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Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 71

Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 71 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | 648 Izaak Walton League of America Global Resources ture inlays but by far the greatest recent use of ivory has been for hankos. These small ivory seals are used as a means of signing official documents in China Japan and Korea. A vegetable ivor y from the ivor y nut palm could be used in place of animal ivor y but so far the vegetable ivor y has not been accepted by Asians as a suitable substitute. Lenela Glass-Godwin Further Reading Feldhake Glenn. Hippos. Stillwater Minn. Voyageur Press 2005. Harland David. Killing Game International Law and the African Elephant. New York Praeger 1994. Nowak Ronald M. Walker s Mammals of the World. 6th ed. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 1999. Ray G. Carleton and Jerry McCormick-Ray eds. Coastal Marine Conser vation Science and Policy. Malden Mass. Blackwell 2004. Sukumar Raman. The Living Elephants Evolutionar y Ecology Behavior and Conservation. New York Oxford University Press 2004. Web Site National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Ser vice http www.nmfs.noaa.gov See also Endangered species Endangered Species Act International Union for Conser vation of Nature Resources as a source of international conflict United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Izaak Walton League of America Category Organizations agencies and programs Date Established 1922 Members of the Izaak Walton League of America pledge to strive for the purity of water the clarity of air and the wise stewardship of the land and its resources. They seek to understand nature and the value ofwild-life woodlands and open space. Background Founded in Chicago by fifty-four fishermen to protect fish habitat the Izaak Walton League of America IWLA has grown into a national organization of almost three hundred local chapters encompassing all conser vation activities. With a diverse membership of fishers hunters urban environmentalists and conservationists in general the IWLA is a