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Strathcona County is for the birds, but not in the negative way.

Strathcona County is for the birds, but not in the negative way.

Strathcona County is for the birds, but not in the negative way.

A. About Asian Disaster Preparedness Center ADPC is an autonomous international organization with a vision to reduce disaster and climate risk impacts on communities and countries in Asia and the Pacific by working with governments, development partners, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, private sector, media, and other key stakeholders. Established in 1986 as a technical capacity-building center, ADPC has grown and diversified its expertise across social and physical sciences to support sustainable solutions for risk reduction across a broad range of specialist areas. With ov...

Credit: Andrii Zorii/Getty Images. Last month, reports that Angola was drafting legislation to permit oil, gas, and mining activities in 14 national conservation areas, including the Luengue-Luiana National Park, which represents part of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area stretching across Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, led to protests by environmentalist groups. Local environmentalists were outraged, likely wary of test drilling that had begun days earlier on the Namibian side of the Okavango Delta, an internationally recognized biodiversity hotspot. On 21 ...