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• Gone: a look at extinction over the past decade

  
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  No one can say with any certainty how many species went extinct from 2000-2009. Because no one knows if the worlds species number 3 million or 30 million, it is impossible to guess how many known species—let alone unknown—may have vanished recently. Species in tropical forests and the worlds oceans are notoriously ...
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• Bridge development in Kalimantan threatens rainforest, mangroves, and coral reef

  
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  Balikpapan Bay in East Kalimantan is home to an incredible variety of ecosystems: in the shallow bay waters endangered dugong feed on sea grasses and salt water crocodiles sleep; along the bay proboscis monkeys leap among mangroves thirty meters tall and Irrawaddy dolphins roam; beyond the mangroves lies the Sungai ...
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• The real Avatar story: indigenous people fight to save their forest homes from corporate exploitation

  
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  In James Camerons newest film Avatar an alien tribe on a distant planet fights to save their forest home from human invaders bent on mining the planet. The mining company has brought in ex-marines for security and will stop at nothing, not even genocide, to secure profits for its shareholders. While Camerons film ...
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• Unique call gives away new bird species in Laos and Vietnam

  
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  A beautiful little warbler inhabiting limestone karsts in Vietnam and Laos has been named a new species. When the limestone leaf warbler ( Phylloscopus calciatilis ) was first sighted in 1994 it was thought to be a member of the similar-looking species, the sulphur-breasted warbler, but ornithologists began to ...
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• Guyana to increase oversight of gold mining under deal to save forests with Norway

  
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  As apart of a deal with Norway to preserve its rainforests, Guyana will step up oversight of its gold mining industry, which has been accused of causing significant environmental damage including deforestation and mercury and cyanide pollution.
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• New tropical wood substitute could save rainforests worldwide

  
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  One of the main drivers of tropical deforestation is western consumption of hardwoods, more durable and weather-resistant than softwoods. For example, hardwood harvested in Southeast Asia—both legally and illegally obtained—often makes its way to China where it is crafted into cheap outdoor-ready hardwood ...
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• Uninhabited tropical island paradise seeks REDD funding to save it from loggers

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  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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• Worlds rarest gorilla caught on film

  
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  The first ever professional footage of the worlds rarest gorilla, the Cross River gorilla ( Gorilla gorilla diehli ), has been shot deep in the forested mountains of Cameroon. The only other existing footage of this Critically Endangered subspecies was taken from far away by a field researcher in 2005.
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• Pope Benedict: ecological crisis requires "review of our model of development"

  
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  Pope Benedict XVI has released a message linking world peace with preserving the environment for the World Day of Peace, which will be held on January 1st 2010. In it Benedict calls for a "long-term review" of the worlds current economic model, including "[moving] beyond a purely consumerist mentality" and encouraging ...
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• Unilever suspends palm oil contract after supplier found to be destroying rainforests

  
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  The worlds largest user of palm oil, Unilever, has suspended its $32.6 million contract with the Indonesian group Sinar Mas after an independent audit proved that Sinar Mas is involved in the destruction of rainforest, reports Reuters. The audit was conducted early this year after a report by Greenpeace alleged that ...
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• REDD may miss up to 80 percent of land use change emissions

  
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  The political definition of forest used in REDD (Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) threatens to undermine the programs objective to conserve ecosystems for their ability to sequester carbon, according to a new analysis by the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) Partnership for Tropical ...
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• US provides 3 billion in subsidies for Exxon-mobil natural gas project in Papua New Guinea

  
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  While officials from around their world are working night-and-day to come up with an international agreement to combat climate change in Copenhagen, the US Export-Import Bank confirmed it will subsidize a natural gas project in Papua New Guinea to the tune of 3 billion dollars—a record for the bank.
  3 weeks ago

• Obama on global warming and forest protection

  
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  President of the United States, Barack Obama, was in Oslo, Norway this morning accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, which he won in part for promising to bring the United States to the negotiating table on climate change—something he has recently done.
  3 weeks ago

• Video: rare footage of the sun bear, the worlds smallest, making a nest in the canopy

  
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  Sun bear expert, Siew Te Wong, has captured rare footage of the worlds smallest bear making a nest high in the canopy. The sun bear in the video is a radio-collared individual that Wong is keeping tabs on in Borneo.
  4 weeks ago

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