The ministry functions as the central state administrative authority and highest inspection authority in environmental affairs.
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The act is an important and controversial parliamentary decision regulating access to New Zealand’s natural resources.
US President Bill Clinton announces the “Greening of the White House” to begin on Earth Day 1993.
An act nationalizing private forests in order to protect them ended up backfiring.
The Antarctic Treaty is the first international conservation treaty after the end of the Second World War.
Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople call for a “conservation of Creation.”
The ascent of the highest mountain in Western Europe is regarded as the foundation of modern Alpinism.
Wilhelm Gottfried Moser formulates the basic principle of “sustainable forest management.”
European settlers introduce European species of flora and fauna into Australia and New Zealand.
Scientists Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland argue that CFCs could damage the ozone layer.