"The Cook Islands is small, and when you sign deals with economic giants like China, you have to question the long-term consequences."
Governance
"The public deserves to know if there are any debt obligations, resource access clauses, or strategic commitments involved."
"There is a moral responsibility by each global leader to think from the global perspective instead of from their own national-interest perspective."
On Wednesday, the lower house of the Australian parliament voted to pass legislation to ban social media for children under 16 years, and the Senate passed the bill on Friday.
"The council sees this legal action as an assault on press freedom and an attempt to undermine the accountability that is vital to democracy."
From 1946–1958, the US military dropped an estimated 318 explosive devices into the Pacific. This destroyed the environment and caused countless health issues for pacific islanders.
"Stifling the media is never a good thing and trying to control them is even worse."
China intervened in the annual Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), insisting Pacific leaders remove any mention of Taiwan from their communique on the forum.
By Dave Rollo
As the setting for Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, Sauk County, Wisconsin, holds a special place within the pantheon of environmental literature. Leopold’s writings on ecology and forestry brought an understanding of land repair and remediation to academic and general audiences. It is difficult to imagine the fields of wildlife biology, soil conservation, or restoration ecology without Leopold’s contribution.
Likewise, the moral basis for the environmental movement in later decades owes its origins in part to Leopold’s land ethic.
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by Dave Rollo
Okeechobee County is located in Florida’s Heartland Region, within the 3000-square mile Kissimmee River Basin. The Heartland stretches from Orlando in the north to the intertidal coast of mangrove forests to the south, forming an area commonly referred to as the “River of Grass.” Water flowed hundreds of miles through this enormous network of marshlands, helping to shape an ecosystem of unrivalled subtropical biodiversity.
Today,
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