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[edit] 2008
- New Global Environment Facility project to better protect bees, bats and birds - key pollinators for food security and biodiversity, August 8 [1]
- Russia moves Sochi Olympic sites. The organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi have decided to relocate several facilities away from a protected wilderness area, July 4. [2]
- UN joins environmental calls for Russia to move Olympic site, Greenpeace warns Olympic Village threatens rare and endangered species, June 2 [3]
- World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows. 90% of environmental damage around the world explained by rising temperatures driven by human activity, May 15 [4]
- Nearly three quarters of the Japanese people do not support their country's whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, February 19 2008 [6]
[edit] 2007
- Conserving biodiversity is key to tackling climate change say scientists, Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, June 12
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References
- ↑ United Nations Environment Programme, August 8
- ↑ United Nations Environment Programme, July 4.
- ↑ Greenpeace, June 2
- ↑ www.guardian.co.uk, May 15
- ↑ U.S. Department of the Interior, May 14
- ↑ Greenpeace, February 19
