Global 200 - Global 200 Global 200 is an ecological land classification proposed by the WWF. WWF has identified ecoregions - collectively known as The Global 200 (but are actually 233 regions), which are crucial to the conservation of global biodiversity. The goal of this new classification is to ensure that the full range of ecosystems will be represented in regional conservation and development strategies. WWF reflected that though conservationists focused on the preservation of rainforest because they harbored an estimated 50 percent of species on Earth, a more comprehensive strategy for conserving global biodiversity could try to consider as well the other 50 percent of species and the ecosystems that support them. Several habitats, such as Mediterranean-climate shrublands, are on average more threatenend than tropical rainforest, and require.
List of the Global 200 - List of the Global 200 List of the Global 200 ecoregions See also conservation status Terrestrial ecoregions Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests Afrotropic 1 Guinean Moist Forests 2 Congolian Coastal Forests 3 Cameroon Highlands Forests 4 Northeastern Congo Basin Moist Forests 5 Central Congo Basin Moist Forests 6 Western Congo Basin Moist Forests 7 Albertine Rift Montane Forests 8 East African Coastal Forests 9 Eastern Arc Montane Forests 10 Madagascar Forests and Shrublands 11 Seychelles and Mascarenes Moist Forests Australasia 12 Sulawesi Moist Forests 13 Moluccas Moist Forests 14 Southern New Guinea Lowland Forests 15 New Guinea Montane Forests 16 Solomons-Vanuatu-Bismarck Moist Forests 17 Queensland Tropical Forests 18 New Caledonia Moist Forests 19 Lord Howe-Norfolk Islands Forests Indomalaya 20 Southwestern Ghats Moist Forests 21 Sri Lanka.
January 2003 - parliament of The Netherlands. The PvdA wins, but CDA remains the largest party in parliament. LPF loses. CDA and VVD do not get a majority. A large arctic air mass over much of central North America brings severe cold and wind chill over much of southern Canada and northern United States for several days. Germany and France celebrate the 40th anniversary of their friendship in Versailles (Elysée Contract). January 21, 2003 An earthquake hits Mexico that is 7.6 on the Richter scale. The center of the earthquake was on located on the Pacific coast, in the State of Colima. Even in Mexico City, the capital 400 kilometres away from the center of the earthquake, the earthquake was felt. Convicted cracker Kevin Mitnick is allowed to use a computer again. January 20,.
Iraq crisis of 2003 - to Germany and Japan as examples of countries which developed into stable and peaceful democracies during American occupation following World War 2. Bush's opponents do not agree that these are valid comparisons because both of these examples took many years of occupation, and large amounts of money invested into their economies; this has not happened in Bush's previous invasion, Afghanistan, which has not shown signs of developing a stable democracy, nor signs of economic progress. The American government position on war on Iraq remains determined, and appears not to have been swayed by worldwide government positions on war on Iraq. There is significant United Nations opposition to the U.S. war plans. The U.S. is employing all diplomatic and public relations measures to try to bring world opinion behind it. See The.
Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 2001-2003 - council, and account for its known chemical weapons material stockpiles. November 13, 2002 Iraq accepts U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 and informs the UN that it will abide by the resolution. Weapons inspectors arrive in Baghdad again after a four-year absence. December 7, 2002 Iraq filed a 12,000-page weapons declaration with the UN in order to meet requirements of resolution 1441. UN weapons inspectors, the UN security council and the U.S. felt that this declaration failed to account for all of Iraq's chemical and biological agents. Turkey moves approximately 15,000 soldiers to the border with Iraq December 19, 2002 UNMOVIC Chairman Hans Blix tells UNSC members that the Iraqi weapons declaration filed on December 7 "is essentially a reorganized version" of information Iraq provided UNSCOM in 1997, and that it "is.
George W. Bush's 2000 Election Platform - of this concept claim that the Bush policy is aimed more at supporting, and therefore establishing, religious institutions than supporting the disadvantaged. Income Group (thousands of dollars) Average Savings (dollars) 0-10 5 10-20 63 20-30 204 30-40 351 40-50 500 50-75 820 75-100 1,776 100-200 2,710 200-500 5,527 500-1,000 17,605 1,000+ 88,873 Economy: His slogan was, "Whoever pays taxes gets a tax break". The rich pay the most taxes, and the current system weighs the income tax against the upper income brackets; Bush's proposed tax plan reduces the taxes on the top income brackets by a greater percentage than middle-income brackets, which is similar to the top income brackets having to pay a greater percentage of taxes than do the middle-income brackets. Bush also supported raising the Earned Income Tax Credit,.
