Environmentalists hope that two vital wildlife areas will now survive.Environmentalists hope that two vital wildlife areas will now survive. Home to 3,500 species of plants, 650 species of birds, and hundreds of species of mammals, nearly 10,000 acres of environmentally important wetland in South America have been saved from further deforestation (programming) deforestation - A technique invented by Phil Wadler for eliminating intermediate data structures built and passed between composed functions in function languages. by a British charity. In the United States, House Representatives Edward Markey (D-MA) and Jim Ramstad (R-MN) have introduced legislation calling for a permanent ban on oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wildlife refuge, haven or sanctuary for animals; an area of land or of land and water set aside and maintained, usually by government or private organization, for the preservation and protection of one or more species of wildlife. Types of RefugesThe U.S. Wildlife Refuge System in 1997 comprised more than 520 different areas in all the states, covering over 93 million acres (37.7 million hectares). and the declaration of the park's 1,235,500 coastal acres as a protected wilderness. Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist. |
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