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Last winter machete-wielding locals protested a government ban on sea-cucumber fishing by blocking the entrance to the Charles Darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora and the headquarters for the national park that encompasses 97% of the islands' land area. The invaders held workers captive for four days, harassed...
When the sea-cucumber season began in October 1994, things quickly got out of hand. Dozens of fishing boats appeared, drawn by the high price the sluglike creatures fetch in Asia. According to Jack Grove, a Florida-based naturalist and photographer and founder of the nonprofit group Conservation Network International...
There are 17 million acres of national forest lands in Montana. Last year Burns introduced a wilderness-protection bill for his state that called for safeguarding 800,000 acres and easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of...
Too often such courageous behavior is not rewarded. Last week, however, it was--handsomely if somewhat belatedly. The Norwegian Nobel Committee gave its 1995 Peace Prize jointly to Rotblat, 86, and the Pugwash Conferences he still presides over. The conferences--named for the small Nova Scotia fishing village where they...
British nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he helped found jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Rotblat, who resigned from the Manhattan Project before it developed the first atom bomb, started the Pugwash Conference to work toward the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Pugwash takes its...