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Earth Matters
Program 93a
Juliet Fox
3CR Community Radio
03 9419 8377
ComRadSat Program 4/2/2000
INTRO : "Hello and welcome to =85"
OUTRO : "... again next week."
DURATION : 25'15" (frogs til around 26'30")
World Wetlands Day 2000
On February 2nd 1971 the Convention on Wetlands was signed in the Iranian
city of Ramsar, located on the edge of the Caspian Sea. The official title
of the treaty is The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance
especially as Waterfowl Habitat - but nowadays it's more commonly known as
the Ramsar Convention.=20
Sarojini Krishnapillai is a marine campaigner with the Victorian national
parks association, where on World Wetlands Day they turned their focus to
some local concerns. Today on Earth Matters Saro joins us and begins by
describing just what sort of a wetland exists on Westernport Bay.
IN: "Well the whole of Westernport Bay =85"
OUT: "=85 needs protecting."
DUR: 8'15"
Campaign against Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean
On January 25th Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise cruised into Fremantle,
Western Australia, after taking non-violent action against Japanese whaling
in the Southern Ocean. Greenpeace says that Japan's Antarctic whaling
program is in violation of articles 65 and 120 of the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Seas, a convention which sets out how states
should follow the International Whaling Commission in protecting whales.=20
Japan continues to ignore both the commission and the convention and
intends to kill 440 Minke whales this year. Today we hear from John Bowler,
a Greenpeace campaigner on board the Arctic Sunrise, speaking from the ship
docked in Fremantle.
IN: "Yes well we've just come back from =85"
OUT: "=85 of the global community."
DUR: 10'10"
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