Positive news from Maldives
Maldives creates world’s biggest marine reserveThe Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives announced at the Rio+20 summit it would create the world’s biggest marine reserve to protect its fisheries and biodiversity.
"It will become the single largest marine reserve in the world. This policy will allow only sustainable and eco-friendly fishing. It will exclude deep-sea, purse-seining and other destructive [trawling] techniques"
- President Mohamed Waheed |
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Maldives creates world’s biggest marine reserveThe Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives announced at the Rio+20 summit it would create the world’s biggest marine reserve to protect its fisheries and biodiversity. |
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Maldives leader vows to make country carbon neutralThe Maldives will become the world's first carbon neutral country by fully switching to the use of renewable energy within a decade, President Mohamed Nasheed said in an article to be published Sunday. |
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Secretary Rice Honors International Women of CourageWashington, D.C., USA - In the first ceremony of its kind at the U.S. Department of State, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice March 7 paid tribute to 10 women from around the globe who have shown exceptional courage and leadership. The honorees represented Afghanistan, Argentina, Indonesia, Iraq, Latvia, Maldives, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. |
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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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Maldives opposition leader freed
Senior Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed is freed from house arrest.
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Maldives moves towards multi-party democracyColombo, Sri Lanka - Maldives today took an unprecedented move to establish a multi-party democracy with the country's parliament unanimously agreeing with President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to allow multi-party politics. |
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Australia-Canada Red Cross to Clean Up MaldivesCanberra, Australia - The Red Cross will help the Maldives deal with growing mountains of debris and rubbish that have piled up as a result of the Dec. 26 tsunami that swamped the low-lying island chain. |
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