81.   Cypriot environmental groups have been campaigning for years to establish a protected area in the Akamas Bay area, a largely undeveloped forest region.

82.   Cypriot environmental groups have been campaigning for years to establish a protected area in the Akamas Bay area, a largely undeveloped forest region in northwest Cyprus.

83.   Digging the earth and building structures on the protected area are illegal.

84.   Egypt on Wednesday proclaimed the Red Sea resort of Taba, formerly held by Israel, to be an environmentally protected area, Al-Ahram newspaper reported.

85.   Early results showed a dramatic increase in the number of tigers in the protected areas.

86.   Eventually the network of protected marine areas would resemble the national system of parks and reserves that safeguard unusual and threatened regions on land, the White House said.

87.   Fighting also has reduced drastically the human and material resources needed for the conservation of protected areas, WWF said.

88.   He said as with forest reserves and water catchment areas, the local authority would reject all proposals to develop gazetted protected areas.

89.   He said the governments should ensure that protected natural areas are established in tandem with any commercial projects in the Arctic.

90.   He promised to clean up the bad bank debts and encourage competition in protected areas to revive the economy without resorting to pork-barrel public works spending.