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30 March 2001
Turkish Environmentalist Jailed Upholding Supreme Court Ruling (Environment News Service)
The leader of one of Turkey's longest running environmental campaigns (against mining company Eurogold) was jailed for a year and a half this week under the country's tough anti-protest laws written by the Turkish military. Read on
2 April 2001
Islanders free to sue tobacco giants (BBC)
A US court has cleared the way for the Marshall Islands to launch an multi-billion dollar suit against US tobacco companies over health care costs related to smoking. Read on
4 April 2001
WWF Eco-Forestry Project Operating Without Approval (ENS)
The Papua New Guinea Forest Authority has revealed that an eco-forestry project run by the U.S. based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as a model of well managed forestry, is logging mangrove forests without permission. Mangrove forests are excluded from logging under the PNG Code of Logging Practice. Read on
Global Concentration: The media ownership chart (New Internationalist/mediachannel.org)
The six biggest media monsters in graphic detail (large picture, or downloadable as pdf). Read on
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