News headlines for “Biodiversity”, page 605
EGYPT: Shark Attacks Bite Tourism
- Inter Press Service
The beaches of Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh are tentatively back to normal after having recently been the site of five separate shark attacks, one of which proved fatal. While the phenomenon's precise cause remains undetermined, local experts fear that the spate of attacks could have dire consequences for Egypt's vital tourism industry - especially in the event of another incident.
Bahrain’s Farms Disappearing Under Concrete Towers
- Inter Press Service
Environmentalists are engaged in a nation-wide campaign to protect what is left of the agricultural belt in Bahrain. Seventy percent of farms have been eliminated due to urbanisation, according to environmentalists who are warning of a serious environmental crisis.
Oil Leak, Haiti, Afghanistan Dominated 2010 U.S. TV News
- Inter Press Service
The disastrous BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, and the continuing war in Afghanistan comprised the major news stories in 2010, according to the latest annual review of network news coverage by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
Mexico, the Leader in Community Forest Management
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to its experience with community forestry projects, Mexico can provide tips on how to manage forests while fomenting the development of local economies in 2011, the International Year of Forests.
EL SALVADOR: Small-Scale Fishers Want a Slice of the Sea
- Inter Press Service
For the third time in 10 years, small-scale fishers in El Salvador are trying to get Congress to modify the country's fishing law, to create a five-mile exclusion zone along the coast where the industrial fleet would be banned from fishing.
ECONOMY: Namibia Embarks on Nuclear Policy
- Inter Press Service
Namibia is set to develop its rich uranium resources and intends to pursue uranium enrichment locally. It also plans to build its own nuclear electricity plant.
BRAZIL: Resilient Plants Could Hold Key to Adapting Agriculture
- Inter Press Service
A vision of 'the Apocalypse, everything burnt, turned black from ashes and smoke,' was what photographer Mila Petrillo saw when she returned in October to what had been her Eden in the Brazilian municipality of Alto Paraiso, 230 km from Brasilia.
NICARAGUA: Lobster Divers in Deep Trouble
- Inter Press Service
Edgard Walters, who belongs to the Association of Disabled and Active Divers of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, has been in a wheelchair since 2003, when he made his last dive for lobster in the waters of the Caribbean.
CHILE: Clouds on the Horizon in Fishing Industry
- Inter Press Service
Unemployment in Chile's fishing industry will rise this year, experts and the association of small-scale fishers warn, due to the reduction in catch quotas adopted in response to overfishing and plunging stocks of key species, particularly jack mackerel.
ECUADOR: Delayed Return of Fishing's 'Golden' Years
- Inter Press Service
'This year there haven't been many 'dorados', but they're beginning to appear now,' Ramón Díaz says hopefully as he disembarks with his fellow fishermen after spending the entire night out on the water.
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