GFMC: Recent Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics

Media Highlights on Fire, Policies, and Politics

1999 and 2000

       Year  2000

• Russia: Environmental Referendum Bid in Russia Rejected (published by Interfax Russian News, 29 November 2000)

• Russia: Nuclear Plebiscite Is Spiked By CEC (St. Petersburg Times, 1 December 2000)

• Russia: Two And Half Million Russians Back Environmental Protection Referendum (Interfax Russian News, 27 October 2000)

• Russia: Forestry Cooperation with China (British Broadcasting Corporation, 6 October 2000)

• Russia: State Forest Service to Manage Russian Forests as part of Natural Resources Ministry (Interfax Russian News, 4 October 2000)

• Russia: World Bank Approved Loan To Abolished Unit Russian Forest Service Funding (Financial Times, London, 27 September 2000)

• Russia: CEE Bankwatch Network and Pacific Environment and Resources Center (World Bank, 21 September 2000)

• Russia: World Bank to Release $ 60 Million Forest Loan in Russia (Interfax News Agency, 31 August 2000)

• Germany: natur&kosmos Interview mit Johann G. Goldammer zur gegewärtigen Waldbrandsituation (29 August 2000, in German)

• Russia: Environmentalists sue Over Russian President’s Decree (United Press International, 22 August 2000)

• Germany: Pressemitteilung zu Waldbränden in den USA und anderen Regionen der Welt: Bilanz der Halbzeit 2000 (17 August 2000, in German)

• Russia: Prominent Russian Culture Figures Call on Authorities to Restore Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Interfax News Agency, 19 July 2000)

• Russia: Huge Increase in Illegal Logging this Year (BBC, 14 July 2000 )

• Russia: Environmentalists Denounce World Bank Forestry Loan to Russia (Agence France Presse, 12 July 2000)

• Russia: World Bank Freezes $60 Million Loan for Russia’s Forest Projects (Interfax Russian News, 12 July 2000)

• Russia: World Bank Loans Raise Ire of Russian Environmentalists (Press Release of Pacific Environment and Resources Center, 11 July 2000)

• Russia: Environmentalists Urge World Bank to Stop Lending to Russia (Bloomberg, 11 July 2000)

• USA: Park Service to change prescribed burn policy (published by Environmental News Network, 12 June 2000

• USA: Drought sparks fire worries in Florida (published by Planet Ark, 18 May 2000)

• USA: Firefighters hope cold front will dampen N.M. fire (published by Planet Ark, 17 May 2000)

• USA: Grand Canyon fire spreads (published by Environmental News Network, 17 May 2000)

• USA: Suspension of prescribed burns eyed (published by Environmental News Network, 17 May 2000)

• USA: Los Alamos burn plan carried warning (published by Environmental News Network, 17 May 2000)

• USA: Los Alamos Fire Fueled By US Protectionism (published by Gazeta.Ru, 16 May 2000)

• South East Asia: Sumatra fires spark haze warning in Singapore (published by Planet Ark, 16 May 2000)

• Belarus: Belarus says no radiation threat from bog fires (published by Planet Ark, 16 May 2000)

• USA: Cause of huge Los Alamos fire to be probed (published by Planet Ark, 15 May 2000)

• USA: Fresh winds stir raging New Mexico fire  (published by Planet Ark, 15 May 2000)

• USA: Fire Sweeps Through Los Alamos, N.M. (published by The New York Times, 12 May 2000)

• USA: Wildfire out of control in Los Alamos (published by CNN, 11 May 2000)

• USA: Grand Canyon blaze becomes wildfire (published by CNN, 11 May 2000)

• USA: Planned Fires at Whim of Nature (published by The New York Times, 11 May 2000)

• USA: Wildfire keeps Los Alamos nuclear lab closed (published by Planet Ark, 10 May 2000)

• USA: Los Alamos nuclear laboratory closes as forest fire looms (published by Planet Ark, 9 May 2000)

• USA: Minnesota wildfires threaten Boundary Waters (published by Planet Ark, 5 May 2000)

