Known as the Defence of Australia Policy, it focused Australian defence planning on protecting the nation's northern maritime approaches (the 'air-sea gap') against possible attack.
Mr. Obama, in a major national security reversal, scuttled his predecessor's missile-shield plan to focus instead on protecting Israel and Europe against short- and medium-range Iranian missiles.
The plan will place greater priority on protecting arable land, food security, wildlife protection and the "ecological restoration" of areas damaged by construction of roads, rail and other infrastructure.
To address it, conservationists recommend shifting conservation planning from just focusing on protecting animal populations and their present habitat to including areas of high habitat heterogeneity.
Outbreak control plans in the Netherlands focus on protecting the population by adjusting the vaccination schedule during a nationwide outbreak (5 ).
According to court papers, the translator illegally downloaded classified documents that "detail the 82nd Airborne's mission in Iraq in regard to insurgent activity, such as coordinates of insurgent locations upon which the U.S. Army was preparing to fire in January 2004," as well as plans for protecting Sunnis on their pilgrimage to Mecca that same month.
County and town officials said the open-space plans, which place high priority on protecting groundwater, were responses to strong public support for preservation.
House Democrats plan to hold a vote early next year on protecting health coverage for people with preexisting conditions — testing GOP commitments to such protections that many Republicans adopted during difficult reelection campaigns.
Plaid Cymru is sticking with its position that the Welsh government should receive an extra £1.2bn a year to achieve parity with Scotland, while the Lib Dems insist their plan to protect spending on the NHS would provide protection for Wales.
Members of the G8 will refine plans for protecting the climate on 1 November in Montreal.
