8th April, 2000
President’s Announcement
Source: Susy’s Kingdom Of Leonardo DiCaprio

A friend of mine found this:
To: National Desk
Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2100

WASHINGTON, April 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a transcript of remarks by President Clinton at the Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner last night:

Washington Hilton
Washington. D.C.

9:34 P.M. EDT
(Music from the movie, Titanic, is played.)
THE PRESIDENT: Haunting, isn't it? (Laughter.) You know, usually, I go for Hail To The Chief -- (laughter) -- but this week I can't seem to get that song out of my head. (Laughter.)
Good evening, President Nolan. Senator McCain, members of Congress, members of the Radio and Television Correspondents Association, distinguished journalists, Mr. DiCaprio. (Laughter and applause.)

Now, ABC doesn't know whether Leo and I had an interview, a walk-through, or a drive-by. (Laughter.) But I don't know if all their damage control is worth the effort. I mean, it's a little bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the set of This Week with Sam and Cokie. (Laughter.) Don't you news people ever learn?
It isn't the mistake that kills you, it's the cover-up. (Laughter and applause.)
Now, look, I want to say right now, I have nothing against ABC. I like ABC just as much as I like all the other networks.
(Laughter.) Just the other day, for example, Diane Sawyer came to the White House for an interview -- actually, she called it a "visit."
(Laughter.) And everything was fine until she asked me to do some crayon pictures in the Oval Office. (Laughter.) That was weird.
But I just want to say this to David Westin. You know, I've been in a lot of tough spots. Don't let this get you down. (Laughter.) You may not be America's news leader, but you're "King of the World." (Laughter and applause.)

8th April, 2000
White House, ABC Spar Over DiCaprio Interview
Source: Verne Gay - Newsday

What did ABC News executives know, and when did they know it? The Leonardo DiCaprio caper grew a little more heated yesterday, after the White House accused the network of parsing the truth over an interview between the actor and President Clinton that took place last Friday.
The interview - parts of which may appear on an ABC News "Earth Day" special later this month - caused an uproar in ABC's Washington bureau after senior staffers there learned that a famous actor got face time with the president. ABC News executives in New York earlier this week said a formal sit-down interview had not been planned and took place only at the president's insistence.
Not so, the White House said yesterday.
Said Deputy Press Secretary Jake Siewert: "They knew perfectly well it was to be an interview and had 15 technical people and took them four hours to set up. . . . I don't understand why they're trying to pretend it was something that it wasn't."
He added that ABC executives had "all along" requested a sit-down interview as well as a tour of the White House with the president. Because of time limitations though, the tour was canceled at the last minute, Siewert said yesterday.
Washington news staffers were particularly upset when they learned that DiCaprio would host the entire news hour.
"It sounds like we're never going to be in complete agreement (with the White House over) exactly what the expectations were beforehand," ABC News spokeswoman Eileen Murphy said yesterday, adding that it was "never" the network's expectation that "only" a sitdown interview was to take place. ABC still has not decided whether to use the DiCaprio interview in the special.

8th April, 2000
Free Leo
Source: Daily_DiCaprio@onelist.com

The White House has mounted a "Free Leonardo DiCaprio" campaign to get ABC to air a controversial interview the actor did with President Clinton. White House aides donned "Free Leo" buttons featuring DiCaprio's million-dollar face Thursday evening for the Radio & Television Correspondents Association 56th annual dinner at a Washington hotel, where Clinton himself spoke out on the issue. The president took the podium to Celine Dion's "Titanic" love ballad instead of the customary "Hail to the Chief." "This week I can't seem to get that song out of my head," he quipped. Last Friday, the movie hunk sat down with Clinton at the behest of ABC News, which insists the session was meant as a tour of White House environment-friendly upgrades for a special ABC News Earth Day program. But the White House says ABC requested a journalistic interview to discuss environmental issues with the president and arranged for DiCaprio to talk with Clinton rather than, say, Sam Donaldson or another reporter. The confusion over the circumstances and expectations of DiCaprio's afternoon at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has caused a media brouhaha. White House insiders say top officials, particularly spokesman Joe Lockhart, are angry with ABC over the flap. Lockhart has called on ABC to straighten out the matter publicly, but so far the network is sticking to its story. It's reportedly reluctant to air the tape amid the negative publicity. DiCaprio's people, meanwhile, say the actor came to the White House under the impression he would talk about environmental issues with the president, not just look at weather stripping. In any case, Lockhart says Clinton wants his conversation with DiCaprio aired because of the important issues raised during the session. As for the actor's stint as a reporter, Lockhart says the president thinks DiCaprio "did pretty well."