February 2003 - disarmament through further inspections. Both major parties of Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, vow to fight Turkish troops if they enter Kurdistan to capture Mosul or interfere in Kurdish self-rule. Between them the two parties can mobilize up to 80,000 guerillas - most likely no match for the modern Turkish army, but a severe blow to the unity of U.S. allies on the Northern front expected in the U.S. plan to invade Iraq. Roh Moo-hyun becomes the new president of South Korea. North Korea fires test missiles into the Sea of Japan. Toshihiko Fukui, former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor, is named as a new chief of Bank of Japan. Four former executives of Qwest Communications International are criminally charged with fradulently booking $33,000,000 in revenue during 2001. The.
December 2002 - people." Four Americans (the director, a doctor, the administrator and the pharmacist) at the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen, were killed by Abed Abdul-Razzak Kamal. Kamal was captured and claims he was linked to the extremist Islamic Reform Party. Another member of his alleged cell, Ali al-Jarallah, was arrested for shooting a Yemeni left-wing politician on Sunday. The United Nations Security Council voted 13-0, with two abstentions, to revise the list of goods Iraq is allowed to purchase under the "food-for-oil" program. The list includes flight simulators, communications equipment, high-speed motorboats, and rocket cases, which the United States noted are dual-use technologies. The Security Council also agreed to ask the UN for standards to evaluate the quantities of medicine and antibiotics Iraq is allowed to import under this program. A tanker,.
December 2003 - only the second film after Titanic to earn over US$1 billion at the box office. [1] Republic of Congo: A gunbattle breaks out in Brazzaville.[1] Health: The UK government says that a case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease may have occurred through blood transfusion. [1] Former Governor of Illinois George Ryan is indicted on corruption charges for receiving payoffs, gifts and vacations in return for government contracts and leases while he served as the Governor and Secretary of State of Illinois. [1] Governor of Connecticut John G. Rowland announces that he will not resign, despite allegations of corruption involving the receipt of free modifications to a vacation cottage, and the indictments of several of his top aides. [1] Islam in France: the hidjab issue: President of France Jacques Chirac announces that he.
2001 in literature - - James Ellroy The Constant Gardener - John le Carré The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age - Steven Levy Death in Holy Orders - P.D. James Dolce Agonia - Nancy Huston Empire Falls - Richard Russo Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris The Fourth Hand - John Irving Fury - Salman Rushdie Giving Something Back - Robert N. Kucey Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming - Gale E. Christianson The Idea of Perfection - Kate Grenville Picador The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett Leap Of Faith - Danielle Steel Life of Pi - Yann Martel Man Ray's Montparnasse - Herbert R. Lottman Marie Antoinette:.
Afghanistan timeline February 15-28, 2003 - with Pakistan. Mortars, AK-41 anti-tank land mines, BM-12 Chinese-made missiles and munition rounds were found when troops searched the compound in Bander district, 70 kilometers (45 miles) south of Jalalabad. Five were Taliban suspects were arrested at a hotel in the town of Spin Boldak near the Pakistan border. Afghan police detained a British man who allegedly killed two Afghans with a pistol during a shootout at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. The shootout was aparently sparked by a "conflict of interest concerning a commercial dealing." The British man, identified only as a bodyguard of an American man and his Afghan wife, was wounded. February 24, 2003 Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries Juma Mohammad Mohammadi and Pakistan foreign ministry official Mohammad Farhad Ahmed were among eight people on board a.
Afghanistan timeline January 1-16, 2002 - belonging to the national carrier, Ariana Afghan Airlines. January 15, 2002 The U.S. military stopped bombing suspected terrorist hideouts in the Zhawar area in Afghanistan. The series of bombings flattened 60 buildings and sealed about 50 caves. 12 civilians were killed and cattle herds were decimated. The U.N. Security Council lifted an international flight ban on Ariana Afghan Airlines and unfroze the airline's assets. Japan's Ministry of Finance removed the Central Bank of Afghanistan from a list of financial institutions whose assets were frozen in the wake of September 11 attacks. A trip organized by Global Exchange brought four U.S relatives of victims of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack to Afghanistan to meet Afghans who lost family in the U.S. bombing campaign. The United States charged John Walker Lindh with.
Afghanistan timeline January 17-31, 2002 - command of the 17-nation mission by the end of April. In an e-mail sent to news organizations, kidnappers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl extended the deadline by one day for the United States to meet their demands, which included the release of Pakistani detainees captured in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan. U.S President George W. Bush met in the White House with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. They discussed the global economy and the war on terrorism. Bush thanked Schröder for sending German peacekeeping troops to Afghanistan and for offering to help develop a new Afghan police force. Following their Oval Office meeting, Schröder said it was crucial for Afghanistan to develop its own police and military to maintain security once international peacekeepers leave. In Pakistan, fire broke out.
