STONY BROOK, N.Y., March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) today formally announced the reclassification of beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea as "critically endangered" on its Red List, providing strong evidence that fishing and international trade should be halted and a stock-rebuilding plan should be initiated immediately. Beluga sturgeon populations have been decimated in part due to unrelenting exploitation for black caviar - the sturgeon's unfertilized eggs - considered the finest in the world. For those of us who have been involved in studying the rapid decline of this species over the past several decades, this reclassification of beluga sturgeon is of great significance and relief," said Dr. Ellen Pikitch, Professor and ...
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WASHINGTON, June 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- To celebrate World Ocean Day, major conservation groups will present a new Global Conservation Award and announce marine conservation achievements and initiatives at a news conference and reception at the National Press Club. The event -- An Evening for the Ocean -- will be hosted by Defying Ocean's End, Island Press, Conservation International, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI), and the Blue Frontier Campaign to mark the second anniversary of the Defying Ocean's End campaign.
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WASHINGTON, June 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, the environment and energy minister of Costa Rica, received the first annual Global Ocean Conservation Award this evening from six organizations promoting marine conservation. Rodriguez, 45, was honored on World Ocean Day for his work in the past year advancing the global marine conservation agenda. The six groups presenting the award at the National Press Club were Conservation International, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Ocean Revolution, and the World Wildlife Fund.
Bordered by coastal mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Getty Villa evokes the classical world in its architecture, landscape and gardens, which have been planted with species known to have flourished in the ancient Mediterranean. Boston-based architects Machado and Silvetti Associates, Inc., fused contemporary design ideas with architecture inspired by antiquity to provide support for the Getty Trust's four programs: the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Research Institute. The original villa was conceived in 1968, based on the Villa dei Papiri, a first-century Roman country house. The villa in Malibu became the new location of the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1974; it closed for renovation six months prior to the opening of the Gett...
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... among global powers to dominate the Indian Ocean intensifies, it becomes likely that whichever powe.... (19) Pak Institute for Peace Studies, PIPS Security Report 2007 (PIPS...
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