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BIODIVERSITY: Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse

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Tuna from the Spanish Purse Seiner.

By Stephen Leahy*
VICTORIA, Seychelles (IPS) - In the Seychelles' only cannery, the din of thousands of empty tuna cans rattling on narrow metal troughs is incredible as they bustle along, soon to be filled with Skipjack tuna that only days ago were swimming freely in the inky blue Indian Ocean.

Q&A: ''There's a Limit to Fish Harvesting''
ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands
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ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won't Go Away
IPS Correspondents
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) - Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.

ENVIRONMENT: Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands
Stephen Leahy
VICTORIA, Seychelles (IPS) - Swamps, marshes and other wetlands are beginning to be recognised as a country's 'green jewels', even in a tropical paradise like Mahé Island here in the Seychelles, with its stunning beaches and dramatic granite outcrops.

HIV/AIDS

Women in the News: The Gender Wire

> Dam Critics Won't Go Away
> Bashir May Face Genocide Charges
> Security Essential to Ensure Peaceful Elections
> No Oil Company Will Know Peace in the Creeks

Economics - Finance

> Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
> Dam Critics Won't Go Away
> Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
> Sierra Leone Sees Opportunity to Rise Up

> Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive
> Bashir May Face Genocide Charges
> Victory for Anti-Abortion Lobby
> Security Essential to Ensure Peaceful Elections

> Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
> Dam Critics Won't Go Away
> Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands
> Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive

Health - HIV/AIDS

> Early Diagnosis of HIV Still Elusive
> Victory for Anti-Abortion Lobby
> Rotavirus Vaccine Making Headway in Africa
> Quietly Extending Options to Women

> Dreams of Free Education Deferred
> Training Teachers to Cope with HIV-positive Students
> Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
> Commonwealth Champions Adaption Fund

> Dam Critics Won't Go Away
> No Oil Company Will Know Peace in the Creeks
> Addressing Energy Crisis Through Alternatives and Efficiency at Household Level
> From Dirty Fuels to Clean Technology

> Companies Push Hard to Halt Tuna Collapse
> Dam Critics Won't Go Away
> Keeping Wetlands from Becoming Wastelands
> Plastic Bags: Convenience Costing the Earth

Religion, Culture, Gender and Rights

Africa - A Globalising Continent

Rip & Read - Radio Service

Children on the Frontline

Bitter Pill - Obstacles to Affordable Medicine

Farming the Future Africa

The Southern Africa Water Wire

Active Citizens

CHANGING LIVES: Making Research Real

Africa: Polls to Polls

From Aid to Trade with Africa: Fact or Fiction?

More Africa News

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SUDAN: Bashir May Face Genocide Charges

KENYA: Victory for Anti-Abortion Lobby

POLITICS-SUDAN: Security Essential to Ensure Peaceful Elections

NIGERIA: No Oil Company Will Know Peace in the Creeks

RIGHTS-UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country

WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Sierra Leone Sees Opportunity to Rise Up

KENYA: Documenting Sexual Violence

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