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• Deforestation, climate change threaten the ecological resilience of the Amazon rainforest

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  The combination of deforestation, forest degradation, and the effects of climate change are weakening the resilience of the Amazon rainforest ecosystem, potentially leading to loss of carbon storage and changes in rainfall patterns and river discharge, finds a comprehensive review published in the journal Nature .
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• New book series hopes to inspire research in worlds hottest biodiversity hotspot

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  Entomologist Dmitry Telnov hopes his new pet project will inspire and disseminate research about one of the worlds last unexplored biogeographical regions: Wallacea and New Guinea. Incredibly rich in biodiversity and still full of unknown species, the region, also known as the Indo-Australian transition, spans many of ...
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• Levis drops Asia Pulp & Paper due to its link to deforestation in Indonesia

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  Levi Strauss & Company became the latest firm to drop Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) as a supplier due to concerns over APPs continued clearing of rainforests in Sumatra, reports the Rainforest Action Network, a green group in the midst of a campaign against APP.
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• Featured video: plight of orangutans highlighted with new rock song

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  An Indonesian rock band, Navicula, is highlighting the plight of orangutans in their native country through a new song entitled, aptly, "Orangutan." The band has created a music video for the song, including footage of a documentary, Green: The Film that follows a starving female orangutan named Green. The band ...
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• Rainforests need massive finance, but REDD must be well-designed to succeed

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as avoided deforestation, the concept was simple: pay tropical forest countries to keep their forests standing. Since ...
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• New frog trumps miniscule fish for title of worlds smallest vertebrate

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  How small can you be and still have a spine? Scientists are continually surprised by the answer. Researchers have discovered a new species of frog in Papua New Guinea that is smaller than many insects and dwarfed by a dime. The frog trumps the previously known smallest vertebrate—a tiny fish—by nearly 1 millimeter.
  2 weeks ago

• Satisfy Your Senses in Costa Rica: Sight

  
  Economy Car Hire — Authority: 107
  Share/Bookmark A visit to Costa Rica is always going to be an assault on the senses; most places with a tropical climate are. Costa Rica is on a whole other scale though. It bursts with colours, flavours, sights and sounds and you’d be hard pressed to be disappointed by this multi-lingual, multi-ethnic and ...
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