The Association of Zimbabwe Traditional Environmental Conservationists (AZTREC) is founded in Zimbabwe’s Masvingo Province.
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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.
The Society for the Preservation of Nature in Israel is founded in 1953; today it is the largest conservation organization in Israel.
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.
Bushfires devastate large areas of Victoria and South Australia and kill seventy-one people.