They argue, too, that a few privately run nature centers in Westchester offer similar programs.
"You can't run nature in reverse," Mr. de Buys said.
This Gloucestershire-based company runs nature holidays, safaris, wildlife courses, walking trips and cruises in collaboration with conservation organisations in more than 30 countries.
It also runs nature-based activities for children in school holidays and has a farm trail to explore.
Her most recent book, "Running With Nature," written with Williams and published in June, is essentially a chronicle of a healthful lifestyle perfected.
Technology is my main area of interest and running in nature is the activity that provides me peace of mind.
When not cooking or watching Scooby-Doo, I'm running on nature trails or paths, or at the nearest food fast restaurant eating too many fries.
In the long run nature will survive, as it has the previous five extinctions.
[Associated Press] Working from a state-run nature preserve, Iran's "environmental gladiator" tries to raise his arid country's awareness of air pollution, climate change, desertification and deforestation.
The Voulkos display includes two of the "torn" stoneware plates he made in the 1960's and 70's, their surfaces disrupted by "accidental" fissures, gouges, abrasions and holes that mock the notion of perfection and seem, in their takeoff on tradition, to comment on the hit-and-run nature of history itself.
