| China has recently published the country's first serial
report on environmental topics |
| The three books, written by Zhe Fu, a dedicated environmental
writer, are in-depth reports on the environmental situation in the
three major river basins of the Yangtze River, Yellow River and Huaihe
River. |
| Xinhua |
| Epidemic threat as bird flu spreads to migrating geese |
| China has closed nature reserves to the public and
warned that people should avoid contact with poultry after the discovery
of the deadly bird-flu virus in migrating geese in a remote western
province. |
| Times
Online |
| Thousand endangered amphibians released in E. China
province |
| One thousand artificially bred giant salamanders, a
rare amphibian, were freed into streams in Jing'an County, east China's
Jiangxi Province on Monday, to increase its population in the wild.
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| Xinhua |
| The spectre of extinction: Indian vulture population
crashes |
| The cause of the 99 per cent drop in the Indian vulture
population has been identified. But can this essential element of
the ecosystem ever recover? |
| Independent
|
| Brazil losing fight to save the Amazon |
| In the heart of what is known in Brazil's Amazon as
the "arc of deforestation" it is clear that the fight to save the
jungle is being lost. |
| Environmental
News Network |
| WWF donates US$ 3.3 million to protect the Amazon |
| A US$3.3 million donation to be invested in the protection
of the Amazon's biodiversity was announced by WWF International Director
General Dr Claude Martin. |
| WWF
Newsroom |
| Abu Dhabi sets falcons free into wild |
| The skies over Chitral, Pakistan, near the Afghani
border, were this year's choice for the eleventh annual release of
falcons back into the wild. |
| Middle
East Online |
| Tanzania: elephants cause havoc in the north |
| Marauding elephants continue to cause havoc in northern
Tanzania, where they have destroyed 80 hectares of crops and disrupted
learning for children who now have to be escorted to school, an official
told IRIN on Monday. |
| Reuters
|
| Jordan, Israel, Palestinians agree on action to save
shrinking Dead Sea |
| Jordan, Israel and the Palestinians agreed Sunday to
go ahead with a three-year feasibility study to save the Dead Sea,
whose constant evaporation will lead to its complete disappearance
in five decades, experts say. |
| Environmental
News Network |
