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Volume 9 / N u m b e r 5 / M a y 1978
equipment is $650. The Caribbean expedition from 25 June to 15 July, will be centred on Port Royal on Roatan Island. Fee also including air fare $1800. Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island in southern California is the site of the Pacific expedition; fee $600. From 18-27 July. And the South Pacific expedition from 31 July to 30 August; fee $3,400 including air fare, is to the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, north of Papua, New Guinea. For further information contact Lucy Mack, USC, Los Angeles.
New WWF-U.S. President Russell E. Train, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been elected President of World Wildlife Fund-U.S. Mr. Train served as vice-president of WWF-U.S. from 1959 to 1969 and is currently a trustee of W W F International. In electing him, the Board of Directors has restructured the position of President to the status of a full-time chief executive officer. At the public announcement of his presidency, Mr. Train said, "the protection of species and their habitats is an urgent and world-wide task. "We require nothing less than a comprehensive and coordinated global strategy for the conservation of nature. " I t is essential that those of us who care about wildlife be sensitive to the fact that over much of the globe, particularly in less developed areas, there can be no long-term future for wildlife unless human problems such as malnutrition and over-crowding are effectively addressed. The fate of wildlife is inextricably bound up with the future of human well-being." In 1970, after serving for one year as Under Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Train was appointed the first Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, Subsequently, he became Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a post he held until January 1977.
More Oil Bibliographies I Following hard on the.heels of the second supplement to the Plymouth Bibliography on Marine and Estuarine Oil Pollution (see Mar. Pollut. Bull., 8 (1978) 91) come two more bibliographies of the recent literature relating to oil pollution. These are from the Canadian Environment Protection Service. The first is A Selected Bibliography on the Fate and Effects of Oil Pollution Relevant to the Canadian Marine Environment (EPS-3EC-77-23) and contains 598 titles and a KWIK (Keyword in context) index. The second is A Selected Bibliography on Oil Spill Dispersants (EPS-3-EC-78-2), prepared by K. G. Doe, G. W. Harris and P. G. Wells of the Atlantic end of the Environmental Protection Service. It has 402 titles and author and keyword indices. Both bibliographies are obtainable from the Environmental Protection Service, 5151 George Street, Halifax, N.S., Canada.
Saving Oiled Seabirds There have been a number of booklets purporting to provide instruction on how to rehabilitate oiled birds over the years. The latest, Saving Oiled Seabirds, prepared by the International Bird Rescue Research Center, Berkeley, California, and distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (2101 L St. NW, Washington DC 20037, single copies free, larger numbers up to 100 priced 35 c. each, special discounts on larger numbers) summarizes the best established techniques and describes an additional one, tube-feeding to restore fluid and electrolyte balances. No rescue centre is complete without it. W. R. P. BOURNE
Cromarty- Moray Firth Monitoring A marine monitoring scheme has been devised by the UK Water Research Centre and the Highland River Purification Board on the Cromarty and Moray Firths to aid the detection of any environmental deterioration during construction and the subsequent operation of the planned crude oil refinery and marine terminal at Nigg Point on the Cromarty Firth. The refinery will discharge a continuous flow of cooling water and intermittent discharges of treated effluent on the ebb tide. The area has extensive sand and mud flats and is rich in inter-tidal invertebrates and larger areas of salt marsh. In addition to considerable commercial and private fishing interests the region is of international importance as a winter resort for waders and shore birds.
Round-the-World News United Kingdom Pollution of rivers and canals in England and Wales is gradually being reduced. The latest river authority survey published by the Department of the Environment last month reveals that there has been a slow but steady improvement in the chemical quality of the water and a decrease in the number of effluents discharged into these waterways.
Hong Kong A series of anti-pollution measures have been taken by the Hong Kong government to combat oil spills which, during 1977, totalled almost 40. With a total of 400 tankers bringing about 6 million tons of oil to the islands during that period and a further 4 million tons being moved around local waters as bunker fuel carried on nearly 9000 cargo vessels entering port the incidence of spills is reasonably low. Most of the spills involving an average of about 50 tons were described by the Government's oil pollution coordinator, Mr. J. H. Gould, as 'bunkering spills'. 117
equipment is $650. The Caribbean expedition from 25 June to 15 July, will be centred on Port Royal on Roatan Island. Fee also including air fare $1800. Toyon Bay on Santa Catalina Island in southern California is the site of the Pacific expedition; fee $600. From 18-27 July. And the South Pacific expedition from 31 July to 30 August; fee $3,400 including air fare, is to the Western Islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, north of Papua, New Guinea. For further information contact Lucy Mack, USC, Los Angeles.
