Vol. 2 No. 11 November 1972

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Michael Allaby

Robin Hanbury-Tenison

John Hemming

Robert Allen

Peter Delap

John Adams

R. T. Briggs

Lawrence D. Hills

Graham Searle

Derrick Beecham

Peter Bunyard

Nicholas Gould

Edward Goldsmith

Editorial Fire raisers

Feature articles

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Tribal societies in the modern world

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Robbed of a future: the Brazilian Indians

Tribal minorities: what can we do?

Wild deer in Britain

Concorde: they said the same about the H-Bomb

S02: acid in the sky

Sanitation for conservation

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Zuckerman!

How to fight a road

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Prosecuting for noise abatement

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Towards a stable Metropolis

Breast-fed babies are healthier ,

Columns Friends of the Earth

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Gulliver in Automobilia The author discovereth the evil consequences of an unsettled state of society 36

Towards a unified science Vital force

Letters

Feedback

Books

Classified advertisements

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Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Managing Editor: Michael Allaby; Associate editors: Peter Bunyard, John Davoll, Jimoh Onto Fadaka, Gerald Foley, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Charles Maclean, John Papworth, Robert Waller. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editorial copy and advertising enquiries should be sent to The Editor, The Ecologist. 73 Kew Green. Richmond Surrey. Telephone 01-948 0690.

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