[PDF] Great Ape Conservation Act Of 2000 Report 106 472 Senate 106th Congress 2nd Session eBook

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2019-01-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309477352

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The U.S. military has a stockpile of approximately 400,000 tons of excess, obsolete, or unserviceable munitions. About 60,000 tons are added to the stockpile each year. Munitions include projectiles, bombs, rockets, landmines, and missiles. Open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of these munitions has been a common disposal practice for decades, although it has decreased significantly since 2011. OB/OD is relatively quick, procedurally straightforward, and inexpensive. However, the downside of OB and OD is that they release contaminants from the operation directly into the environment. Over time, a number of technology alternatives to OB/OD have become available and more are in research and development. Alternative technologies generally involve some type of contained destruction of the energetic materials, including contained burning or contained detonation as well as contained methods that forego combustion or detonation. Alternatives for the Demilitarization of Conventional Munitions reviews the current conventional munitions demilitarization stockpile and analyzes existing and emerging disposal, treatment, and reuse technologies. This report identifies and evaluates any barriers to full-scale deployment of alternatives to OB/OD or non-closed loop incineration/combustion, and provides recommendations to overcome such barriers.

Author : Benjamin Beck
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Apes
ISBN : 2831710103

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From the website: Although the IUCN has previously established working protocols for plant and animal re-introduction, the great apes present unique challenges and concerns owing to their singular cognitive development. This prompted the Primate Specialist Group to reconsider the existing guidelines in terms of the specific needs of great apes. The resulting synthesis, representing the expert opinion of primatologists and re-introduction practitioners, is presented here as part of the series of best-practices documents. Specifically designed for rehabilitators and specialists in re-introduction, these guidelines start from the fundamental assumption that re-introductions should not endanger wild populations of great apes or the ecosystems they inhabit. Equally important is the health and welfare of the individual great apes being re-introduced, as well as the caretaker staff and the residents of the surrounding areas. The re-introduction guidelines also require that the factors which first threatened great apes in the proposed site of release have been addressed and resolved.

Author : Mark Garnett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780719063312

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This book should be of value to students of contemporary British politics.

Author : Sam Vaknin
Publisher :
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2018-09-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781720036562

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Essays about corruption, money laundering, crime, and international finance.