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.
Books by Victor Olgyay (Design with Climate) and Ralph Knowles (Form and Stability ) pioneer a “green building” movement among architects and designers.
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.
British economist Thomas Robert Malthus warns of the dangers of overpopulation.
One of the first guilds in Europe is founded by silver miners in Germany’s Harz Mountains.
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.
Bushfires devastate large areas of Victoria and South Australia and kill seventy-one people.