Whale sanctuary proposal defeated
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A proposal for a South Atlantic whale sanctuary is defeated at the International Whaling Commission's meeting.
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The International Whaling Commission passed a resolution Thursday that upholds a 21-year moratorium on commercial whaling.
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WASHINGTON Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said Friday that he has scrapped a proposal critics said would seriously weaken the law protecting endangered species.
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By Howard Fischer, CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES  PHOENIX - Home builders have won a crucial victory in their effort to defeat an initiative to set aside up to 690,000 acres of state trust land as off- limits to development.
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A fishing town has banned the sport of conger cuddling after an animal activist complained.
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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.
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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.
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Japan's proposal to resume commercial hunting of minke whales is rejected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
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Environmentalists are objecting to a plan by Florida wildlife officials to downgrade the protective status of manatees from endangered to threatened.
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Plans to hunt up to 50 humpback whales put on hold amid pressure from Australia
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The Anglican Church of Canada narrowly votes against a proposal to allow same-sex blessing rites.
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Japan failed in its bid Thursday to lift a moratorium on commercial whaling at the end of a stormy annual meeting of the 75-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC) and warned it might pull out of the organization.
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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.
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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.
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An Australian judge Tuesday banned the company that conducts Japan's whale hunt from killing the animals in a large part of its regular hunting grounds off Antarctica.
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Japan rejects New Zealand's plea to allow Greenpeace to tow a stricken whaling ship out of Antarctic waters.
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By LAWRENCE LATANE III  Girl Scouts and their leaders opposed to the sale of a beloved waterfront camp last night applauded a county Board of Supervisors proposal to limit development on the property.