Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the background of all this was the quiet, planetary bulk of the J. Paul Getty Trust, endowed with an astronomical $2.8 billion for running five main entities: the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, the Getty Art History Information Program...
The biologist hails the Costa Ricans for their support of the Guanacaste project. Since 1970, Costa Rica has been one of Latin America's most conservation-minded countries. It has set aside nearly 20% of its land for parks and reserves -- more than any other nation in the tropics. Janzen...
Congress has waited for Interior's decision since 1980, when it passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. The legislation set aside more than 104 million acres of federal territory in Alaska for parks, refuges and wilderness areas, including the Arctic Refuge. But the lawmakers left undecided the fate...
"It has taken years of study for Interior to make this recommendation," says Joseph Lastelic, a spokesman for the American Petroleum Institute. "Development should be a high priority for this Administration. There is a lot of oil there." Other proponents of development cite the impressive conservation efforts made by industry...
Although no one was hurt, last week's raid was one of the most dramatic attacks on the whaling industry in years. In one sweep it devastated Icelandic whalers and focused attention on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a militant international environmental group headed by Renegade Paul Watson, a Canadian...