Biodiversity and Conservation: A Hypertext Book by Peter J. Bryant

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opposition in the Senate.  In October 2001 Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton testified to a Senate Committee on this issue, arguing in favor of oil and gas exploration in the refuge and completely ignoring scientific data from USFWS (her own agency!) on the potential harmful effects of oil drilling on caribou.  She also testified that caribou calving has been concentrated outside the proposed drilling area in 11 of the last 18 years, but in fact calving has been concentrated inside the area.

National Marine Sanctuaries

The goals of the National Marine Sanctuary Program are "to provide enhanced resource protection through conservation and management of the Sanctuaries that complements existing regulatory authorities; to support, promote, and coordinate scientific research on, and monitoring of, the site-specific marine resources of the Sanctuaries; to enhance public awareness, understanding, appreciation, and wise use of the marine environment; and to facilitate, to the extent compatible with the primary objective of resource protection, multiple uses of the National Marine Sanctuaries."  However, commercial fishing is still allowed in these "sanctuaries".

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary | Marine Protected Areas | Govt announces Great Australian Bight Marine Park | Twelve U.S. marine parks get attention | No-Take' Zones Spark Fisheries Debate by Karen F. Schmidt | Sustainable Oceans and Coasts | California Coastal Commission - California Programs for Biodiversity Conservation (Information Center for the Environment - ICE) | OCEAN98

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