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Initiative calls for cleanup of Swiss rivers

This content was published on Jul 3, 2006 The Swiss Fisheries Federation says that 90 per cent of rivers are obstructed, channelled or detrimentally influenced by power plants. The federation, supported by WWF Switzerland, Pro Natura and Aqua Viva, handed in an initiative to the federal authorities in Bern on Tuesday calling for the trend to be reversed. The initiative was signed by…

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Hydropower

This content was published on Jun 21, 2006

Nature park opens in eastern Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 3, 2006 Parc Ela, which covers an area of 600 square kilometres, is rich in scenery and cultural assets of national importance. Deiss said that 21 communes had united to create the park, which was a model of supra-regional cooperation. The 6,000 residents of the Albula and Surses valleys had “thought locally and acted globally”, he commented.…

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Hydro power

This content was published on May 11, 2006

Green group warns river life under threat

This content was published on May 5, 2006 The non-governmental group, Pro Natura, warned on Friday that thousands of fish and aquatic animals are dying out through an over-harnessing of rivers. Switzerland’s largest conservation organisation accused hydroelectric power companies of shutting the sluice gates to numerous watercourses in their pursuit of profits. “Switzerland needs to do more for its suffering rivers and streams…

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Raindrops keep falling in greater numbers

This content was published on Apr 26, 2006 It is hoped that climate models based on the researchers’ reconstructions will be able to predict droughts or floods far into the future. “We discovered that with oxygen isotopes in tree rings from Asia we can reconstruct precipitation over the past millennium,” Kerstin Treydte, one of the researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest,…

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Experts sound extinction alarm

This content was published on Apr 20, 2006 The warning came from the Swiss Association for the Protection of Birds, which on Thursday launched a campaign to highlight the need for a concerted ecological strategy. In October 2004 the Swiss Biodiversity Forum – a body comprising researchers from around the country – reported that although Switzerland was home to one of the most…

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Environment policy passes through Copenhagen

This content was published on Apr 3, 2006 The Swiss would like to see the institution focus on noise protection, non-ionising radiation from mobile phones and gene technology. On a map of European industrial pollution, Switzerland has been a blank spot until now. Not because Swiss industry is clean as a whistle, but because the European Union’s databases contain very little information about…

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Avalanche threat cuts off mountain villages

This content was published on Mar 9, 2006 Avalanches have blocked roads and rail lines in other parts of the Swiss Alps, and heavy rain in low-lying areas has flooded cellars. The situation is not expected to improve, with up to 70 centimetres of fresh snow expected to fall within the next 24 hours. Charly Wuilloud, spokesman for canton Valais, said that 20…

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Natural sanctuary welcomes humans

This content was published on Feb 26, 2006 Haller has run the park in eastern Switzerland for ten years and knows the 172-square-kilometre wilderness like the back of his hand. In 1914, Switzerland led the way in creating the first national park in the Alps. It is situated near the village of Zernez, canton Graubünden. But Swiss pioneering efforts in this field have…

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