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Название: Материалы на английском III Главные Пункты: * Руководство для НПО по получению поддержки в вопросах охраны здоровья, устойчивого развития и т.д.. E-mail: alexandra.mueller@dsw-hannover.de WWW: http://www.eurongos.org/guide.htm * Каспийский осетр - на грани исчезновения. (22.12.2000) Полный Текст Материалы на английском III МАТЕРИАЛЫ НА АНГЛИЙСКОМ ***** Guide to European Population Assistance. This Guide is a valuable tool providing practical information to NGOs worldwide to obtain European governmental funding for population, sexual and reproductive health and sustainable development issues. The recently published second edition has been completely revised based on expertise from European NGOs and edited by the German Foundation for World Population (DSW). The briefing kit in loose-leaf format consists of more than 100 pages about development policy and NGO co-operation of European donor countries and the European Commission, giving practical advice on application procedures, deadlines, contact persons and funding priorities. The annually updated guide is for free for NGOs in the South. It will help participating agencies to access European funding sources and contribute to project sustainability also beyond the EC/UNFPA funding period of the RHI. ORDER FROM: Alexandra Mueller, Project Co-ordinator, DSW Tel: (+49) (511) 943-7373 E-mail: alexandra.mueller@dsw-hannover.de WWW: http://www.eurongos.org/guide.htm *-------------------------------------------------------------------* CivilSoc is a service provided to more than 1,900 subscribers worldwide by Center for Civil Society International in association with Friends & Partners. For more information about civic initiatives in Eurasia, please go to: http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi/ CivilSoc archives: http://www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi/archives.htm There are no restrictions on copying messages. However, if you do so, please credit Center for Civil Society International, or CCSI, as the source. ***** #12 BBC Monitoring Caspian sturgeon on the verge of extinction - Russian TV Source: NTV, Moscow, in Russian 0900 gmt 06 Dec 00 [Presenter] International environmental organizations are again trying to draw the world community's attention to the catastrophic situation caused by sturgeon fishing in Russia. The World Wild Life Fund insists that caviar trade should be banned for the next six months, claiming that this is the only measure capable of stopping drastic drop in the number of marketable fish caused by uncontrolled poaching in the Caspian Sea basin. Russia also plans in December to suggest to the states bordering the Caspian Sea that fishing of sturgeon and similar types of fish should be temporarily suspended. Correspondent Sergey Mikhailov gives the details. [Correspondent] At all times black caviar was a must at aristocracy's dinners. Soon it may become a real treasure which only the world's richest people would be able to afford. Both Russian and Western specialists have noticed a dramatic decline in the number of the Caspian Sea sturgeon. [Natalie Rebeits-Nelson, captioned as the head of Caviar House] The decline in the number of fish is proved by the fact that our trade turnover in the caviar market has decreased by 50 per cent in the last 10 years. [Vladimir Demin, captioned as deputy governor of Astrakhan Region] Every year the catch of sturgeon decreases. We are risking the total disappearance of this precious kind of fish. Thus, life itself is impelling the imposition of a moratorium on sturgeon fishing. [Correspondent] At this month's session of the interstate commission on fishing Russia is going to propose a ban on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian. Apart from Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are also members of the commission. It will be proposed to introduce quotas for the fisheries that artificially produce young white, stellate and regular sturgeon. Even if these measures are taken they will be still only half measures. The main dangers are poachers and local residents for whom sturgeon-fishing is the main source of survival. [Nikolay Runkov, fisherman] Less fish is caught and correspondingly wages are falling. Fishermen used to support their families with the money they got from fish sales. Now there is no fish and no salaries. [Correspondent] Specialists of the Caspian fishing research institute say that every year 12-15 tonnes of fish are caught illegally in the northern part of the Caspian. This is ten times more than the official catch. The fishing inspection authorities cannot combat the poachers effectively as the latter have much better equipment [boats]. [Vadim Lazarev, fisheries inspector] Poachers are always equipped best of all. The inspectors have second-rate equipment. This difference in equipment hampers the whole process. [Correspondent] World Wild Life Fund specialists say that during the last 25 years the volume of sturgeon-fishing in the Caspian has decreased by twenty times. [omitted: repetition] [1113] [Video shows a restaurant, sturgeons, caviar being extracted from a sturgeon ] |