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Global Concerns Episodes

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    Bear Baiting

    Asiatic black bears are involved in bear baiting in rural areas in Pakistan

  2. Western Australia

    Wheatbelts in Western Australia have put many species at risk of extinction

  3. The Prospect of Conflict Over Water

    An analysis of water usage, the reasons for shortages, and a call for better management

  4. EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions

    Discussion on the targets agreed by European nations to lower greenhouse gas emissions

  5. Forests for Life

    Restoring forests and protecting the ones that remain in countries such as Australia

  6. Tiger 2000

    Monitoring, preventing trade and poaching, and protecting habitats to save the tiger

  7. Asian Conservation Awareness Programme

    Preventing the trade in endangered species for use in traditional Chinese medicine

  8. Protecting Cod

    The population of cod in the North Sea has been declining from the mid 1970s onwards

  9. WWF 1995 Plus Group

    Using wood from well managed sustainable forests to preserve natural forests

  10. The Hairy Eared Dwarf Lemur

    Thought to be extinct, the hairy eared dwarf lemur was rediscovered in a mountain forest

  11. The Millennium Tree Line

    A project that aimed to plant trees along the length of the Greenwich Meridian

  12. Microlith Pre Converter

    How to improve the performance of catalytic converters

  13. A Look Back at 1996

    Coral reefs, sobering thoughts for 1997 and the Millennium Forest For Scotland

  14. How Pollution Affects the Foetus

    How dioxins, pesticides and PCBs upset the balance of hormones in human foetuses

  15. Forest Conservation

    The Sakha Republic in Siberia pledged to protect 70 million hectares of forest

  16. Falcon Conservation

    How the ruling families of the Gulf Emirates are funding the preservation of falcons

  17. Pollution in the Andes

    Pollution and waste from the El Porco mine contaminated rivers when a dam disintegrated

  18. The Environment in Cambodia

    Deforestation, international funding and the legacy of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

  19. The Ozone Layer

    What state is the ozone layer in around the world in 1996?

  20. The Niger Delta Environment

    The slow progress of the Niger Delta's recovery from oil damage

  21. Environmental Damage in Zaire

    What impact does the mass migration of people fleeing conflict have on the environment?

  22. The Demands for Tiger Body Parts

    Is the Indian government doing enough to protect tigers?

  23. Greenhouse Emissions Targets

    Why developed and former Communist nations are not reducing greenhouse emissions

  24. Food Production in Gambia

    Yahya Jammeh's policy to send young people from cities to the countryside to work on farms

  25. How Climate Change Affects Birds

    Birds' habitats, refuelling stops on migration routes and breeding grounds are threatened

  26. Combating City Traffic Pollution

    The device that sucks pollution out of the air described by inventor Melvin Prueitt

  27. El Salvador's Environment

    "The environmental problems are also social problems"

  28. Tropical Ice Melt

    The melting of the glaciers in mountain ranges in equatorial areas such as the Andes

  29. Natural and Man-made Disasters

    Can you prepare for disaster?

  30. The Growth Rings of Trees

    The shape of tree rings indicates a relative warming of the world over the last 100 years

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