31.   RAMSEY Island off the Pembrokeshire coast is to become a nature reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

32.   Hopefully, sometime zoos will become unnecessary as a nature reserve but this is an unrealistic aim while the hunting and destruction of habitat continues.

33.   A young Orthodox Jewish couple was killed in a nature reserve near Meggido, and police suspected a nationalist motive, if not terrorism.

34.   A Venezuelan congressman has asked the attorney general to nullify all existing mining concessions for the Sierra Imataca nature reserve to preserve its rain forest.

35.   About one-quarter of the newly ceded area would be designated as nature reserves to prevent Palestinian settlements.

36.   But reform of fire policy in most wild lands outside nature reserves may be as difficult as reforming health care policy, Pyne said.

37.   But the rush threatened to wipe out an animal near the base of the food chain in the marine nature reserve which surrounds the archipelago.

38.   Extensive tracts have also been taken over by Israel for roads linking settlements and bypassing Palestinian towns, for quarries and for nature reserves, the report said.

39.   Farmers are at a loss to get rid of the manure that taints nature reserves and groundwater.

40.   Her tenure coincided with a growing interest in the environment, and Dr. Brundtland established a popular program that created nature reserves.