Afghanistan timeline January 2003 - Afghanistan. UNESCO and the Afghan government launched a major project to boost literacy throughout Afghanistan. The project was financed by a US$500,000 contribution from the Japanese government through a funds-in-trust. The main focus of the project involved development of literacy teachers production of teaching materials. To date, only 51.9 percent of men over the age of 15 and a mere 21.9 percent of women in the same age group could read and write. Near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, U.S special forces detained two men with bomb-making materials. In Kandahar, Afghanistan, a bomb was thrown at the offices of the French aid agency Action Against Hunger. No one was injured, but the agency decided to suspend its activities in the city. January 28, 2003 U.S war planes, including B-1 bombers, F-16s and AC-130 gunships,.
August 2003 - 19 men in connection with the blast, many of them foreigners and all with admitted links to al-Qaeda. [1] The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declassifies carbon dioxide as a pollutant, a move seen as leading to the elimination of restrictions on industrial emissions of the controversial gas. Climate scientists have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices (though notably fewer within the US) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Americann and Iraqi officials are discussing the possibility of forming a large Iraqi militia or paramilitary force to help improve security in the country. [1] Terrorist: Terrorism group Jemaah Islamiyah has schemes, revealed in a 40-page manifesto (the Pupji book or General Guide to the Struggle of.
September 11, 2001 attacks timeline for September - remains have been recovered from the Pentagon and transported to Dover Air Force Base, Del. for identification. [1] Lower Manhattan east of Broadway is opened to pedestrians. Tens of thousands of Afghani refugees stream toward the closed borders with Iran and Pakistan (there are already two million refugees in each country already from twenty years of Afghani-Soviet War then Afghan Civil War). Food and other aid can no longer get in. PM, A 20-year-old Saudi Arabian student is stabbed three times in Boston by assailants yelling anti-Arab abuse as he leaves a nightclub. Monday, September 17 The U.S. had demanded that Pakistan close its borders to Afghan refugees. Pakistan complies. Major League Baseball games recommence. The Department of Defense (DoD) releases a casualty update: 9 DoD employees and 2 passengers accounted.
September 2002 - The federal government has moved thousands of troops into the state of Gujarat after 32 people were killed in an attack on a Hindu temple. According to the government, the move is aimed at preventing further communal violence in the aftermath of the attack. September 24, 2002 Technology: Motorola has announced a single-chip satellite navigation receiver, opening the possibility of the addition of location-specific functions to low cost ubiquitous computing devices. The chip combines RF processing, analog signal processing, digital signal processing and a CPU on a single chip. Côte d'Ivoire: Côte d'Ivoire rebel soldiers, still attempting to overthrow the government, have invested a compound containing over 100 American citizens and other foreigners. 200 United States Marines have entered the country to rescue the foreigners. September 23, 2002 Belgium is the.
September 2003 - EU Agriculture Commissioner, Franz Fischler urged EU ministers to lift the ban on GMO food, as the EU risks facing legal challenges by the US and other countries at the World Trade Organization. [1] Russia stalls on signing the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty to reduce global warming. Kyoto Protocol supporters in the EU react with consternation to Russia's decision. [1] EU foreign affairs ministers have approved a controversial pension reform for EU civil servants, which is set to increase their pension age and make the new entrants work more years to receive the maximum level of pension. [1] European Union: Poland and Spain are about to launch their battle to keep the current system of voting in the European Council, introduced by the Nice Treaty. [1] Euro-parliamentarians urge EU governments.
November 2003 - [1] The anti-Good Friday Agreement Democratic Unionist Party with 30 seats becomes the biggest party in Northern Ireland in the Northern Ireland Assembly Election, 2003, replacing the Ulster Unionist Party (27 seats), while Sinn Féin at 24 seats replaces the SDLP (18 seats) as the major Irish nationalist party. John Manley, Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, announces he will not take a position in the new cabinet of leadership rival Paul Martin that will take office on December 12, and will not run again in his riding of Ottawa South in the forthcoming 2004 Canadian election. Martin praises Manley's past accomplishments and takes the unusual step of publically offering Manley the posting of Ambassador to the U.S.[1] In Italy, Alessandra Mussolini, grand-daughter of Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren, resigns.
Kristian Birkeland - to collect magnetic field data. The results of the Norwegian Polar Expedition conducted from 1899 to 1900 contained the first determination of the global pattern of electric currents in the polar region from ground magnetic field measurements. The discovery of X-rays inspired Birkeland to develop vacuum chambers to study the influence of cathode rays on magnets. An example of one of his experiments is depicted on the left front of the bank note. It shows a magnetized terrella, simulating the Earth, suspended in an evacuated box. Birkeland noticed that an electron beam directed toward the terrella was guided toward the magnetic poles and produced rings of light around the poles and concluded that the aurora could be produced in a similar way. He developed a theory in which energetic electrons were.
