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• Discover the Magnificent Yellow Headed Amazon Parrot!

  
  Cool Pet Sites — Authority: 157
  The Yellow Headed Amazon Parrot has its origins in the coastal regions of Mexico. They are found in tropical and sub-tropical rain forests, savannahs and mangrove swamps in addition to Belize, Honduras and Guatemala. They can even be found in cultivated areas as long as there are trees at hand for nesting. Read more ...
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• Top 7 adventure activities near Arenal, Costa Rica

  
  Gadling — Authority: 686
  Filed under: Climbing , Hiking , Costa Rica , Ecotourism , Budget Travel , Central America For travelers in search of a little adrenaline, the Arenal region of Costa Rica serves up adventure any way you like it. The area around the Arenal volcano in Costa Rica, about 80 miles north of San Jose in the ...
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• 40% of lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo cleared in 15 years

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a new high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia.
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• Norway to give Guyana up to $250M for rainforest conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Norway will provide up to $250 million to Guyana as part of the South American countrys effort to avoid emissions from deforestation.
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• Survey reveals where to buy sustainable palm oil

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 138
  Orangutans are under threat because of unsustainable palm oil production A new WWF survey says a handful of companies are showing real progress in their commitments to buy and use sustainable palm oil. But sadly, the majority, contrary to their commitments, are failing to buy the product in spite of its ...
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• Exhibition – Rainforests: The burning issue

  
  Daisy Green — Authority: 138
  PRP supporter Harrison Ford This October, the National Geographic Store in London is supporting The Prince’s Rainforests Project (PRP) by hosting a free photo exhibition, Rainforests: The Burning Issue, in its Regent Street store. The exhibition will run from Monday 26 October until Sunday 22 November 2009 and ...
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• Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...
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• Hawaii Travel Packages Save You Money

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
  Hawaii travel packages can save you money, and also save you time in making your own holiday plans. A package deal to Hawaii can be the answer to your prayers if you want an exotic vacation at as low a price as possible. Package deals are available for a number of different islands or just a single island if you have ...
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• Ants can be both friends and enemies of trees

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, November 7 (ANI): A new research has suggested that when tree-dwelling ants run out of space in their trees of choice, they can get destructive to neighboring trees.The research is the first to document that ants bore into live trees, and it reopens a centuries-old debate on the relationship between ants ...
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• Forestry Talks in Barcelona End in Toothless Agreement

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 619
  Reporting from Barcelona, Spain Hopes for a strong global deal that would pay poor nations to stop deforestation hit a new low on Friday after negotiators at the climate talks in Barcelona released a draft proposal that lacks teeth. The new text on reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, called REDD, ...
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• Important safeguards to protect rainforests lacking in REDD negotiating text

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Important safeguards to protect natural forests are still lacking in negotiating text on REDD, a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change by paying developing countries to keep trees standing, reports an alliance of activist groups.
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• Salmon Swimming Free – Rainforest Dispatches, chapter 7/9

  
  Choogle On! with Uncle Weed - Renegade documentaries — Authority: 103
  Visiting again with friend Kevin, Uncle Weed discusses the negative impact salmon fish farms impart on the local aquaculture. Specifically, Atlantic salmon living in pens attract hazardous sea lice, are unable to spawn, are fed with small fish imported from South America, and are dyed to appear more attractive in the ...
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• Worlds first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Rare, elusive, and endangered by habitat loss, the bay cat is one of the worlds least studied wild cats. Several specimens of the cat were collected in the 19th and 20th Century, but a living cat wasnt even photographed until 1998. Now, researchers in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, have managed to capture the first film of ...
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• Blue Man Group’s Frog Message: No Words Necessary…

  
  eCo Times — Authority: 117
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• Palm oil threatens Borneos rarest cats

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Oil palm expansion is threatening Borneos rarest wild cats, reports a new study based on three years of fieldwork and more than 17,000 camera trap nights. Studying cats in five locations—each with different environments—in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, researchers found that four of five cat species are threatened by ...
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• Conservation and Carbon in Borneo’s Heart and Ours

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  My friend Rezal Kusumaatmadja contacted me in July to ask if I could join him and some of his associates for a couple of days in the village Mendawai, located along the Katingan River in south central Kalimantan. The purpose of the gathering was to bring everyone in the group up to date on progress and challenges ...
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• Non-Malaysian and Indonesian palm oil producers pledge not to develop peatlands for plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Palm oil producers outside of Malaysia and Indonesia pledged to stop developing new plantations on peatlands, circumventing an impasse that developed between palm oil producers and environmental groups meeting this week at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil in Kuala Lumpur. The factions deadlocked over plans to ...
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• Emissions from deforestation overestimated; 12% rather than 17%

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation are lower than previously believed, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience . The findings mean that developing countries may see less money under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism.
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• Impasse over palm oil emissions at RSPO meeting

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Environmentalists and palm oil producers meeting at the annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) were locked in an impasse over how to account for emissions from converting forests and peatlands to oil palm plantations, report conference attendees.
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• Using forests to finance conservation and communities in a former war zone: Colombias Choco

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 137
  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits at multiple scales. But serious questions remain, especially in regard to local communities. Will they benefit from ...
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