AL-BIA WAL-TANMIA Environmental Magazine
From: Stuart Schoenfeld
AL-BIA WAL-TANMIA
The Leading Pan-Arab Environment Magazine
Volume 11, No.103, October 2006
CONTENTS
5 Towards Arab clean development technology (editorial by Najib Saab)
9 Did Israel use depleted uranium?
10 Post-war environment (observations in Lebanon by Japanese photographer Naomi
Toyoda)
22 Crocodile hunter hunted by nature (dramatic death of Steve Irwin) (cover
story)
28 An Arab scheme for conservation (by Odeh Al-Jayoussi, IUCN regional director)
30 Sea turtles and migratory birds saved from oil pollution in Palm Islands
32 Dispute over oil-spill cleanup in Lebanon
39 Birds in the United Arab Emirates
44 Crash! (Insects killed on your windshield)
48 Answering to the Arab public's environmental demands
52 Victims of radiation in Iraq on Arabia TV
56 Renewable energies in Germany
Letters to the editor 6
Environment in a month 14
UNEP news 26
Environment
market 60
Green library 62
Calendar 64
listing of forthcoming events:
Arab Environment Day
14 October 2006
WATMED3
1 - 3 November 2006
Tripoli - Lebanon
E-mail: info@watmed.com
www.watmed.com
12th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Change Convention
6 - 17 November 2006
Nairobi - Kenya
http://unfccc.int
Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment Meeting
15-16 November 2006
Cairo - Egypt
Green Industry
20 - 22 November 2006
Manama - Bahrain
http://www.green-industry.org