Word: nelsons
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...were hoping for an even larger area, taken together, the marine monuments will mean that President Bush - perhaps the least environmental President in U.S. history - will have protected more of the ocean than anyone else in the world. "He deserves a huge amount of credit for this," says Jay Nelson, director of the Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy Program, which has long lobbied for the protected areas. (See pictures of the world water crisis...
...been establishing national parks for more than 130 years (beginning with Yellowstone National Park in 1872), we're only just now moving to protect the ocean and the multitude of life that depends on it. "We're more than a hundred years behind terrestrial conservation," says Nelson. And there's still a lot of ground to make up. A study by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimated that less than 0.1% of the world's ocean territory is protected in some fashion - even as the ocean comes under increasing threat from overfishing, acidification and global warming...
...Sunday after dying at 91, was a lifelong contrarian. Born into white privilege in a society that was becoming progressively more racist, she served as a lawmaker in South Africa's parliament from 1953 to 1989, fighting government repression of the country's black majority and the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and his fellow anti-apartheid fighters. For 13 years, from 1961 to 1974, it was a battle she fought alone as the sole anti-apartheid member of South Africa's parliament...
...Guineans who poured into the streets to cheer the soldiers know too well, they never had democratic rule - challenges to Conté's civilian government were squashed by ruthless force. Guinea expert Peter Pham, director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University, told the Associated Press this week that Western leaders should not blindly trust in a constitution which the now-dead president Conté drafted largely to keep himself in power for decades. It was "not the result of any democratic process," he noted. After such a sorry history, even a coup...
...think he’s just become more familiar. I mean, before he got elected in 2006 [to Parliament], he was only in Canada to get a cup of coffee,” said Nelson Wiseman, an associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto...