GPA
NEWS UPDATES
|
||
| News - 12th January 2004 | ||
 |
||
|
||
| Farmed
salmon harbour pollutants Farmed salmon contains far more toxic chemicals than wild salmon - high enough to suggest that fish-eaters limit how much they eat, U.S. researchers said last Thursday. But the researchers, as well as environmental groups, said the findings in Science indicate that people should choose their fish carefully. They should also demand that salmon be clearly labeled to indicate whether it is farmed or wild so they can make informed choices about which fish to eat. Read More |
||
|
||
| Chile
Salmon Farmers Say US - Bound Fish Safe Chile's salmon farming industry, the world's second largest, said last week its fish were among the safest to eat and increasingly free of potentially harmful chemicals, accusing a U.S. study into the health risks of eating farmed salmon of confusing consumers. Read More |
||
|
||
| New
fishing hooks can help protect endangered sea turtles New round hooks developed in three years of research appear to reduce unintentional snaring of endangered sea turtles by 65 to 90 per cent, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the United States announced. Read More |
||
|
||
| Scientists
and citizens are stymied by water crisis The world is sharply divided in terms of access to safe hydration. Those who can afford it are guzzling ever-increasing numbers of designer water bottles, while half the world's population lacks basic sanitation facilities. Read More |
||
|
||
| Next-generation
robots take the plunge into the oceans trenches New underwater vehicles are set to make discoveries in the deepest regions of the world's oceans. A novel underwater vehicle, the Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV) under development by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Johns Hopkins University, will be able to reach the deepest parts of the world's oceans and perform a variety of tasks such as photography, biological sampling and topographical mapping. Read More |
||
|
||
| Key
West is cracking down on cruise ships Key West's (in the Florida Keys) city commission has asked cruise ships that dock in this island to pump their wastewater into the local sewage system instead of dumping it offshore. Read More |
||
|
||
| SEA
Regional Training of Trainers Course on Gender Mainstreaming in Integrated
Water Resources Management (IWRM), 8-15 February 2004 in Malaysia As an integral part of the training and capacity building initiatives of the Gender and Water Alliance (GWA) in collaboration with IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre, the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR), this Southeast Asia regional training programme aims to enable organizations or institutions to develop capacities in applying gender mainstreaming tools and methods in their work. This training programme aims to equip the participants with the knowledge and skills to design and manage practical training courses in mainstreaming gender into IWRM - a process that promotes the coordinated development and management of water and land and related resources; the goal of which is to maximize sharing of economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability for vital ecosystems. Read More (or contact IIRR for more details) |
||
|
||
| Events - Upcoming conferences and events related to GPA issues | ||
|
||
|
||
|
| GPA News Updates are a new, informative source of recent news and events related to the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities (GPA). GPA Outreach is a monthly newsletter with a more detailed approach. These GPA postings will useful for all stakeholders (NGOs, Business, Scientists, Students, Government officials etc) who are working on or interested in marine and freshwater policy, management and sustainability. |
|
| For all general GPA enquiries contact GPA If you have any queries regarding these updates or would like to submit some news please contact Stakeholder Forum If you have been forwarded this email and would like to subscribe to these GPA postings, please email join-gpa-outreach@lists.healthdev.org to subscribe. Or if you would prefer not to receive these, email leave-gpa-outreach@lists.healthdev.org to unsubscribe. |
|
| GPA Links |
|
| GPA |
|
| Stakeholder Forum |
|
| Hilltops 2 Oceans Partnership (H20) |
|
| Small Island Developing States (SIDS) |
|
| Global Ministerial Environmental Forum (GMEF) |
|
| GPA Pollutant Nodes |
 |
|
| Oils |
|
| Marine litter |
|
| Physical Alterations and Destruction of Habitat |
|
| Sewage |
|
| Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) |
|
| Radioactive Substances |
|
| Nutrients |
|
| Sediment Mobilization |
| Other
GPA Nodes |
|
|
| Caribbean |
|
| South Pacific |
|
| Arctic |
|
| Australia |
|
| Brazil |
|
| Canada |
|
| Iceland |
|
| Yemen |
|
 |
|
 |