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Entries for June 2017

June 05, 2017

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation Awards Wildlife Conservation Society with Donation Towards its Marine Protected Area Fund

June 5, 2017 – The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) today announced The Tiffany & Co. Foundation’s $1 million dollar grant towards its Marine Protected Area (MPA) Fund. The grant will be instrumental in the Fund’s mission to establish and strengthen MPAs around the world.

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June 05, 2017

Gabon Announces Vast Marine Protected Area Network at UN Ocean Conference

June 5th, 2017 - President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon announced today at the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York his country’s creation of a massive marine protected areas network consisting of 9 new marine parks and 11 aquatic reserves.

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June 02, 2017

WCS: NPR-A Must Preserve the Current Balance of Wildlife Conservation and Energy Development

Fairbanks, Alaska (June 2, 2017) – WCS released a statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s announcement that it will reopen a 2013 comprehensive management plan on the future of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

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June 02, 2017

MAJOR IVORY TRAFFICKER JAILED IN REPUBLIC OF CONGO

June 2, 2017 – Northern Congo’s notorious elephant poacher and ivory trafficker Daring Dissaka, 39, has been convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment.

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June 01, 2017

WCS: The World Needs Unified Action on Climate Change

NEW YORK (June 1, 2017) – WCS released a statement in response to the announced withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

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