Secret service workers are rarely encumbered by vodka martinis, fast cars and pens that fire missiles. Most are humble researchers, who do all their snooping in libraries. Some monitor the foreign media, checking on television broadcasts, books and also the press. Others analyze messages from other countries, and turn them into concise intelligence reports. The [...]

So you want intelligence? Difficult work is the answer. And lots of busy people whose governments pretend they do not exist.
For governments, intelligence is any information from which helpful conclusions might be drawn. Politicians may deny it, but each and every government has an organization that gathers info; shadowy snoopers known as the intelligence forces, [...]

With most from the world’s renaming natural habitats surviving in underdeveloped countries, natural resource conservation strategies must consist of the interests of nearby human communities if they’re to be a success. Often when Western natural resource conservation experts draw up plans for nature reserves they neglect the requirements or traditions of the native human population. [...]

Once established, a protected area must be managed to maximize biodiversity. Protecting populations of uncommon species and species characteristic from the habitat should be a high priority. However, some naturalists argue that a region, once protected, should be left to nature. Others say that in order to stop uncommon species and habitats from disappearing careful [...]

Occasionally the population of an animal or plant is drastically reduced to only a couple of people by a major calamity. This is known as a genetic bottleneck. A recent example of this is a study from the lion population from the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. The study illustrates the dangers of reserves becoming ecological islands [...]

There are lots of theories put forward for all aspects of natural resource conservation. One important region involves the design of nature reserves. In 1968 two biologists, MacArthur and Wilcox, published their island biogeography theory, which looked at ecological factors this kind of colonization, extinction and succession on various islands around the world. Many people [...]

Human populations are increasing by leaps and bounds. This has put such great pressure on the land that the future of the world’s animals and plants hangs by a frayed thread.
The natural resource conservation is all about trying to protect the world’s ecology, organic habitats and the organisms that live within them. Unfortunately many organic [...]