New WWF-U.S. President Russell E. Train, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has been elected President of World Wildlife Fund-U.S. Mr. Train served as vice-president of WWF-U.S. from 1959 to 1969 and is currently a trustee of W W F International. In electing him, the Board of Directors has restructured the position of President to the status of a full-time chief executive officer. At the public announcement of his presidency, Mr. Train said, "the protection of species and their habitats is an urgent and world-wide task. "We require nothing less than a comprehensive and coordinated global strategy for the conservation of nature. " I t is essential that those of us who care about wildlife be sensitive to the fact that over much of the globe, particularly in less developed areas, there can be no long-term future for wildlife unless human problems such as malnutrition and over-crowding are effectively addressed. The fate of wildlife is inextricably bound up with the future of human well-being." In 1970, after serving for one year as Under Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Train was appointed the first Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, Subsequently, he became Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, a post he held until January 1977.
More Oil Bibliographies I Following hard on the.heels of the second supplement to the Plymouth Bibliography on Marine and Estuarine Oil Pollution (see Mar. Pollut. Bull., 8 (1978) 91) come two more bibliographies of the recent literature relating to oil pollution. These are from the Canadian Environment Protection Service. The first is A Selected Bibliography on the Fate and Effects of Oil Pollution Relevant to the Canadian Marine Environment (EPS-3EC-77-23) and contains 598 titles and a KWIK (Keyword in context) index. The second is A Selected Bibliography on Oil Spill Dispersants (EPS-3-EC-78-2), prepared by K. G. Doe, G. W. Harris and P. G. Wells of the Atlantic end of the Environmental Protection Service. It has 402 titles and author and keyword indices. Both bibliographies are obtainable from the Environmental Protection Service, 5151 George Street, Halifax, N.S., Canada.
Saving Oiled Seabirds There have been a number of booklets purporting to provide instruction on how to rehabilitate oiled birds over the years. The latest, Saving Oiled Seabirds, prepared by the International Bird Rescue Research Center, Berkeley, California, and distributed by the American Petroleum Institute (2101 L St. NW, Washington DC 20037, single copies free, larger numbers up to 100 priced 35 c. each, special discounts on larger numbers) summarizes the best established techniques and describes an additional one, tube-feeding to restore fluid and electrolyte balances. No rescue centre is complete without it. W. R. P. BOURNE
Cromarty- Moray Firth Monitoring A marine monitoring scheme has been devised by the UK Water Research Centre and the Highland River Purification Board on the Cromarty and Moray Firths to aid the detection of any environmental deterioration during construction and the subsequent operation of the planned crude oil refinery and marine terminal at Nigg Point on the Cromarty Firth. The refinery will discharge a continuous flow of cooling water and intermittent discharges of treated effluent on the ebb tide. The area has extensive sand and mud flats and is rich in inter-tidal invertebrates and larger areas of salt marsh. In addition to considerable commercial and private fishing interests the region is of international importance as a winter resort for waders and shore birds.
Round-the-World News United Kingdom Pollution of rivers and canals in England and Wales is gradually being reduced. The latest river authority survey published by the Department of the Environment last month reveals that there has been a slow but steady improvement in the chemical quality of the water and a decrease in the number of effluents discharged into these waterways.
Hong Kong A series of anti-pollution measures have been taken by the Hong Kong government to combat oil spills which, during 1977, totalled almost 40. With a total of 400 tankers bringing about 6 million tons of oil to the islands during that period and a further 4 million tons being moved around local waters as bunker fuel carried on nearly 9000 cargo vessels entering port the incidence of spills is reasonably low. Most of the spills involving an average of about 50 tons were described by the Government's oil pollution coordinator, Mr. J. H. Gould, as 'bunkering spills'. 117