Word: costa
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...programs, which involve the granting of debt relief to developing nations in exchange for steps to protect rain forests and other resources, have not taken off in a big way. In the past year or so, only $100 million in debt has been forgiven in return for preserves in Costa Rica and elsewhere. The sticking point: Who will bear the cost of the debt relief? So far, private environmental groups have bought small amounts of Third World debt securities from commercial lenders, but the governments of the developed nations will have to put in more money if the debt...
What can one boy or girl do to preserve the world's rain forests? Ask Jiro Nakayama. He's the twelve-year-old leader of a band of schoolchildren in Nagano, Japan, who have already saved 40 acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate...
...program began in Sweden, where some 100,000 schoolchildren, helped by matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in Belize. Among the participants: a class of autistic children in the Bronx who cashed in enough cans to buy an acre of species-rich jungle...
...source declined to elaborate on the specifics of the planning process. Harvard spokesperson Peter Costa and University Marshal Richard M. Hunt refused comment last night...
Kohl also becomes the fourth straight world leader--and the second German in four years--to deliver the Commencement address, following Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto '73, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and West German President Richard von Weizsacker...