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Shark fishing banned in the BahamasThe Bahamas has banned shark fishing in its waters and prohibited the sale, import and export of shark products.
"They desperately need protection if we're not going to drive them to extinction,"
- Neil McKinney, president of the Bahamas National Trust |
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Shark fishing banned in the BahamasThe Bahamas has banned shark fishing in its waters and prohibited the sale, import and export of shark products. |
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January Jones Stands Up for SharksJanuary Jones is the new spokesperson for Oceana's campaign to save sharks. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Predators Help ReefsThe Bahamas - Saving the big fish that eats the little fish, which eats the seaweed, is now helping to revive once-dying tropical coral reefs. |
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Ministers adopt Declaration on small island developing StatesNassau, Bahamas - Ministers and senior government officials meeting in Nassau, Bahamas, today adopted a Ministerial Declaration reaffirming the validity of the Barbados Programme of Action - a blueprint adopted 10 years ago for the sustainable development of small island developing States (SIDS). |
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