Whale sanctuary proposal defeated
19333
A proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary is defeated at the International Whaling Commission's meeting.
425527
Environmentalists again clashed with Japanese whalers Tuesday in the Antarctic Ocean, with Greenpeace activists failing in a risky attempt to prevent the fleet's factory ship from refueling.
715258
Whaling was banned two decades ago, but a vote this week marked a big step toward bringing it back
255816
Japan is dropping its plan to kill humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, the countryâs top government spokesman said.
285179
Japan's efforts to have restrictions lifted on the trade in whalemeat are rebuffed at an international meeting.
685363
Japan has "temporarily halted" its much-criticized plan for a humpback whale hunt in the seas near Antarctica, said the chief Japanese government spokesman on Friday.
582542
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Oct 3 (IPS) - A novel solution has been proposed to block the  building of a controversial dam that sits over a fissure and that  environmentalists say will harm plant and animal life.
758953
Most of the western Great Lakes population of gray wolves was removed from the Endangered Species Act on Monday.  (c) 2007 Bismarck Tribune. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
552332
BRATISLAVA, Dec 1 (IPS) - Environmentalists have attacked the government over  plans for redevelopment of the country's largest national  park after one of the biggest ecological catastrophes in the area  in the last hundred years.
372421
Supporters of fox hunting in England and Wales lost the first round of an ambitious legal battle against a ban on the sport due to take effect next month.
75546
By Daniel Thigpen, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 17--STOCKTON -- County planners on Thursday rejected a proposal to turn nearly 400 acres of dairy farmland south of Manteca into space for new homes after opponents argued such a project would threaten existing dairies.
531811
Effort to fertilize oceans to limit warming, and make money, is canceled.
613706
WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
699520
By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 25--Two proposals to build homes on less than a full acre on properties touching the county's urban development boundary were unanimously rejected by the Redland Community Council on Wednesday.
579854
ASHLAND, Ore.  - A Bush administration decision to  eliminate the possibility of removing dams to save endangered  U.S. Pacific Northwest salmon species is a huge blow to  protection efforts, an environmental group said on Wednesday.
521781
Japan has turned down an offer from  Greenpeace to tow a whaling ship that caught fire off the  Antarctic coast, recalling that activists of the conservation  group had boarded the same vessel almost a decade ago.
473725
Despite passing a symbolic resolution to overturn a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling last year, it is unlikely that there will be enough support to formally end it when the International Whaling Commission meets here Monday.