Iceberg's chance
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President Bill Clinton signed the US ratification of the environmental protocol to the Antarctica Treaty, thus joining hands with other countries committed to protecting Antarctica. Greenpeace has proposed to establish Antarctica as a World Park and to provide permanent protection from exploitation, exploration and mining. Countries that have signed the Antarctica Treaty, focus on rigorous treatment of sewage, prevent open disposal and removal of wastes from the continent. Russia, Japan and Finland are to be pressurized to ratify the environmental agreement.
Publication Name: Greenpeace (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0899-0190
Year: 1996
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Hearts Afire
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The Brazilian office of environmental activist group Greenpeace campaigns against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and other important issues such as city waste. The organization wants the Brazilian government's Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to add mahogany under its protection. Greenpeace activists challenged unscrupulous concerns in Brazil and risk injury or death.
Publication Name: Greenpeace (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0899-0190
Year: 1997
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Turning the tide
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Greenpeace has made great efforts to reauthorize the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act to enhance commercial fisheries regulation. Greenpeace along with small scale fishers opposed the privatization of fisheries through individual transferable quotas (ITQs), to remove overfishing and bycatch, and to save habitat. Overfishing and bycatch are defined in the Act.
Publication Name: Greenpeace (Washington, D.C.)
Subject: Environmental issues
ISSN: 0899-0190
Year: 1996
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