Word: bans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half in the past decade, to an estimated 625,000. In October the 102 nations that subscribe to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species are expected to declare the African elephant endangered, which would make the ivory trade illegal in those countries. Not waiting for a worldwide ban, the U.S. and the E.C. decided last month to stop ivory imports immediately. Japan followed suit with a partial ban that would reduce its ivory imports to a trickle...
...much Japan has changed its policies concerning threatened animals. As recently as 1987, the country had partly exempted itself from the CITES treaty in order to maintain imports of 14 endangered species, more than any other nation. Since then, Japan has reduced this number to eleven by agreeing to ban trade in the green sea turtle, musk deer and desert monitor lizard...
...deny. Australia and New Zealand, concerned that Japanese and other Asian fishermen were catching too many albacore tuna in the South Pacific, recently outlawed drift nets within 200 miles of their shores. The two countries have offered the services of their navies to smaller Pacific nations that support the ban...
...apparently a homegrown plot led by impatient brigadier generals, not the senior command. The political direction of the new regime is uncertain, but the draconian nature of its decrees indicates that the new leadership means business. Its first orders: the dissolution of parliament and political parties, a ban on political opposition, the disbanding of labor unions and the cancellation of newspaper licenses...
Such statistics have persuaded many people that some territories should be placed off limits to oil-field development. Last week the House Appropriations Committee voted to enact a yearlong ban on drilling off vast areas of the coasts of California and Florida, a 50-mile stretch of the mid-Atlantic and part of New England. Congress has never before urged so sweeping a ban on offshore exploration. The committee also voted for a year's moratorium on oil and gas exploration in Alaska's Bristol Bay, an exceedingly rich fishing area...