During the three “great hunger years,” 270,000 people die.
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The United Nations declares basic development goals to be met by 2015.
In light of the dramatic decline in whale populations, whaling nations found the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Approximately 12,000 people die as a result of the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom.
Egon Glesinger publishes his study on the global importance of wood as a raw material.
The German state regulates conservation for the first time 1935.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is founded. Today, it is considered the world’s largest conservation organization.
The first international conference on global biosphere protection by UNESCO takes place in Paris in 1968.
The passage of the first forest regulations in India under British rule leads to the establishment of the Imperial Forest Service.
The Erie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage.