The late American naturalist Dian Fossey brought their plight to world attention, but it was two researchers working for the Wildlife Conservation Society, Bill Weber and Amy Vedder, who pioneered the idea of using ecotourism as a way to save the animals.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Radical suggestion for PETA: Want to save these animals from the pain of rubbing their noses raw at the foot of concrete dams, or from suffering and dying in the heat of deforested streams, or from being systematically over fished by commercial nets?

FORBES: PETA Still Has It All Wrong

Plant the trees, secure the soil, and you save the money, while simultaneously giving people employment and securing the future for animals like the golden lion tamarin.

BBC: Rio +20: Joining the ecological dots

There's always the emphasis on saving animals, but actually if you don't save the plants then everything will go extinct.

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The Italian Slow Food movement, which campaigns for traditional cuisine, has honoured 13 individuals and groups for their efforts to save and promote the world's heritage of tastes, flavours, animals and vegetable species.

BBC: Italy celebrates 'slow food'

For The Boy, as I'm calling him for the purpose of this article, to save his blushes, it's just a big mortuary filled with dead animals, apart from one very much alive, animatronic Tyrannosaurus Rex, that nobody sees fit to warn you about.

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