Marine protection plans criticised
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Science & environment: Proposals to protect almost 10,000 sq km of sea around Britain will fail, conservationists say
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By ESPINER, Colin  Important landscapes that border South Island lakes will be protected from development after a U-turn by the Government over high-country tenure review.
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Hong Kong conservationists have criticised the government for failing to protect reef fish in the city's marine parks after a survey showed fish populations had not increased from low levels.
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By IAN STARRETT i.starrett@newsletter.co.uk  PLANNED new water legislation could threaten fish farming, textile and other industries here, a DUP councillor has claimed.
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State plan would lower its status to 'threatened,' which could benefit boaters by reducing dock and speed limits.
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Alaska's Aleutian Island chain, where a broken cargo ship has been leaking fuel oil for five days, needs the type of environmental protections that are given to better-known areas, a marine wildlife activist said on Monday.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c49800)  has announced the addition of Protecting the Marine Environment From  Land-Based Sources of Pollution to their offering.
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The decision to restore a series of provisions meant to protect whales was a rebuke to an effort by the Bush administration to exempt the Navy from those rules and from federal law.
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The WWF environment group attacked "disjointed management" and "inappropriate planning" for what it called the alarming state of decline of the waters around Britain's 12,400 miles of coastline.
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CONSERVATIONIST David Bellamy has urged the National Assembly to reconsider its decision to allow the building of massive wind turbines off Porthcawl.
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By AUDREY McAVOY  HONOLULU - The Navy says it won't comply with sonar training restrictions that aim to protect marine mammals off the California coast, arguing that the commission that imposed the rules does not have the jurisdiction to do so.  The U.S.
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A rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from the trade that is threatening its future, conservationists say.
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JAKARTA: Australia defended a controversial maritime anti-terror plan on Friday after harsh words from neighbouring Indonesia that it breached international law and Jakartaâs sovereignty over its own waters.
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Plans to protect Britain do not heed the risk of rising river levels caused by global warming, finds study.
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Opposition parties in Scotland criticise the prime minister's plans to replace Trident weapons.
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A Royal Commission warns species are at risk unless steps are taken to close up to a third of UK fishing grounds.