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Global Concerns Episodes

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    The Trade of Endangered Species

    The work of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)

  2. Usinsk Oil Spill Update

    How people around Usinsk are being affected by a huge oil spill in the Russian Arctic

  3. Russian Arctic Oil Spill

    What impact will 300,000 tonnes of oil have on wildlife?

  4. Preventing Oil Spills

    An air traffic control type system for oil tankers could prevent future oil spills

  5. East Asia Rainforest Fires

    What can be done to stop forest fires in Indonesia that have been burning for a month?

  6. Oil Slick Pollution

    Testing a new radar system on the space shuttle Endeavour that finds oil slicks

  7. African Elephant Populations

    Concerns about allowing trade in elephant parts with Steve Trent of EIA

  8. Sexual Exploitation of Children

    The reasons for child prostitution, and the risks and violence children face

  9. The Importance of Biodiversity

    Why some species are more vulnerable to environmental factors than others

  10. Climate Change and Asia

    How will climate change, tourism and eco-theft effect Asia?

  11. Birth Control

    Discussion on education, information, services and contraception

  12. Panda Breeding in Captivity

    Simon Tong on the breeding habits of pandas such as Ming Ming - who is on loan to ZSL

  13. Exploitation of the Pacific Islands

    A lack of economic development, logging and overfishing in the Pacific Islands

  14. The Environment in Russia

    Alexey Yablokov on radioactive pollution, environmental law and protection

  15. Could Conservationists be Causing Extinction?

    The link between the extinction of African wild dogs with the intervention of scientists

  16. How Red Wine is Helping Assess Levels of Pollution

    How studying Chateauneuf-du-Pape has helped monitor lead pollution from car exhausts

  17. East African Conservation

    How the tsetse fly has helped conservation in Tanzania at national parks such as Mkomazi

  18. International Wildlife Taskforce

    A force to prevent the illegal trade and trafficking of the wild animals of Africa

  19. Coral Reef Decay

    Reef decay affects the balance of marine life on which Pacific islanders depend

  20. The Untouched Rainforest of Papua New Guinea

    It's worth $100 billion and logging means that the forest could be lost in a generation

  21. Protecting Whales

    An agreement to protect whales from commercial hunting, but are all countries happy?

  22. Environmental Impact of Washing Detergents

    What's in conventional washing powders that is bad for the environment?

  23. Flora Mesoamericana

    The catalogue, written in Spanish, of all plants in southern Mexico and Central America

  24. Madagascan Fish Eagle

    Richard Lewis talks about the declining Madagascan fish eagle population and its habitat

  25. Antarctica Whale Sanctuary

    Discussion on the establishment of a whale sanctuary in the southern ocean

  26. Gorillas in Rwanda at the Beginning of Civil War

    Pascale Sicotte on fleeing Rwanda and the threats to gorillas during civil conflict

  27. Conserving Fish Stocks

    How the UN Fisheries Conference missed the opportunity to prevent overfishing

  28. Alligators in Louisiana USA

    After careful conservation and management, alligator populations have increased

  29. Protecting the Philippines

    A scheme buy shares in the island of Danjugan to prevent it being developed for tourism

  30. Children and the Environment

    How children feel about the environment and the action they want to take to protect it

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