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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “protected areas”

• Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: A Close Encounter with a Dugong

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition .) Marine mammals such as whales and dolphins are ...
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• Brazil: king of conservation, deforestation for the 2000s

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  Brazil set aside more land in protected areas than any other country during the 2000s, accounting for nearly 60 percent of total terrestrial conservation during the decade, according to mongabay.coms analysis of data from the U.N Environment Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Center. Paradoxically, Brazil ...
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• Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: The Beauty of Cooperation

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition .) While I’m here in Raja Ampat , I’ve been ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Friday, December 18

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  Five great green stories to distract you while you wait anxiously for the latest news from Copenhagen : Weird Solar Device of the Day goes to…this solar-powered, Joseph Cornell-like live insect theater box ( Treehugger ). Buy an electric car for less than $900 ? You can in Oklahoma through New Year’s ...
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• Kenya REDD project becomes first in Africa to win gold-level validation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  A Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) project in Kenya has become the first in Africa to win GOLD level validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Alliances REDD Standard, a certification program to ensure that communities and biodiversity benefit from such projects.
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• Uninhabited tropical island paradise seeks REDD funding to save it from loggers

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  Tetepare may be one of the last tropical island paradises left on earth. Headhunting and a mysterious illness drove its original inhabitants from the island two hundred years ago, making Tetepare today the largest uninhabited island in the tropical Pacific. The 120 square kilometer island (46 square miles), long ...
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• Malaysia to allow logging in indigenous peace park to proceed

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  Malaysia, the country with the fastest rate of greenhouse gas emissions growth since 1990 among middle and upper income countries, will allow logging to proceed in a contested rainforest area in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo.
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• Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: Weird and Wonderful Corals

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition .) We are in Southeast Misool , which boasts some ...
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• Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: Monitoring Coral Reef Resilience

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition .) In conservation circles, everyone is talking ...
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• The Future of Wild Places in China: Experiments in Private Management?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Editor’s note: Charles Bedford, the state director for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, is living and working in China for the next year and will be writing about conservation issues there. Read all his posts .) A couple posts back I noted the similarities between Potatso (Pudacuo) National Park in Diqing, ...
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• Some Early Presents …

  
  Spoutingoff's Blog — Authority: 106
  Chanukah came early for L.A. coastal waters Just in time for Chanukah, or a little early for Christmas … It may not have been a MacBook Air, a PS3, or even the latest iPhone, but Southern California’s coastal waters this week received some regulatory presents significantly better than a pack of Zhu Zhu Pets. ...
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• Tony Soprano, Atlantic City, and…Conservation?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  With 1,174 residents per square mile, it is the most densely populated state in the country. Its “Meadowlands” is not known for wildlife diversity, but rather football diversity (the only stadium home to two NFL teams). The longest hike many visitors may take is along Atlantic City’s neon-lit boardwalk. In ...
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• SANParks Transfers Filming and Photography Permit Function from Pretoria to Cape Town

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 140
  In August this year, SANParks internalised the Commercial Filming and Photography permit process which was previously contracted to a service provider. The intentions for doing this were numerous; one of the main reasons being SANParks’ compliance with the Public Finance Management Act and another being that ...
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• Brazil allocates first funds under plan to save the Amazon

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  Brazils development bank BNDES has announced the first five recipients of grants under the South American countrys ambitious Amazon Fund, which aims to reduce deforestation by 70 percent over the next decade.
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• Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: Does Size Matter?

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  (Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition .) When it comes to coral reef ecology, size ...
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• Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest law firms. The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C.-based forest conservation ...
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• Season’s Gratings

  
  Spoutingoff's Blog — Authority: 106
  Bah humbug! for MPAs and TMDLs? December means the holidays, and some very cold weather (at least for L.A.) and rain. It also means me eating way too many baked goods.  This year, December also brings major decisions that will affect coastal resources for generations to come — specifically votes on  marine ...
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• Expedition to the Raja Ampat Islands: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 521
  Editor’s note: Conservancy Senior Marine Scientist Alison Green is on an expedition to the Raja Ampat islands in Indonesia — amidst some of the most spectacular and biodiverse coral reef ecosystems in the world. Catch up on all her posts from the expedition . When Dr. Seuss wrote the iconic children’s book ...
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• Proposed marine proteced area is “our last best hope”

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  By Mike Laude / North County Times / December 4, 2009I love searching the ocean for fish and other good things to eat. But the ocean has been changing, and so have I.My addiction began on a day when the surf at Windansea was, at best, knee high. I swam from Windansea to Bird Rock, gawking at halibut, lobsters, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Extinctions on the rise in the Galapagos: fishing and global warming devastating islands species

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 144
  We may never see again the Galapagos black-spotted damselfish, the beautiful 24-rayed sunstar, or the Galapagos stringweed. These species from Galapagos waters may all very well be extinct. Other species are on the brink, such as the Galapagos penguin and the Floreana cup coral. A new report in Global Change Biology ...
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