10th April, 2000
Memo to Leonardo DiCaprio
Source: Chicago Tribune

First of all, congratulations on being named celebrity chairman of this year’s national Earth Day. It warms my heart to see a successful actor and teen heartthrob use a little bit of that celebrity in support of a worthy cause.
Second, congrats on "Titanic." Just loved it. You were great, kid. Too bad there’s no chance for a sequel.
But mainly I am writing to offer something you are not receiving much of these days, a hearty welcome to the profession of modern journalism.
I know, I know … ABC News President David Westin has been backing away from the sit-down interview you taped with President Clinton in the White House for an Earth Day special on ABC on April 22.
I know that some of my colleagues kicked up a big fuss that a 25-year-old amateur such as yourself would get this assignment when there are so many more experienced journalists in ABC’s magnificent stable.
The New York Daily News reported that ABC news-star Sam Donaldson was "infuriated." Bernard Kalb, host of CNN’s "Reliable Sources," sniffed that the stunt "Hollywoodizes the most serious of subjects."
No, no, network spokesmen said, it was not an "interview," but a planned "White House walk-through" that turned into a sit-down, at the last minute.
The network pointed fingers at the White House, which pointed fingers back at the network. White House spokesman Jake Siewert said negotiations for a Clinton-DiCaprio interview began in February and that the crew arrived at 9 a.m. on March 31 to set up for the 12:30 p.m. interview, refuting the notion that the sit-down was a last-minute decision.
Either way, the day after the interview, ABC News president David Westin threw into question whether the interview would be aired at all.
In an e-mail to his troops, he said, according to the Washington Post, "We’ll take a look at whatever they’ve done and decide whether we can use any of it; it’s quite possible we’ll use none."
The White House had much fun with this. A "Free Leo" movement was launched to urge Westin to air the interview. "Don’t you news people ever learn?" a tuxedoed Clinton told Westin from the podium at the Radio & Television Correspondents Association dinner last week. "It isn’t the mistake that kills you. It’s the cover-up."
Poor Leo. Your first big story and it may get spiked. After three decades in this business, I feel your pain, pal.
Adding insult to injury was Westin’s line of reassurance to ABC employees in his e-mail that, "All roles of journalist must be played by journalists."
Well, now, that sounds like a tautology to me. Anyone who acts in the role of a journalist becomes, by definition, a journalist.
All of which raises the larger question: Who is a journalist these days? This is an era in which anyone with a little initiative, a lot of chutzpah and their own Web page can be, for better or worse, a journalist, as Matt Drudge and innumerable other renegades have demonstrated.
Also, with the proliferation of news channels on cable, pundits are being manufactured as soon as they step out of college.
Diane Sawyer? Now there’s a journalist and a mighty fine one, too, willing quite literally to take off her shoes and stand on her head to get an interview with Elian Gonzalez for "Good Morning America." I really and truly admire Sawyer’s ability to stand on her head with little Elian. She must have abs of steel. Try THAT, CBS anchor Dan Rather!
Even so, just days before the flap over the Clinton interview broke, ABC was receiving flak for possibly exploiting 6-year-old Elian in the middle of an international custody dispute. Network bigwigs were insisting that Sawyer’s Elian interview was not an interview, either. It was only a "visit."
Oh? When is an interview not an interview? When the interviewer says it isn’t.So, I want to give you credit, Leo, for beginning your taped chat with President Clinton by pointing out that you are neither "a politician nor a journalist."
No need to be defensive, Leo. Journalists sometimes appear in movies. Why can’t movie stars sometimes appear as journalists?
Besides, this multimedia era is changing so rapidly that the very term "journalist" is being replaced by the term "content provider." I can just imagine what schools of content-providing will turn out.
So, yes, I hope your interview gets aired. The public will let you know quickly enough whether your report was worth reporting.
By the way, since you may have a future in journalism - or content providing - do you think I might have a future in pictures? I’ve been told I do a pretty good close-up.

