Habitat Protection
1999 Developments

12/14/99 In light of overfishing, CCAMLR 2000 survey focuses on updating krill's biomass in South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula fishing waters
12/09/99 African and the Middle Eastern governments, companies, and NGOs meet in Cairo to discuss the economic, social, and environmental impacts of large dams
12/05/99 Cooperative effort undertaken to survey krill population in response to increased fishing pressure
12/03/99 U.N. designates eleven new natural sites for World Heritage protection
12/03/99 World Bank and WWF report states that much of the world's forested biodiversity is protected only on paper
11/29/99 Mitsubishi Corp.'s proposed salt factory in Mexico may cause harm to the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site
11/26/99 Third Conference of the Parties to the Convention to Combat Desertification
11/15/99 Third Conference of the Parties (COP-3) to the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD) opens
11/05/99 Illegal logging threatens Indonesia's largest protected forest
06/30/99 Pan-European Forest Certification Scheme assures customers that wood products come from sustainably managed forests
05/11/99 CoP to Ramsar Convention on Wetlands aim to give Convention "teeth" by in integrating conservation and wetlands use within sustainable development context
02/12/99 UNESCO seeks to create Geopark label to favor projects integrating geological site preservation and economic development