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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 123
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 520
  (Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program , celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the ...
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• High gold prices, army collaboration, play role in mining invasion in southern Venezuela

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Illegal gold mining involving wildcat miners, the Venezuelan army, and indigenous groups is threatening one of the countrys most biodiverse river basins, according to local sources.
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• Only 8 Rangers Patrol 3rd Largest National Park in Amazon Rainforest

  
  ecopolitology — Authority: 467
  While it’s not news to most of us who work in or follow international conservation, Peru’s El Comercio newspaper ran a story today about how only 8 park rangers patrol Alto Purús National Park. Alto Purús is the largest national park in Peru and the third largest in all of South America. Alto Purús ...
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• REDD may not be enough to save Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A prominent REDD project in Aceh Indonesia probably wont be enough to save Northern Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests from logging and conversion to oil plantations and agriculture, report researchers writing in Environmental Research Letters. The study highlights the contradiction between the Ulu Masen ...
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• Transmitters implanted in orangutans for tracking after release into the wild

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  For the first time transmitters have been implanted in orangutans to track their daily movements. The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) has implanted transmitters into three orangutans that have been released back into the wild from Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of ...
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• Photo of new chameleon species discovered in Tanzania

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Researchers have discovered a new species of chameleon in southern Tanzania.
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• Ghost Forest @ Trafalgar Square.

  
  keepfakingit.com — Authority: 104
  I was at Angela Porter’s Ghost Forest installation outside of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square this afternoon. Brilliant. The 10 Ghanaian tree stumps really made an impression, not easy in such a space. Here are some photos and I’ve copied the official blurb below. Show’s over now but it moves on to ...
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• Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Google looks set to play a part in a called-for "new environmental world order" by satellite-monitoring the rates of deforestation of tropical rainforests and pinpointing illegal logging and land misuse, Google’s Northern and Central Europe head Philipp Schindler has revealed. Schindler made the announcement in ...
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• U.S. pledges $275M to rainforest conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The U.S. pledged $275 million to efforts to reduce deforestation in developing countries, reports Reuters.
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• Jungle Adventure part 2

  
  CERCOPAN — Authority: 110
  The third day was supposed to be the last and we looked forward to a shower and a tastier meal, but a lot of surprises and events were waiting for us in the hours that followed.   We left early, carrying our loads, which were thankfully lighter than the first day.  My shoes were dry from the fire, but this became ...
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• Ghost Forest Highlights Rainforest Destruction

  
  Recycling, Green, and Environmental News — Authority: 143
  In the fight against climate change there are many issues that are important.  While some focus on emissions from cars and other devices, others look at ways of potentially dealing with the emissions after the fact.  One of the major problems when it comes to climate change is the deforestation of the world’s ...
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• Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the worlds highest carbon emitter, 50 percent of its growth over the last year was ...
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• Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Ministers statements

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  On October 19th, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysias national poverty line, according to a story in the Malaysian Insider . But now representatives of the workers are saying Dompok lied.
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• Prince Charles campaign to save the rainforests backed by the US Senate

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 973
  The crusade by the Prince of Wales to save the worlds rainforests has been bolstered by a £165 million cash pledge from the US senate.
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• REDD may increase the cost of conservation of non-forest ecosystems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Policy-makers designing a climate change mitigation mechanism that will reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) arent doing enough to ensure that the scheme protects biodiversity outside carbon-dense ecosystems, argues an editorial published in Current Biology by a group of scientists.
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• Indonesian government suspends license of logging company in controversial forest area

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The Indonesian government today temporarily suspended the license of Asia Pacific Resources International Holding Limited (APRIL) for developing an area of forest and peatland in Sumatra pending a review of the companys permits, reports Greenpeace.
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• Gibson Guitar under federal investigation for use of illegal rainforest timber from Madagascar

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Federal agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raided Gibson Guitars factory Tuesday afternoon, due to concerns that the company had been using illegally harvested wood from Madagascar, reports the Nashville Post .
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• Pygmy hippo shot and killed in…Australia

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Hunters going after pigs in Australias Northwest Territories got a big surprise when they shot an animal they mistook for a pig, only to find out it was a pygmy hippopotamus, reports the Northwest Territory News.
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• Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation [REDD] programs that include landowners will conserve more habitat and ensure greater ecosystem services function than programs that focus solely on protected areas, report researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental ...
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