An environment group says its application is a ‘watershed’ case for stopping deep sea exploration
Curacao said it would do what was needed to prevent measles spreading from a Scientology cruise ship, after a crew member came down with the disease
Thirteen years ago a strong environmental campaign saved the St Lucia dunes from being mined. The same cannot be said for this time round.
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/ 2 February 2006
One of Africa’s biggest and most endangered wetland areas is battling to find the fine balance between saving its unique ecosystem and saving its impoverished human inhabitants. Swamplands and vegetation in the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park in eastern South Africa are being battered by local communities dependent on the 260 000ha protected area to survive.