In mid-June, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the establishment of seven new national-level cultural ecology protection zones. These zones aim to preserve a range of cultural heritages, ...

Tristan da Cunha, an island with 245 permanent residents, is creating a marine protection zone to safeguard endangered rockhopper penguins, yellow-nosed albatross and other wildlife in an area of the ...

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Conservation zones are in the wrong place to protect vulnerable coral reefs from the effects of global warming, an international team of scientists warned today. Now the team say that urgent action is ...

Rosatom's director general Alexey Likhachev and International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Mariano Grossi held talks, which the Russian company said showed "significant closeness of ...

PLACES such as Scholes, Cleckheaton and Heckmondwike find themselves within a bird flu surveillance zone. A 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone has been declared after 'highly pathogenic ...