It has established a Ministry of Environment and has introduced a pollution fee system by which taxes are levied on air and water emissions and solid waste disposal. The resulting revenues are used for unknown purposes.

British Columbia also contains a large network of provincial parks, run by BC Parks of the Ministry of Environment.

In April 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Yemen and Comoros Ministry of Fishery and Environment signed a " Memo of Understanding " ( MOU ) concerning agricultural cooperation.

In October 1993, the Estonian Ministry of Environment issued a preliminary report summing up part of the degradation it had surveyed thus far.

The Ministry of Environment assigned a monetary cost of more than 10 billion EEK to the damage to the country's topsoil and water supply.

Environment-current issues: In the 2006 environment annual report, the Ministry of Environment reported that current major issues are global warming and preservation of the ozone layer, conservation of the atmospheric environment, water and soil, waste management and recycling, measures for chemical substances, conservation of the natural environment and the participation in the international cooperation.

Science Policy in Malaysia is regulated by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Environment.

* Ministry of Environment Republic of Korea – Nature

As Pakistan is a large importer of both exhaustible and renewable natural resources and a large consumer of fossil fuels, the Ministry of Environment of Government of Pakistan takes responsibility to conserve and protect the environment.

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* Ministry of Agriculture, Nutrition and Environment ( Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio Ambiente )-Miguel Arias Cañete

The Ministry of Environment has recently, however, come up a $ 50, 000 + plan to clean the whole area and transform the dump into a green space, along with other heaps in the country.

An official in Uzbekistan's Ministry of Environment estimated that about half of the country's population lives in regions where the water is severely polluted.

* Ministry of Population and Environment, a government ministry in Nepal.

* Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of Slovenia

In 1991 Taranto was declared a high environmental risk area by the Ministry of Environment.

In 1971 the Canadian Meteorological Service was established under the Ministry of Environment ( Environment Canada ) in 1971.

Meanwhile Michael Heseltine had introduced a comprehensive system of corporate and business planning ( known as MINIS ) first in the Department of the Environment and then in the Ministry of Defence.

However, this advice was criticized ; an article in The Hindu reported that " an internal analysis of the statement of the Ministry of Environment and Forests says it ' appears that this could be a business strategy to phase out single gene events is, the first generation Bollgard I product and promote double genes second generation Bollgard II which would fetch higher price.

Its functions for maintaining ancient monuments had previously been undertaken by part of the Department of the Environment which was the successor to the Ministry of Works.

Responsibility subsequently transferred to the Ministry of Public Building and Works ( 1962 – 1970 ) then to the Department of the Environment ( UK ) ( 1970 – 1997 ) and now the DCMS.

Originally it was administered by Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, then the Rural Development Service for the United Kingdom Governments Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and currently Natural England following successive re-organisation of the departments.

Newspapers have reported that the Ministry of Mercantile Marine is ready to support the agreement between Greece, South Korea, Dubai Ports World and China for the construction of a large international container port and free trade zone in southern Crete near Tympaki ; the plan is to expropriate 850 ha of land.

Later, an All India Radio ( AIR ) broadcast of March 27, 1948, reported a press conference by VP Menon, Secretary in the Ministry of States.

The Malian Equipment and Transport Ministry reported that the first half of 2008 saw 254 deaths and 1, 924 injuries on Mali's roads, following on 579 deaths in 2007 and 642 in 2006.

IRIN reported that the Ministry of Defence had admitted that two Namibian soldiers died fighting suspected UNITA rebels in southern Angola in July 2001.

According to Chékarou Bagoudou, Chief of the Division of Road Safety and Security of the Nigerien Ministry of Transport, there were 4338 officially reported road accidents in 2008, with 7443 victims, of which 616 were killed.

In 1935 the Nazi government had passed a decree that required all inventions of possible military significance to be reported to the Ministry of War, so in May 1937 Schrader sent a sample of tabun to the chemical warfare ( CW ) section of the Army Weapons Office in Berlin-Spandau.

On August 28, 2009, a Swedish public news outlet reported that Romanov family jewelry, found in 2008 in the archives of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was returned.

As of 8 April 2010, the Ministry of Health South Africa had reported 87 human cases infected with Rift Valley fever ( RVF ), including two deaths in Free State, Eastern Cape and Northern Cape provinces.

" In August 2005, a series of items reported factually on coal mining disaster in China ; soon after the channel's leaders received a warning from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that its reports were harming China's international image.

In 2009, the Egyptian Culture Ministry reported archaeologists had discovered the site of a sacred lake in a temple to the goddess Mut at the San al-Hagar archaeological site in ancient Tanis.

A joint committee of the Imperial War Museum, the National Maritime Museum and the Ministry of Defence was established, and reported in June 1968 that preservation was practical.

In 1989, after two hundred years as one of the few agencies that reported directly to the Riksdag, the Debt office was reconstituted and is now reporting to the Ministry of Finance and the Cabinet.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry reported that two terrorists involved in the Mike's Place suicide bombing forged " links with foreign left wing activists and members of the International Solidarity Movement ( ISM ).

At 8: 30 PM, September 13, the Mongolian Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese ambassador to make a formal complaint about the unauthorized entrance of a plane into Mongolian airspace, and reported to the ambassador that the plane had crashed, killing all on board.

In Japan the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry reported that " only about 50, 000 " were killed annually in the mid-20th century, although this number was thought to include several other species of wetland birds.

In 2011, it was reported in The Guardian that the Ministry of Defence planned to put the contract to operate BFBS to competitive tenders, with a new contractor operating the service from 2013.

* Libyan Oil Ministry Head Dr. Shokri Ghanem-Interview, Richard Quest, CNN London, reported by CBS BNet, 16 July 2010

The Ministry of Education reported a 99 percent attendance rate for primary school and an 80 percent rate for both primary and middle schools.

Although not identified until later, China ’ s first case of a new, highly contagious disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome ( SARS ), occurred in Guangdong in November 2002, and within three months the Ministry of Health reported 300 SARS cases and five deaths in the province.

South Sudan's Ministry of Health reported over 400 cases and 16 fatalities.

In September 2005, the Ministry of Education reported that only 12 students showed up with distinctive religious signs in the first week of classes, compared to 639 in the preceding year.

In 1957, A V Ellison, an official in the Ministry of Lands & Local Government reported to the Federal government of Northern Rhodesia that triangulation surveys had been made by the Anglo-Belgian Boundary Commission from 1911 – 1913, when eventually a de facto boundary for the northern frontier was agreed upon.