In another House-engineered setback for the environment, the compromise budget approved by Congress and the White House prohibits the Interior Department from spending any money to carry out a policy protecting unspoiled federal lands.
We will now get our day in court and I know that NRDC, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) and their partners will continue to do all they can to protect Utah's unspoiled landscapes.
Mr. Coffey and others are also encouraged by Gov. John Rowland's plan to purchase and protect 15,300 acres of unspoiled land now owned by the Kelda Group, the British-based water utility company that owns the Bridgeport Hydraulic Company.
At a time, in the early 1980s, when Peru is wracked by leftist terrorism and hampered by weak central government, the Foundation for the Protection of the Environment (FPCN), founded by a group of Peru's leading biologists, becomes a vehicle through which international environmental organizations act to protect the diverse and unspoiled world of Peruvian Amazonia.
Following two years of negotiations, the Catholic Diocese of Trenton has agreed to sell the tract to a trust that is trying to protect 90 square miles of unspoiled land in Central New Jersey.
"The Kermadecs is a world-class, unspoiled marine environment and New Zealand is proud to protect it for future generations," Key said.
"While the scenic and aesthetic effects of this project might carry less weight if located elsewhere, they are highly significant when occurring in an area that is nationally prized for its unspoiled scenic beauty," one that federal, state and local governments strove for decades to protect, the Commerce Department ruling said.
A massive new marine reserve was created around Antarctica on Friday that will protect some 600,000 square miles of ocean in one of the world's last vestiges of unspoiled wilderness.
Tourists visiting developing countries, he argues, prefer to see unspoiled landscapes and authentic ways of life, so it is in everyone's interest to protect the legacy of the past.
And now that they are threatening to take the lead, what can science do to protect its own needs in the region — as well as the planet's last remaining chunk of relatively unspoiled land, in the Antarctic interior?
