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Credits and Acknowledgements

General

Campaign to end Dolphin Slaughter in Japan - Sources - Jaap's Marine Mammal Pages

Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000

Coastal Dolphin Survey Project - Photos -NOAA Photo Collection

Marc Hoshovsky - Sonoran Desert Project - UC Berkeley Digital Library

US Fish & Wildlife Service - Sonoran Desert Project- Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge

Air

Water

Earth

Plants

Photos U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Brother Alfred Brousseau - Saint Mary's College of California

Gerald and Buff Corsi - California Academy of Sciences

Charles Webber - California Academy of Sciences

Gladys Lucille Smith - California Academy of Sciences

Virginia Moore - California Academy of Sciences

Steven Kaune - California Academy of Sciences

Albert P. Bekker - California Academy of Sciences

Dr. Gerald Carr - University of Hawaii at Manoa

C.H. Lamoureux - University of Hawaii at Manoa

G. K. Linney - University of Hawaii at Manoa

J. K. Obata - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Tim Motley - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Lani Stemmermann - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Linda Cuddihy - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Harold St. John - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Vickie Carraway - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Micheal Clayton - The Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Trees

Animals

Nancy Vandermey - Feline Conservation Center (FCC)

People