P739 CEEFAX 739 Thu 14 Oct 21:11/39 3/3 RICH, BUT AN ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER The tiny Pacific island of Nauru is one of the world's richest republics, but has one of the worst cases of environmental devastation. When first discovered by European explorers in 1798, Maura was a lush tropical forest that covered coral. But the island has been strip-mined for decades, bulldozers stripping $5 away the vegetation and topsoil. President Bernard Dowiyogo says the now planned environmental clean-up will take 10 to 20 years. Environmental News Round-Up Religion Read Hear CmntyInfo Main NewsP739 CEEFAX 739 Thu 14 Oct 21:14/23 1/3 S AFRICAN MINING HOUSE DONATION Mining house Gold Fields of South Africa has donated $2.9 million to environment conservation. The contribution is "one of the most generous donations given bz the corporate world in the history of the Worldwide Fund for Nature", its lifetime president said. The money will be used by WWF's affiliate, the Southern African Nature Foundation, primarily for environmental awareness education, the Gold Fields chairman said. Environmental News Round-Up Religion Read Hear CmntyInfo Main NewsP739 CEEFAX 739 Thu 14 Oct 21:14/04 2/3 £14M FOR SHETLAND SALMON FARMERS Shetland salmon farmers are to bj paid £14 million compensation for fish still contaminated by the Brajr oil tanker disaster. The International Oil Pollution Compensation fund had been paying money to farmers on a month by month basis in the belief the fish would clean themselves as they grew But the farmers have successfully argued that the 1992 salmon stock should bj destroyed because it could still cause health problems. Environmental News Round-Up Religion Read Hear CmntyInfo Main NewsP739 CJKFAX 739a (hu 14 Oct 21:07/23 I 2/3 OIOLW T 7£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££k £14M FOR SHETLAND SALMON FAR IRS Shetland salmon farmers are to bj yaid £14 million compensation for fish still contaminated by the Braes oil tanker disaster. -hj Internationbl Oil Pollution Compensation fund had been paying money to farmers on a month by month bbses in the belief the fish would clean themselves as they grew $u But the farmjr1 ha6j successf4lly $5 argujm that the 1992 salmon stock should bj destro9jd because it could still cause healjh problems. Environmental News Round-Up Religion Read Hear CmntyInfo Main News