
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