Green Options » minister http://greenoptions.com/tag/minister Posts tagged 'minister' Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:05:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Exxon Oil and Gas Project to Face Russian Legal Challenge Over Endangered Whales http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:05:45 +0000 Andrew Williams http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/ Russian environmental groups have today launched a legal challenge against a consortium led by U.S. oil and gas giant Exxon, for threatening critically endangered whales in the far east of the country.

Last year, Russian authorities gave Exxon the green light to build a pipeline across a lagoon on Sakhalin Island that is a crucial feeding ground for the world’s last surviving colony of Western Gray Whales.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2008/10/03/exxon-oil-and-gas-project-to-face-russian-legal-challenge-over-endangered-whales/feed/ Peru to Create Environment Police Force to Protect Amazon Biodiversity http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:13:06 +0000 Andrew Williams http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/10/02/peru-to-create-environment-police-force-to-protect-amazon-biodiversity/ The environment and interior ministries in Peru have announced plans to set up a special task force to safeguard forests and monitor the rivers in the Amazon basin. The special force will be made up of around 3,000 officers to be known as the Environment Police.

The force will oversee 373,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest and patrol rivers to combat illegal logging and the unauthorised clearing of forest. Peru’s Environment Minister Antonio Brack said that until now the issue, “a problem of organized crime, morality and oversight,” has not been adequately addressed due to a severely understaffed police force running to just 240 men.

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