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• Orangutan Awareness in Borneo - ‘planting trees for the future’

  
  Orangutan Foundation — Authority: 415
  Togu Simorangkir, director of Yayorin (Yayasan Orangutan Indonesia), our local partners, sent through some photo’s of their Orangutan Awareness Week activities.  Yayorin’s theme for Orangutan Awareness Week 2009 is ‘Planting trees for the future’. They are targeting villages surrounding areas of ...
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• How to restore a tropical rain forest

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 113
  Here’s a little story for you about how a casual chat over a glass of wine (or many) can lead to great scientific endeavours. A few years ago I was sitting in the living room of my good friends Noel Preece and Penny van Oosterzee in Darwin chatting about life, the universe, and everything. They rather casually ...
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• The tree nursery grows again…

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 410
  As the rains enter full swing, the staff and volunteers at The Colobus Trust have been working hard to prepare the tree nursery for what is surely one of its busiest seasons. This week, Dougie and John took it upon themselves to start sorting through the various plants and trees which make up the nursery. Visitors to ...
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• UN INITIATIVE TO TACKLE DEFORESTATION (UNNews / REDD)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : UNNewsFIVE NATIONS SIGN UP TO UN INITIATIVE TO TACKLE DEFORESTATIONNew York, Nov  2 2009  3:05PMFive countries today <”http://www.un-redd.org/NewsCentre/tabid/969/language/en-US/Default.aspx”>joined the United Nations initiative aimed at combating climate change by creating incentives for poorer ...
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• Georgia Forestry Commission Begins Restoration through ARRA Grants

  
  Georgia Front Page — Authority: 124
  The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) has embarked on a reforestation project made possible by funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The first of five grants totaling $9.7 million will provide for the planting of seedlings in a suburban Atlanta forest. Funded by the ARRA, the Regional ...
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• "Money is not a problem," palm oil CEO tells conservationists during speech defending the industry

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  Earlier this month at a colloquium to implement wildlife corridors for orangutans in the Malaysian state of Sabah, Dr. Yusof Basiron, the CEO of Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), told conservationists and primate experts that the palm oil industry was ready to fund reforestation efforts in the corridors. "We can ...
  2 weeks ago

• Result of coral reef deaths: loss in billions of dollars

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 604
  Based on previous estimates, coral reefs are said to earn nearly $30 billion a year ‘by attracting tourists, protecting commercial fish species and protecting coasts from storm surges.’ A new study that further investigated the economic value of coral reefs suggests that ‘a single hectare of coral reef can be ...
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• Logged forests support biodiversity after 15 years of rehabilitation, but not if turned into plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  With the world facing global warming and a biodiversity crisis, a new study shows that within 15 years logged forests—considered by many to be degraded—can be managed in order to successfully fight both climate change and extinction.
  3 weeks ago

• Uganda commits to reforestation (AfricaFiles / afrol)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 148
  Read at : AfricaFilesUganda commits to reforestation Author: afrol NewsDate Written: 7 October 2009Primary Category: Ecology Document Origin: afrol NewsSecondary Category: Eastern Region Source URL: http://www.afrol.comKey Words: Uganda, reforestation, Clean Development MechanismAfrican Charter Article #24: All ...
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• Wyclef Jean x Timberland Earthkeepers - Yle Haiti Product Collaboration Line

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 541
  just moments ago, grammy award-winning musician wyclef jean announced a new partnership with footwear maker timberland at a private concert here in new york city. the event, opened by an interview with urban environmentalist majora carter, founder of sustainable south bronx, highlighted the need for preserving and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Business and conservation groups team up to conserve and better manage USs southern forests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  A new project entitled Carbon Canopy brings together multiple stakeholders—from big business to conservation organizations to private landowners—in order to protect and better manage the United States southern forests. The program intends to employ the emerging US forest carbon market to pay private forest owners ...
  4 weeks ago

• Palm oil industry pledges wildlife corridors to save orangutans

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 138
  In an unlikely—and perhaps tenuous—alliance, conservationists and the palm oil industry met this week to draw up plans to save Asias last great ape, the orangutan. As if to underscore the colloquiums importance, delegates on arriving in the Malaysian State of Sabah found the capital covered in a thick and strange ...
  5 weeks ago

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