| Editor | Wilbur E. Garrett |
| Artist | Jan Adkins, J. Robert Teringo, Charls C. Uhl, Allen Carroll, William H. Bond, Karen E. Gibbs |
| Assistant Editor | Thomas Y. Canby, John B. Garver, Jr., William Graves, Thomas R. Kennedy, Robert W. Madden, Samuel W. Matthews, O. Louis Mazzatenta, Bart McDowell, Elizabeth A. Moore, Howard E. Paine, John J. Putman, Lesley B. Rogers, W. Allen Royce, Mary G. Smith, Gerard A. Valerio, William S. Ellis, Rowe Findley, Rick Gore, Alice J. Hall, Merle Severy, Peter T. White |
| Photography | Kent J. Kobersteen, James L. Amos, James P. Blair, Joseph H. Bailey, Victor R. Boswell, Jr., Jodi Cobb, Bruce Dale, Emory Kristof, Joseph D. Lavenburg, Bates Littlehales, George F. Mobley, Steve Raymer, James L. Stanfield, Susan A. Smith, Alvin M. Chandler, Claude E. Petrone, Maria Stenzel |
| Layout by/Layout Coordinator | Constance H. Phelps |
| Printed by | William W. Smith, James R. Whitney, Judy L. Garvey, John W. Gergel, Ronald E. Williamson |
| Designed by | Betty Clayman-DeAtley, Timothy J. Conroy, Douglas M. McKenney |
| Periodical Title | National Geographic |
| Associate Editor | Joseph Judge, Thomas R. Smith |
| Photo/Picture Editor | Robert W. Hernandez, William L. Allen, David L. Arnold, William T. Douthitt, Bruce A. McElfresh, Charlene Murphy, Robert S. Patton, Elie S. Rogers, Jon Schneeberger, Susan Welchman |
| Researcher | Michaeline A. Sweeny, Carolyn H. Anderson, Ann B. Henry, Jeanne E. Peters, Danielle M. Beauchamp, Catherine C. Fox, Jan Holderness, Ann A. Jamison, Amy E. Kezerian, Kathy B. Maher, Barbara W. McConnell, Jean B. McConville, Miriam R. Miller, Abigail A. Tipton, Margaret N. Walsh, Cheryl Weissman, Victoria C. Ducheneaux, Jan Hambling, Mary McPeak |
| Copyright Holder | National Geographic Society |
| Other | Gilbert M. Grosvenor, Robert Booth, Judith Brown, John L. Eliot, Boyd Gibbons, David Jeffrey, Larry Kohl, Douglas B. Lee, Peter Miller, Cathy Newman, Cliff Tarpy, Jane Vessels, John L. McIntosh, Don Belt, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., Louise E. Levathes, Boris Weintraub |
| Roving Editor | Charles McCarry |
| Format | Magazine |
| Language | English |
| Printed | 1988-12-00 |
| Copyright | 1988 |
| Volume Number | 174 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Chapters | Will We Mend Our Earth?
Rondônia: Brazil's Imperiled Rainforest
Urueu-Wau-Wau Indians: Last Days of Eden
Quietly Conserving Nature
Caribou—Majestic Wanderers
An Arctic Dilemma
Whales: An Era of Discovery
New Perspective on the World
Population, Plenty, and Poverty |