• USA: Drought, Persistent and Severe, Strikes Again (published by The New York Times, 25 April 2000)

• USA: Early fires related to global warming (published by CBS News, 6 April 2000)

• Turkey: Forest fire spreads in west Turkey (published by Planet Ark, 6 April 2000)

• Hunduras: Forest fires blanket Honduras with acrid haze (published by Planet Ark, 31 March 2000)

• Brazil: Brazil prepares to monitor Amazon in dry season (published by Planet Ark, 22 March 2000)

• Ethiopia: Firefighters contain blaze in Ethiopian game park (published by Planet Ark, 16 March 2000)

• South East Asia: Smoke blankets Borneo as Sumatras air clears (published by Planet Ark, 14 March 2000)

• South East Asia: United Nation agency worried about repeat of SE Asian haze (published by Planet Ark, 13 March 2000)

• Ethiopia: Ethiopia deploys 70,000 people to fight forest fire (published by Forests.org , 9 March 2000)

• Ethiopia: International Aid Needed To Fight Forest Fires (published by Forests.org , 7 March 2000)

• Ethiopia: Ethiopian fires out of control (published by BBC News, 7 March 2000)

        Year 1999

• USA: Forest fires destroy Georgia wilderness (published by Planet Ark 17 November 1999)

• Brazil: Environmentalists slam Brazil over fires (published by Planet Ark 6 September 1999)

• Brazil: Fires set by farmers choke central Brazil (published by Planet Ark 3 September 1999)

• South East Asia: Politicians fail to clear the air over pollution problems Inside Asia (published by The Guardian Weekly 26 August 1999)

• South East Asia: Rains clear smog in Sumatra, but it may be back (published by Planet Ark 12 August 1999)

• South East Asia: ASEAN brings forward smog meeting as fires rage (published by Planet Ark 11 August 1999)

• South East Asia: Indonesia’s Habibie calls for action to stop fires  (published by Planet Ark 10 August 1999)

• South East Asia: Experts call for Jakarta to face court over smog (published by Planet Ark 9 August 1999)

• South East Asia: Smog covers Singapore, Malaysia as Sumatra burns (published by Planet Ark 7 August 1999)

• Brazil: Brazil starts campaign against Amazon deforestation (published by Planet Ark 5 August 1999)

• USA: Alaska wildfires sear a million acres (published by Planet Ark 27 July 1999)

• IUCN: Environmental Foresight in The Reduction of Natural Disasters: A thematic session to end the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (published by the World Conservation Union, 12 July 1999)

• South East Asia: Interview – SE Asia seen buying time with smog plan (published by Planet Ark 12 July 1999)

• USA: Forest fire season blazes to life in Western U.S (published by Planet Ark 12 July 1999)

• United Nations: “Natural” Disasters a Misnomer, UN Leader Says (7 July 1999)

• Brazil: A new report from Brazil’s forests being destroyed by fire (published by MSNBC 5 July 1999)

• Global: World Disasters Report 1999: Report predicts decade of super disasters (published by  Environmental News Network 25 June 1999)

• South East Asia: KL and Jakarta pledge to fight haze – No open burning, says KL – They urge govt to act quickly against haze  (published by The Straits Times Interactive 7 May 1999)

• South East Asia: Fears of Another Smoke-Haze Episode in SE Asia in 1999 (published by The Straits Times Interactive 28 April 1999)

• Brazil: Crypting Deforestation and Burning in Brazil’s Amazonia – New Insights (published by Nature 8 April 1999)

• U.S.A. / GFMC: Global Fire Monitoring Center Established in Germany (published by the Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, 1999)

• Iran: Revolutionary Guards Set Fire To Piranshahr’s Forest in Clashes With Local People (published by www.iran-e-azad.org, 11 November 1998)

• Iran: Iran puts out one forest fire, contains second (published by www.farsinet.com, 9 November 1998)

• Indonesia: Forest fires: logging is to blame (published by Hartford, 5 October 1997)

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