11th April, 2000
Go-Go Leo
Source: Star Magazine, L.W.D. Zine

Party boy, Leonardo DiCaprio, hosted a birthday celebration for a member of his posse and he didn't forget a thing. The all-night Hollywood bash had an endless supply of gourmet food, booze, and gorgeous go-go dancers - male and female! Leo wanted to make sure all his guests had fun, so he set up two stages - one for muscular go-go boys and another with voluptuous go-go girls. A good time was had by all.

11th April, 2000
ABC To Air Leo’s Clinton Chat
Source: Yahoo News

ABC got publicly spanked for its celebrity snafu, but network execs announced today they will still air a portion of Leonardo Koppel's... er, DiCaprio's interview with President Clinton.
The network apparently deemed Leo's 15-minute presidential eco-chat fit for the airwaves--this, in spite of complaints from ABC News staffers that a kid was sent in to do a real reporter's job.
Portions of the interview will appear during ABC's Earth Day special, airing April 22 at 8 p.m. ET. The network released a statement saying execs checked out the footage and gave it the green light.
"It was an editorial judgment made here with many senior management people involved," says ABC News spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. "Everyone is comfortable with the decision. But we're not going to discuss our editorial process."
Aaahh, the shrouded curtain of editorial secrecy. The interview was one of several good deeds Leo planned for Earth Day, including heading the EarthFair 2000 celebration in Washington, D.C.
DiCaprio's questions were reportedly developed with the help of segment producers. But his work took a back seat when ABC's journalists groused that the line between entertainment and news was blurred.
It's still not known how much of the Titanic hunk's chat will air for the special. But Murphy says the final product "will meet with ABC News editorial standards."
The network initially backpedaled from the whole ordeal, saying Leo initially was scheduled for a White House tour, not a sit-down interview. But White House officials say ABC always planned a face-to-face between Leo and Clinton.
”It's always been clear that [ABC News] wanted [DiCaprio] to come in and interview the president on the issue of climate change," White House spokesman Jake Siewert said. "[Leo] was fine. He didn't pretend to be a journalist, he made it clear he was acting as a concerned citizen."
And the White House had its own fun with ABC's debacle. During a dinner with TV and radio broadcasters last week, Clinton took some playful jabs, reveling in the chance to turn the tables on the media.
"Don't you news people ever learn?" Clinton joked. "It isn't the mistake that kills you. It's the cover-up."
Leo's people, meanwhile, say they were pleased with ABC's decision, but never assumed their boy would end up on the cutting room floor.
Well, at least not without being recycled.

12th April, 2000
Will It Air?
Source: Susy’s Kingdom of Leonardo DiCaprio

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) - ABC has decided to broadcast portions of an interview with President Clinton conducted by Leonardo DiCaprio that had raised questions about why a movie star was fulfilling a role usually handled by a journalist.
The network announced its decision in a terse news release on Tuesday, a day after ABC News executives screened the March 31 interview.
DiCaprio, chairman of the Earth Day 2000 celebration committee, talked to Clinton about global warming. The interview will appear as part of an Earth Day special produced by ABC News on Saturday, April 22 at 8 p.m. ET.
"It was an editorial judgment made here with many senior management people involved," said ABC News spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. "Everyone is comfortable with the decision. But we're not going to discuss our editorial process."
It's still not clear how much of the reported 20-minute chat between the "Titanic" star and Clinton will make it on the air. Murphy said the final product "will meet with ABC News editorial standards."
"In the end," she said, "we'll be judged by what is on the air."
Many journalists within ABC, particularly in the Washington bureau, were angered when they heard DiCaprio was granted the interview.
There was some dispute last week between ABC, the White House and DiCaprio's representatives over how it was set up. ABC News President David Westin said DiCaprio was visiting at the White House's request, with the understanding that the president might appear on film walking through the White House with the actor.
The White House said ABC had requested an interview and DiCaprio's spokesman, Ken Sunshine, said the actor was prepared to conduct one.
Westin had told ABC News staffers in an e-mail that there was a chance DiCaprio's White House footage would not be used at all. He was not available to talk about Tuesday's decision to go ahead, Murphy said.
Sunshine said that "we're delighted and always assumed that the interview would be included." He said DiCaprio will be consulted during the editing process of the special.
"He's perplexed that this became such a big deal," he said. "All he ever wanted and wants is for lots of people to learn a lot about global warming."
The special, with "20/20" correspondent Chris Cuomo as host, includes segments on coral bleaching off the Florida coast, urban sprawl in Atlanta and the effects of global warming on Alaskans.

