Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fourteen years ago, Easton put on its first annual waterfowl festival. Today the town of 8,000 or so entertains roughly 35,000 celebrators during the three-day event. (The people who attend tend to dress like the people of Easton. A first-time visitor this year was struck by...
The killing of the whales might have been expected to provoke a quick response from the U.S. The Packwood-Magnuson amendment to the 1976 Fishery Conservation and Management Act requires Washington to punish those countries that "diminish the effectiveness" of the international convention for the regulation of whaling. It can...
Environmentalists are outraged by the Administration's compromise. "It's an absolute sellout," says Craig Van Note, executive vice president of a Washington-based consortium of animal-welfare groups. Thomas Garrett, the head of the U.S. delegation to the IWC's 1981 meeting, agrees. "What the Administration...
In the future, Japan can expect to meet more protests from save-the-whalers. The activist conservation group Greenpeace, for one, is organizing a boycott of Japan Air Lines by attempting to pressure travel agents in twelve countries served by JAL to ticket passengers on other carriers. But there is...
But Baruch and others said the Conservation Commission did not have the tests and that they had been unable to get anything out of DEQE because of the paperwork and backup there.