International Union for Conservation of Nature Honors Three National Reserves

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International Union for Conservation of Nature Honors Three National Reserves

Photo by SPA
Photo by SPA

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) honored three reserves affiliated with the National Center for Wildlife (NCW).

The reserves are Ibex Reserve Protected Area, Farasan Islands Protected Area, and Uruq Bani Ma'arid Reserve.

The move aims to recognize the reserves’ adherence to international standards to join the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas.

IUCN praised the NCW's efforts in these reserves to enhance the sustainability of ecosystems, enrich biodiversity, and adhere to the standards of effective management of the province in order to reach a green future, SPA reported.
This honor portrays national efforts to gain global leadership in representing ecosystems, protecting environmentally worthy areas, preserving wildlife species, and improving biodiversity.



Tintin, Popeye, Hemingway Among US Copyrights Expiring in 2025

File photo: Thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday as copyrights expire, including Tintin. AFP
File photo: Thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday as copyrights expire, including Tintin. AFP
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Tintin, Popeye, Hemingway Among US Copyrights Expiring in 2025

File photo: Thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday as copyrights expire, including Tintin. AFP
File photo: Thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday as copyrights expire, including Tintin. AFP

From "A Farewell to Arms" to the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor, thousands of artistic works will enter the public domain in the United States on Wednesday.

US copyright law expires after 95 years for books, films and other works of art, while sound recordings from 1924 will also be copyright-free.

By entering the public domain, the pieces can be copied, shared, reproduced or adapted by anyone without paying the rights owner, AFP reported.

This year's crop includes internationally recognized figures such as the comic character Tintin, who made his debut in a Belgian newspaper in 1929, and Popeye the Sailor, created by cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar.

Every December, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain publishes a list of the cultural works that lose their copyright in the new year.

The center, part of the Duke University School of Law in the southeastern US state of North Carolina, makes the list available on its website for anyone to peruse.

"In past years we have celebrated an exciting cast of public domain characters: the original Mickey Mouse and Winnie-the-Pooh, and the final iterations of Sherlock Holmes from Arthur Conan Doyle's stories," center director Jennifer Jenkins wrote on its website.

"In 2025 copyright expires over more aspects of Mickey from his 1929 incarnations, along with the initial versions of Popeye and Tintin."

Among the literary works entering the US public domain on January 1 are the novels "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner, "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf and the first English translation of "All Quiet on the Western Front" by the German author Erich Maria Remarque.

Films that will be in the public domain include "Blackmail," directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and "The Black Watch," the first sound film by Oscar-winning director John Ford.

Musical compositions published in 1929, such as "Bolero" by French composer Maurice Ravel and "An American in Paris" by George Gershwin, will lose their copyrights, though only recordings from 1924 or earlier will be in the public domain.