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Environmental and protection
* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.
Environmental protection also includes the re-integration of quarries into the countryside after they have been closed down by returning them to nature or re-cultivating them.
Environmental protection is also a priority, several programmes were implemented: " National Forestation and Ornamentation ", " Lonely Tree ", " Green Surveillance ", " Fire Plan ", " Ecuador Forest " and " Arenillas Military Reserve ".
Category: Environmental protection
The main environmental protection agency of the Kyrgyzstan government is the State Committee on Environmental Protection, still known by its Soviet-era acronym, Goskompriroda.
The new government created the Ministry of Natural Resources Use and Environmental Protection in July 1992, with departments responsible for environmental protection, protection of flora and fauna, forestry, hydrometeorology, and administrative planning.
* Environmental protection: Many pieces of land have been donated to the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation and the South Florida Water Management District as conservation easements, and the District collects data and ensures that large portions remain in their natural wetland state.
* Environmental protection
* Environmental protection
Due to this poor feeding, Environmental protection is very important as the lake would suffer long term damage if polluted as the second of the rivers, Rigiaa, feeds only a marginal amount into the lake at its southern end.
* Environmental protection ( Article 21 ) This article imposes a duty on government to ensure the habitability of the land — including the general infrastructure and especially the vital sea-defences — and the protection and improvement of the environment.
* Environmental protection
The Military Programs Environmental Program manages design and execution of a full range of cleanup and protection activities:
* Environmental protection
Category: Environmental protection agencies
Connected to the Conewango Creek watershed, it was created in 1982 for the purpose of flood protection and is stocked annually with fish by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and is open for fishing.
Within the borders are two state parks: Wonder Lake in the east and Fahnestock in the west, as well as a portion of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and thousands of acres of spectacular open spaces under the permanent protection of the New York Department of Environmental Protection.
* Environmental protection
The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, completes the framework for the protection and of water resources.
The Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act ( 2000 ) " supports and promotes the protection, enhancement, and wise use of the environment.
Category: Environmental protection agencies

Environmental and .
Environmental intelligence is just as important.
Environmental Science and Policy.
Environmental ethics is concerned with questions such as the duties of humans towards landscapes or species.
Environmental issues helped form the basis of the nationalist independence movement when environmental demonstrations subsequently merged with those for other political causes in the late 1980s.
In 1994 three national environmental laws were in effect: the Law on Environmental Protection, the Basic Law on the Environment, and the Law on Mineral Resources.
Environmental conditions in Armenia have been worsened as a result of war with Azerbaijan over Armenia's claim of historic rights to Azerbaijan's province.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved the registration of 355 different antibacterial copper alloys that kill E. coli O157: H7, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ), Staphylococcus, Enterobacter aerogenes, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in less than 2 hours of contact.
* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.
Environmental noise arises from the surroundings of the analytical instrument.
In some areas TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered " safe " by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In some areas, TCDD concentrations in soil and water were hundreds of times greater than the levels considered safe by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency.
* U. S. Environmental Protection Agency – Dioxin Web site
* Agent Orange Office of Public Health and Environmental Hazards, U. S. Department of Veteran Affairs
The United States Department of Agriculture and its myriad agencies such as the Agricultural Marketing Service are the primary sources of regulatory activity, although other administrative bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency play a significant regulatory role as well.
* In Belarus International Sakharov Environmental University was named after him.
Environmental Science and Technology, 40: 2, 2006, pp 418-425.
In the U. S., the Environmental Protection Agency regulates the registration of antimicrobial products.

protection and .
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
In a small grove against the river they halted, turning deep into the protection of the trees.
Curt approached the place cautiously, and watched it several minutes from the protection of a grove of trees.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
Social invention did not have to await social theory any more than use of the warmth of a fire had to await Lavoisier or the buoyant protection of a boat the formulations of Archimedes.
in certain instances the denial to some of our citizens of equal protection of the law.
As it was the custom of that alert colony to take over the property of persons asking for protection, this was an act roughly equivalent to throwing open the door to a pack of wolves and saying `` Come and get it ''.
Following the glorious lead of the heroes of Pawtuxet, they also submitted themselves to the protection of Massachusetts.
I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.
It includes a raise in the county minimum wage, creation of several new jobs at the executive level, financing of beefed-up industrial development efforts, and increased expenditures for essential services such as health and welfare, fire protection, sanitation and road maintenance.
And until this protection is at least as concrete as, say, the row of hotels that bars us from our own sands at Miami Beach, those who represent us all should agree to nothing.
He said, `` Let's work for peace instead of protection from aggression ''.
As to protection, the speaker disapproved of shelters, pointing out that fallout shelters would not save everyone.
It seems rather peculiar that residents of apartments are denied the right of providing themselves with the protection and companionship of dogs.
On October 19, after the Soviets had detonated at least 20 nuclear devices, Ambassador Stevenson warned the UN General Assembly that this country, in `` self protection '', might have to resume above-ground tests.
We don't need this type of protection any more.
One reason the portwatchers let Sposato take them over was to get the protection of his musclemen.
Solid blocks are recommended because hollow blocks would have to be filled with concrete to give effective protection.
If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.
The shelter would provide almost absolute fallout protection.
This shelter, as shown on page 24, would provide almost absolute protection from fallout radiation.
The shelter shown would provide almost absolute fallout protection.
Another type of shelter which gives excellent fallout protection can be built as an added room to the basement of a home under construction.
The basement or belowground shelters also will serve for tornado or hurricane protection.

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