12th April, 2000
Tune In! Earth Day Hits TV!
Source: The Earth Day Mailing List, Daily_DiCaprio@onelist.com

There is a lot of special programming and other exciting media in the works for the weeks leading up to Earth Day! Check out the Earth Day Network website at http://www.earthday.net for more details and new additions as plans are finalized.

APRIL 12-21
Cartoon Network USA will air a Captain Planet Climate Change Marathon, Monday through Friday, April 12 - 21 at 3:00 PM ET. The focus is energy-related episodes of the world's only environmental cartoon including Heat Wave, Greenhouse Planet and Twilight Ozone.

APRIL 14
Check out a special episode of Providence with Earth Day themes!

NBC 8:00 PM ET.
APRIL 15
The American President will air at 8:00 PM ET on TBS Superstation. It's a delightful story about a lobbyist working to slow global warming (Annette Benning) who falls in love with the President of the United States (Michael Douglas).

APRIL 16-21
CNN Special Earth Day Reports will be broadcast during the week preceding Earth Day. Ongoing Earth Day stories from reporters Gary Strieker, Natalie Pawelski, Sean Callebs, Sharon Collins and others will include topics such as Clinton's Environmental Legacy, Recycling Reality Check and a Big Picture Look at 30 Years of Environmentalism.

APRIL 16
CNN & Time profile three Heroes of the Planet: Jane Goodall celebrates 40 years of chimpanzee research and shares her current projects; Texas housewife Phyllis Glazer leads residents to resist harmful toxins released at a waste treatment facility; and California photographer Galen Rowell turned his love of the outdoors into award-winning photographs that build environmental awareness.

CNN 10:00 PM ET
APRIL 17
* In a special Earth Day episode of Family Law, series star Kathleen Quinlan trades in her gas-guzzling SUV for a new, environmentally-friendly hybrid Toyota Prius.

CBS 10:00 PM ET
* Once and Again, the popular ABC primetime drama, will air an episode with Earth Day themes.

ABC 10:00 PM ET
APRIL 19
Special Earth Day edition of Time magazine hits the newsstands, both in the US and around the world.

APRIL 21
* 12:00 noon ET
Join Denis Hayes for a special Earth Day chat on CNN.com
* ABC News special programming on global warming hosted by Leonardo DiCaprio, Chair of EarthFair 2000 on the National Mall in Washington DC. Air time to be announced.

EARTH DAY APRIL 22
* 7:30 AM ET - TBS Superstation
10:00 PM ET - CNN
Various times - CNN International
CNN USA and CNN International present People Count: Hot on the Trail, hosted by Jane Fonda. Photojournalist Barbara Pyle looks at climate change, both now and in centuries past, exploring the effects of a warming climate on Easter Island and in the bayous of New Orleans.

* 12:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Live webcast of the flagship Earth Day event in the US on the Mall in Washington DC. Join Chair Leonardo DiCaprio, celebrities, hot bands and inspirational speakers for four hours of fun. You can tune in to the webcast right from the Earth Day Network website at http://www.earthday.net !
* CNN will feature live reports from Earth Day events in Washington, DC and Los Angeles.

* 2:00-4:00 PM ET
Special NPR programming - two hours of live reports and interviews from the Mall in Washington DC along with special guests and pre-taped segments about global warming and clean energy. Steve Curwood and Alex Chadwick will host this special presentation.

Don't forget to get out of the house and be active! Find an Earth Day event to enjoy at http://www.earthday.net/dir/event.asp

12 April, 2000
DiCaprio Taking 'Librium'?
Source: Cinescape, Daily_DiCaprio@onelist.com

Nobody seems to have reported this before, but word has come out that Leonardo DiCaprio will be joining the Librium science fiction film production. According to the BBC, it will be DiCaprio, not the previously announced Taye Diggs, who will star in the film. The Insider couldn't let that one sit and placed a call to DiCaprio's reps. The actor's reps not only denied his participation in the production but they claimed to have never even heard of it before.
Nevertheless, it's also reported that location shooting on the film will take place in at the People's House in Bucharest, Romania. Once home of the late former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Shooting at the location is said to be scheduled in August.

