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NEWSLETTER - Volume 14 - September, 1998

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Dear Participants,

We hope that your school years are going well. Many of you have just started your new school year while others are in the last few weeks of the term. We sure hope that all is going well with any projects you are involved in. We are sending this newsletter out to the group as a whole, but we are also sending out individual letters. The purpose of the individual letters is to find out which participants who signed up last Fall and haven't sent in any reports are wanting to remain in our project.

We certainly hope that all of you wish to stay...as we have great plans for our project - which include you all! ;-) One of our plans is to launch a new extension to our site...we will be sending out a call for collaboration to you soon on it. It involves choosing an endangered plant or other species to research. It also involves participants getting more actively involved if they wish, by adopting a wildlife preserve, nature area, or zoo in your area to to projects or research with.

We will be providing many ideas along those lines in our newsletters, and we welcome any ideas from you.

One thing we need from you at the moment is a listing of nature preserves, zoos, wildlife areas, natural parks, etc...in your area (county, state, province, and even country if possible.) Just email the names, addresses, and URL's if possible, to us at:

One page on our new site will be listings of Nature areas. Also...if you know of any endangered plants, or other living organisms not already mentioned on our TENAN site, please feel free to send those as well. We want to thank all of you who have helped us keep our site updated so far and we encourage new and exciting ideas from our participants.

Ok, on to our news:

NEW PARTICIPANTS:

We have many new participants to tell you about...perhaps you know some of these...

AUSTRALIA: Cameron Smith and class - Rowville, Melbourne - Victoria, AU - endangered Australian animals

EUROPE - France: Agnes Boulot and class - Lycée International - école primaire - Saint Germain en Laye, France - students will be studying the wolf

UNITED STATES:

Alaska: Barb Veeck and students..(a past participant with new students making reports) -Nikolaevsk Elem/High School - Nikolaevsk, Alaska -a grizzly report and more.

Florida: Kirra, student at New Smyrma Middle School in Edgewater, Florida, will report on the Orca.

New Mexico: Joshua, student of Central Jr. High School in Lovington, New Mexico, will report on baby seals

Pennsylvania: 
Teresa Murray, teacher - Good Shepherd School in Minersville, Pennsylvania, no animal chosen yet

Teresa Moretta, teacher - Jenkintown Elementary School, Jenkintown, PA - 6th grade - many different animals

Levar, student at Linton Middle School in Penn Hils, Pennsyvania - will report on the Praying Mantis ;-)

Virginia: Edward, student at Douglas Southall Freeman High School in Richmond, Virginia - a report on the panda bear

UPDATES!!!

Take a look at a wonderful report on the Brown Hyena sent in by students at Eversdal Primary (teacher Andria Briers) in Western Cape, South Africa. Other animals to be reported on by these students include: African hunting dog, African elephant, and the Black rhinoceros. We certainly look forward to reading about these precious animals.

NEWS ITEMS...TAKE SPECIAL NOTICE OF THESE:

**There is a special Save the Sea Turtles Alert ...read about it at:

www.panda.org

some of the feature articles found at this site include:

"Tell the U.S. Congress to Save Protected Areas at Risk" and an "Action Alert for the Shrimp Turtle Dispute"

**WIN A FREE CD-ROM, ENTER THE CYBERTIGER QUIZ - Take the CyberTiger quiz today! If you answer all 6 questions correctly, you can enter to win a free CyberTiger CD-ROM. The winners will be the first two correct entries selected at random at the end of each week. Check it out at:

**Walk for Wildlife '98 - Now you can make this your year for the tiger - by joining over 15,000 supporters who will be taking to the hills, valleys, riverbanks and woods of the UK on 11th October to Walk forWildlife. Take in the glorious autumn scenery, and enjoy an invigorating day out with friends and family as you put your best foot forward for wildlife.

**NEWS: Ten per cent of the world's trees are threatened with extinction

Well, that is all for now. Be on the lookout for our call for collaboration on our new project on endangered species and Nature Parks.

If you have any questions... don't hesitate to email us.

Sincerely,

René de Vries and Joan Goble
(The Netherlands / Indiana - USA)