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Thursday, July 13, 2006:

Conservation and Environmental News Roundup - 13th July 

Latest News Headlines

Climate change solutions too radical for politics

A group of MP's have called for the fight against climate change to be taken out of politics to allow for more drastic measures to tackle the escalating issue. The All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group is urging Tony Blair to seek a cross-party consensus on global warming to allow radical remedies such as carbon rationing to be tried without being neutered by Britain's adversarial political process.

Read more: Climate change solutions too radical for politics (The Independent)

Afghanistan and US team up for biodiversity conservation

A biodiversity conservation initiative has been launched by the Afghanistan government and the Wildlife Conservation Society to create an official system of protected areas in the country. Afghanistan contains many unique habitats including alpine ecosystems which harbours many endangered species such as Marco Polo sheep and Snow Leopards.

Read more: Afghanistan and US team up for biodiversity conservation (Environmental News Service)

Endangered Right Whale receives protection

Thousands of square miles off the coast of Alaska have been designated a protected area in an effort to save the Right Whale from extinction. The slow moving mammal whose numbers have fallen from 11,000 to under 100 in the region are considered the most endangered whale in the world. Right Whales have historically been prised for their oil and baleen and commercially fishing of the species has resulted in a global population which some believe may not be viable for long term survival even with critical habitat protected.

Read more: Endangered Right Whale receives protection (Environmental News Network)

 
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