12th April, 2000
DiCaprio Shooting Sci-Fi Film In Romania
Source: Daily_DiCaprio@onelist.com

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Leonardo DiCaprio plans to shoot a science-fiction movie in Romania this summer, with parts to be filmed in the palace of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.
Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed in the bloody anti-communist revolt in 1989.
Romanian lawmakers at first rejected Miramax's request to shoot in the People's House, which houses the Parliament. Andrei Chiliman, vice president of the Deputies Chamber, said that those who initially opposed the project last month "suffer of some psychological blockages" connected with the building.
Shooting for the film, called "Librium," is to start in August and will last roughly two months, said Calina Pirotici, spokeswoman for the Romanian Castel Film Studios, which is collaborating with Miramax.

13th April, 2000
Romanian Admits DiCaprio Deception
Source: Associated Press, L.W.D. Zine, Daily_DiCaprio@onelist.com

A Romanian film company said Wednesday its announcement that Leonardo DiCaprio would make a film here was just wishful thinking. Romania's Castel Film Studios had announced Monday that DiCaprio would star in a science-fiction movie, "Librium,'' to be shot in Bucharest in August. DiCaprio's agents, Ken Sunshine Consultants Inc., denied it Tuesday and Castel Film Studies backed off its previous statement. "It is common in the movie business to air well-known names before the casting is actually being done ... and DiCaprio's name was aired as a wish of ours, not as a certainty,'' Castel spokeswoman Calina Pirotici said. Castel had used DiCaprio's name while seeking permission from the Romanian Chamber of Deputies to use the parliament building for location shots, Pirotici said. DiCaprio's alleged travel to Romania was on the front pages of most newspapers here Tuesday.

13th April, 2000
Leonardo Interview WILL Air On ABC
Source: E! Online, L.W.D. Zine

IT'S ON ABC News has decided that it will air portions of Leonardo DiCaprio's much-criticized environmental chat with President Clinton during the network's Earth Day special on April 22. News chief David Westin told Variety's Army Archerd that ''it was always our intent to try to bring the message [of Earth Day] to the younger generation of TV viewers.'' Along those lines, next year's special may feature MC Babs Walters kickin' it with Sisqo in his phat solar crib.

14th April, 2000
Earth Day: More News
Source: Daily_DiCaprio@onelist.com

"LEONARDO DiCAPRIO made a promise last November when he announced becoming chair of Earth Day 2000’s big event on the Washington, D.C., Mall: to invest in a hybrid car that runs on both electric and gasoline. “You fill it up at any service station, it gets 60 miles per gallon and has 80 percent fewer emissions than most cars,” says DiCaprio. “It runs like any other car.”
No sweat. But to tackle global warming, we need to do much more, he said, such as “to dramatically increase the amount of power we get from clean sources, like the sun, the wind and bio-fuels.”
DiCaprio is pushing Earth Day 2000’s focal issue: Given our choices at this turn of the century, do we continue with “19th century production methods that harm the environment and create myriad health problems?” Or instead, do we turn to “new clean, innovative technologies?”
This millennial year, perhaps more than ever, Earth Day organizers are reaching out to youth. The timing couldn’t be better: Just this week, the group Environmental Defense released a survey that found the “younger generation is remarkably sceptical about past progress [on air and water quality], with 62 percent believing conditions are worse today and only 29 percent seeing conditions as better.”
The Web generation.
The new generation of green activists, not given to writing checks or even opening direct-mail solicitations, is turning to the Internet. Among Web resources:
• Earth Day 2000 events
• An Environmental Defense survey that found young adults are 20 percent more likely to go to the Web than baby boomers.
• Leonardo DiCaprio's Webcast pitch to the younger generation.
• The YMCA Earth Service Corps' "green maps," which chart urban areas for their natural and cultural features.

