In 2010, HSI and its allies successfully fought off a proposal by a number of member governments — including the United States — to relax the quarter - century - old worldwide ban on commercial whaling. (hsi.org)
Aldicarb was the first of the so - called «dirty dozen» pesticides that an environmental group, Pesticide Action Network North America, targeted in 1985 for worldwide ban. (scientificamerican.com)
It has nothing to do with global warming and almost everything to do with the near - worldwide ban on polar bear hunting, which hitherto kept populations in manageable numbers. (breitbart.com)