FIVE months after moving to Britain to become chief scientist with the
Nature Conservancy Council, Peter Bridgewater, an Australian ecologist is
returning home to become director of the country’s National Parks and Wildlife
Service. When the news broke last week, British newspapers linked his resignation
from the NCC with prevailing uncertainty over the future of the wildlife
agency.
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