Sources: Earth Day Network, Environmental Defense, YMCA

Readying himself for April 22, the 30th Anniversary of the watershed event he helped launch as a college student, Denis Hayes, director of the Earth Day Network, revealed only faint traces of exhaustion over a campaign that promises to bring together half a billion people around the world to put forth “new environmental visions for a sustainable future.”
“Young people bring energy and fresh ideas, and if you say ‘try it,’ they’ll go out and actually do it,” says Hayes.
While government leaders wrangle over whether to institute carbon or gas taxes to create disincentives for using coal, gas, and oil, the fossil fuels, young people are coming up with better tactics, he says.
“Students began organizing boycotts of recruiters from petroleum companies and others that contribute to the problem,” he says. Egged on by students, he adds, universities began voting shareholder resolutions against companies in the Global Climate Coalition, the major lobbyists against carbon cuts in the Kyoto climate change negotiations. “Now British Petroleum, Shell, GM and Ford have all stepped off the coalition, and they have no corporations left - just trade associations.”
As the original environmental movement grays, it is being supplanted by younger and younger ranks of activists undertaking scores of volunteer actions, from reforesting urban trees, to weeding and removing invasive species, to adopting parks and putting on “sustainable energy” fairs. In contrast to the typical profile of an environmentalist with greater buying power - the suburban white woman - the new face of the movement, says Michelle Ackermann of Earth Day 2000, is “young and multicultural.”
DiCaprio, Ackermann says, was chosen by Earth Day campaigners as an apt “role model for young people,” and because of his stated interest in nature from an early age.
The actor also knows how thorny environmental issues can be, from personal experience. During the filming of The Beach, in which DiCaprio stars, a local environmental controversy erupted after the film producers arranged for a beach location to be stripped of native vegetation and replanted with imported palm trees. The area as since been restored and the issue resolved.
EDUCATION CURRICULA
Since Earth Day 1990, environmental education curricula have spread widely in U.S. schools, with some 70,000 schools nationwide now actively involved in the event. More teachers are integrating environmental stewardship into all subjects, says Rene Alexander, an environmental educator in Seattle schools. “You have more and more examples of teachers presenting what they learned - about pollution in air or streams - to city hall.”
For the young, says Ackermann, conservation and care for nature is intuitive: “They haven’t lost the wonder of discovery.” Not yet jaded by pessimistic forecasts, they can still be shocked into action.
‘They’re astounded to realize the connection between our habits and the destruction of the world,” says Alexander. “Here, kids are learning about native birds, fish and amphibians and how they are dying out thanks to explosive housing growth.
“They can’t believe that plastic comes from oil,” she says. “Some tell me, ‘I’m not buying a ‘Lunchable’ anymore, because I know how many resources they expend - paper from trees, plastics from oil, water to make both, and aluminium - for a single serving.”
A YOUTH-LED MOVEMENT
Much of the new movement is youth-led. “Instead of being generated by parents to keep kids busy, it is driven by passionate young people who are really concerned about the environment,” says Diana Smith of the YMCA’s Earth Service Corps, which has involved 20,000 young people in a variety of community leadership efforts in 30 states since its inception 10 years ago.
Seattle’s YMCA teenagers staged a mock debate in which they role-played different interests at the Kyoto climate change talks - some acting as oil company lobbyists, others as representatives from developing countries. Out of the event, says YMCA’s Fran Lo, came a commitment from clubs to “encourage carpooling, and walking or biking to school.”
The last 10 years, too, has seen the rise of even younger children involved in volunteer and activist efforts, much of it environmental. The Big Help, a program of the Nickelodeon TV channel, boasts that since 1994, when the program began, more than 28.5 million children have pledged more than 300 million child-hours to volunteer efforts - from helping the homeless to cleaning up parks.
INFECTIOUS ENERGY
“Kids have an incredible amount of energy that goes untapped,” says Marva Smalls of The Big Help, “Their energy is infectious. You can’t show up at one of their events without being drawn into picking up a shovel yourself.”
Lauria Moen, a school resource conservation specialist, agrees. “Waste is a habit--we like to waste resources. But kids don’t have them yet,” says Moen, who has seen the 19 schools in the Kent School District in Kent, Wash., save some $38,000 a year in energy, water and solid waste. Much of that savings has come from student-run recycling and conservation “patrols” that enlist kids for spot inspections of teachers and staff.
Adults? “I find them very, very difficult to motivate,” says Moen. “It’s only been through the spirits of the kids that I’ve ever seen any action.”
Francesca Lyman is an environmental and travel journalist and editor of the American Museum of Natural History book, “Inside the Dzanga-Sangha Rain Forest” (Workman, 1998)."