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Headline	Author	Published	Section
That's Babar-ic! South Africa to resume elephant culling despite criticism		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:49 AM on 26 Feb 2008 South Africa announced it will resume killing elephants in May for the first time since a 1995 ban on the practice. Wildlife officials argued that culling is necessary to reduce elephant populations in the country due to their impacts on vegetation and other species; the number of elephants has more than doubled since the ban to about 20,000, which wildlife managers consider unsustainable ...
Topics: animal welfare, news, South Africa, wildlife (all these topics)

Alice in ethanol-land Edwards, Canada, and now South Africa	Ron Steenblik	21 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Former Senator John Edwards (D-N.C.) -- now a presidential hopeful -- has just published his latest energy plan. One important plank of that plan foresees the nation producing (not just consuming, which would allow for imports) 65 billion gallons a year of ethanol by 2025. ('I'll meet your bid for 2030, Barack, and raise it by five billion!') If the 51 cents a gallon volumetric ethanol excise tax credit (VEETC) is extended beyond the end of 2010 -- as most commentat ...
Topics: biofuels, Canada, elections, energy, ethanol, John Edwards, politics, South Africa (all these topics)

Emission Creep Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder	Daphne Wysham	25 Mar 2005	Soapbox
For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creatin ...
Topics: Brazil, business, climate, India, pollution and waste, South Africa (all these topics)

Thar and Thar and Thar She Blows Southern Right Whales Rebounding in South African Waters		21 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Thar and Thar and Thar She Blows Southern Right Whales Rebounding in South African Waters In a rare bit of good news about the marine environment, southern right whales are making an impressive comeback in the waters of South Africa. The mammals were pushed to the brink of extinction by whaling until protections were put in place in 1935; in recent years, annual counts off the South African coast have found steadily increasi ...
Topics: business, oceans, South Africa (all these topics)

99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing		04 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
99 and 44/100 Percent Confusing Five southern African nations are requesting permission to resume ivory trading at an international conference that begins today in Santiago, Chile. They are asking the 160 countries that have signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species to allow them to clear out stockpiles -- mainly from elephants that died naturally -- and to sell 14 tons mor ...
Topics: Africa, business, India, Kenya, South Africa, wildlife (all these topics)

Not So Jolly		13 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Not So Jolly An Italian ship carrying 400,000 gallons of diesel and fuel oil as well as highly toxic chemicals grounded yesterday just off a park in South Africa that is home to rare birds, fish, turtles, and plants. A fire has been raging on the Jolly Rubino for days, and the ship has come to rest seven miles south of the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park's main estuary. Oil is r ...
Topics: national parks, South Africa, toxics, water bodies and marine life, wetlands (all these topics)

The Ends of the Earth Summit?		28 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Ends of the Earth Summit? The aftershocks of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States are reaching halfway around the world, rendering uncertain the planning and financing for the World Summit On Sustainable Development, to be held next year in South Africa. The event, which is organized by the United Nations and is better known as the Earth Summit, will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first en ...
Topics: green living, South Africa, United Nations (all these topics)

Wood Picker		20 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Wood Picker Eric Gellerman is making furniture out of old-growth Douglas fir, 150-year-old white oak, and Indonesian teak -- and getting kudos from environmentalists for doing so. Gellerman is cofounder of The Wooden Duck, a furniture store in Berkeley, Calif., that salvages wood to craft its wares. The environmental benefits range from the obvious -- the company does ...
Topics: California, commercial and industry organizations, green living, logging, South Africa (all these topics)

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