Biodiversity global news 2007 - 2009



2009


 * Government of Afghanistan releases Its first-ever list of protected species, June 3

2008


 * New international measures to protect more than 70 of the world’s migratory birds of prey and owls agreed, October 22


 * New Global Environment Facility project to better protect bees, bats and birds - key pollinators for food security and biodiversity, August 8


 * Russia moves Sochi Olympic sites. The organizers of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi have decided to relocate several facilities away from a protected wilderness area, July 4.


 * UN joins environmental calls for Russia to move Olympic site, Greenpeace warns Olympic Village threatens rare and endangered species, June 2


 * World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows. 90% of environmental damage around the world explained by rising temperatures driven by human activity, May 15


 * USA announces decision to protect polar bears under Endangered Species Act, May 14 place


 * Nearly three quarters of the Japanese people do not support their country's whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, February 19 2008

2007
 * Conserving biodiversity is key to tackling climate change say scientists, Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, June 12

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