Member countries of OPEC have grown flush with wealth from their oil resources. Unfortunately, this wealth has often been accompanied by violence and suffering. Nigeria, the only member of the organization in sub-Saharan Africa, has perhaps suffered the most. Since the first commercial production of oil in the Niger Delta in the 1950s propelled Nigeria to the top of Africa's oil-producing countries, the country has been wracked by regional conflicts over exploitation of its natural resources. In an effort to decrease violence and kidnappings, the Nigerian government offered an ongoing amnesty to militants in august 2009; the amnesty has kept fragile tranquility in place. In order to ensure lasting peace, the government must look beyond short-term monetary payoffs and focus on strengthen...
Scientists also know little about what the world was like for prey species before the eagles were extirpated. The Oregon coast now supports over a million nesting seabirds, including common murres, storm petrels, western gulls, cormorants, and tufted puffins. While none are federally endangered, Washington regards common murres and tufted puffins as species of concern (along with bald eagles); the puffins are also considered "sensitive" in Oregon. After the bald eagle's decline, these seabirds nested for generations without being harassed, says [Frank Isaacs]: "I feel sorry for the seabirds." These days, on the northern part of the coast, bald eagle prédation has caused the collapse of entire murre colonies, once 300,000 birds strong. "Some of our rocks that were significant colony site...
..., such as over-exploitation of natural resources, pollution, or habitat loss. Gary Roemer, an assoc...
It was, then, because of big-power banditry, i.e., the pillage, pollution and depletion of the marine environment, attacks on the people, and the devastating effect of this on the health, lives and livelihood of the Somali people, that the people took up arms in resistance and defense to tax the violators, interrupt their activities and prevent their ability to arrogantly seize and sail safely at the expense of the Somali people. And it is from this beginning resistance that lumpen elements got involved and began to engage in hostage-taking for ransom that we now call piracy. Some of the monies received in ransom have gone to relieve the suffering of the people, to create jobs, businesses and revive towns. Moreover, the hostages are treated humanely and have always been returned after t...
... one of their most available and vital resources-their sea life and food supply. Without a central ...
... benefits of exploiting finite capital resources accrue to individual market participants, each of ... of the commons, however, is that overexploitation of shared resources occurs in advance of its impac...
... to ignore calls to source their resources more responsibly. . Indonesia's tropical rainfores...
... the over-exploitation of fisheries resources,. (5) safeguarding important natural resources, su...
..., such as over-exploitation of resources, climate change, pollution and piracy. We have cop...
... Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which are intended to conserve the renewable natu...
DAILY MAIL CAPITOL REPORTER A potential study on where West Virginia's water flows and what it's being used for has sparked controversy over the alleged industrial exploitation of the state's natural resources and the future of clear-running streams in the state.
...--played out in struggles to control resources in northern lands and seas since the first Europea...
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