156 Biological Conservation Institute, a non-profit organization. He will be assisted by Grant P. Thompson, ELR Associate Editor, and Thomas Guilbert. The Environmental Law Institute was organized in December 1969 under sponsorship of the Public Law Education Institute and the Conserva- tion Foundation, with funding from private foundations and individuals. Mr Anderson says that no such 'basic comparative work' in environmental law as the NSF grant calls for has previously been attempted. The project will take one year to complete. The four principal objectives are: (1) To survey the existing federal environmental laws and identify the key issues that have arisen under their application. (2) To analyze, on a comparative basis, the social and legal issues raised--especially where the laws have been developed at different times, with differing intents, and are administered by different agencies. (3) To reconcile, where possible, apparent con- flicts in laws by a probing analysis of the statutes, the legislative history and intent, court decisions, and administrative actions. (4) To suggest the areas and issues requiring attention from Congress, the courts, legal scholars, and scientists. Invited authors, lawyers, economists, and political scientists, who are expert on various aspects of environmental controls, will each write a chapter for the book. About 20 chapters are planned, seeking to cover the whole field. The project comes under the NSF programme of Research Applied to National Needs (RANN). RANN's Division of Social Systems and Human Resources and its Division of Environmental Systems and Resources are jointly sponsoring the work. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality have both offered cooperation in the project, and a CEQ official will serve as chairman of an advisory group. FREDERIC W. COLLINS, National Science Foundation, 1800 G Street, Washington, D.C. 20550, USA A BRIDGETO SAVETHE TIGER IN NEPAL Tigers and other wildlife in the Sukla Phanta Reserve in western Nepal can now be protected against poachers throughout the year with the completion of a river bridge built with World Wildlife Fund aid. The World Wildlife Fund's Indian National Appeal pro- vided funds for the bridge to be built by the Nepalese authorities. The 90-ft (27.5-m) bridge over the Banhani River will enable patrols to reach the main Sukla grasslands where Nepal's only remaining Swamp Deer congregate and attract Tigers. The area was vulnerable to poaching because of difficulty of access. In a report to the World Wildlife Fund, Mr John Blower, Wildlife Management Adviser in Nepal of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), says that he saw some 800 Swamp Deer in the area and believes the total population to be more than 1,000, making it one of the largest surviving populations of this species (Fig. 1) in the Indian sub-continent. ! Fig. 1. Swamp Deer (Cervus duranceli) in Kazirangi Wildlife Sanctuary, India. Photo." Peter F. R. Jackson/ WWF. Mr Blower estimates that Sukla Phanta has 15-20 Tigers,* making it an important sanctuary for this seriously-endangered giant cat. It is estimated that only 2,500 Tigers may remain in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and the World Wildlife Fund is making a special effort to raise funds for their conservation--notably through 'Operation Tiger', a $1 million appeal launched at the 19th Meeting of their Board of Trustees on 27 October 1972. WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, La Gracieuse, 1110 Morges, Switzerland * All shooting of Tigers, and the import and export of Tiger and Leopard skins, was banned from 1 March 1971 by the Government of Nepal--see Biological Conservation, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 226, 1972.--Ed.

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156 Biological Conservation

Institute, a non-profit organization. He will be assisted by Grant P. Thompson, ELR Associate Editor, and Thomas Guilbert. The Environmental Law Institute was organized in December 1969 under sponsorship of the Public Law Education Institute and the Conserva- tion Foundation, with funding from private foundations and individuals.

Mr Anderson says that no such 'basic comparative work' in environmental law as the NSF grant calls for has previously been attempted. The project will take one year to complete.

The four principal objectives are:

(1) To survey the existing federal environmental laws and identify the key issues that have arisen under their application. (2) To analyze, on a comparative basis, the social and legal issues raised--especially where the laws have been developed at different times, with differing intents, and are administered by different agencies. (3) To reconcile, where possible, apparent con- flicts in laws by a probing analysis of the statutes, the legislative history and intent, court decisions, and administrative actions. (4) To suggest the areas and issues requiring attention from Congress, the courts, legal scholars, and scientists.

Invited authors, lawyers, economists, and political scientists, who are expert on various aspects of environmental controls, will each write a chapter for the book. About 20 chapters are planned, seeking to cover the whole field.

The project comes under the NSF programme of Research Applied to National Needs (RANN). RANN's Division of Social Systems and Human Resources and its Division of Environmental Systems and Resources are jointly sponsoring the work. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality have both offered cooperation in the project, and a CEQ official will serve as chairman of an advisory group.

FREDERIC W. COLLINS, National Science Foundation, 1800 G Street, Washington, D.C. 20550, USA

A BRIDGE TO SAVE THE TIGER IN NEPAL

Tigers and other wildlife in the Sukla Phanta Reserve in western Nepal can now be protected against

poachers throughout the year with the completion of a river bridge built with World Wildlife Fund aid. The World Wildlife Fund's Indian National Appeal pro- vided funds for the bridge to be built by the Nepalese authorities. The 90-ft (27.5-m) bridge over the Banhani River will enable patrols to reach the main Sukla grasslands where Nepal's only remaining Swamp Deer congregate and attract Tigers. The area was vulnerable to poaching because of difficulty of access.

In a report to the World Wildlife Fund, Mr John Blower, Wildlife Management Adviser in Nepal of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), says that he saw some 800 Swamp Deer in the area and believes the total population to be more than 1,000, making it one of the largest surviving populations of this species (Fig. 1) in the Indian sub-continent.

Fig. 1. Swamp Deer (Cervus duranceli) in Kazirangi Wildlife Sanctuary, India. Photo." Peter F. R. Jackson/

WWF.

Mr Blower estimates that Sukla Phanta has 15-20 Tigers,* making it an important sanctuary for this seriously-endangered giant cat. It is estimated that only 2,500 Tigers may remain in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, and the World Wildlife Fund is making a special effort to raise funds for their conservation--notably through 'Operation Tiger', a $1 million appeal launched at the 19th Meeting of their Board of Trustees on 27 October 1972.

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND, La Gracieuse, 1110 Morges, Switzerland

* All shooting of Tigers, and the import and export of Tiger and Leopard skins, was banned from 1 March 1971 by the Government of Nepal--see Biological Conservation, Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 226, 1972.--Ed.