As many as ten million people die as a result of the severe famine.
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The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is signed in Montreal, Canada.
The Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC) is founded in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province.
The 1989 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora (CITES) bans the international trade of African elephant ivory.
As a result of this provision, the old-growth conifer forests of the Pacific Northwest are protected as critical habitats for the owl.
The Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus founds the Grameen Bank as a new model for addressing local poverty by providing microloans.
Books by Victor Olgyay (Design with Climate) and Ralph Knowles (Form and Stability ) pioneer a “green building” movement among architects and designers.
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French Minister of Finance under King Louis XIV, oversees “L’ordonnance des eaux et forêts,” ushering in a new system of forest management.
The US President Theodore Roosevelt publicizes safaris with his own hunting trip to East Africa.
The American company Bell Laboratories develops the first operational modern solar cell.