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• DNA uncovers nearly extinct Siamese crocodiles in captivity

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  The Critically Endangered Siamese crocodile, once believed to be extinct in the wild, received some uplifting news this week. DNA testing of 69 rescued crocodiles at Phnom Tama Wildlife Rescue Center (PTWRC) in Cambodia found 35 purebred Siamese crocodiles.
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• New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

  
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  A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations. The report from the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Boreal Songbird ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• Trucks, Trains and Trees

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Tapajós National Forest, Brazil No matter how many times you hear them, there are some statistics that just bowl you over. The one that always stuns me is this: Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in the world and added up their exhaust ...
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• Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

  
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  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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• Worlds first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat

  
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  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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• Palm oil threatens Borneos rarest cats

  
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  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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• Gucci drops APP in pledge to save rainforests

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  One of the worlds largest and most prestigious fashion brands has stated it will stop sourcing paper from Indonesian forests and will drop Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) as a supplier, which has become notorious for tropical deforestation. The move comes after pressure from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) on the ...
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• Illegal logging trade from Myanmar to China slows, but doesnt stop

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  The illegal wood trade from Myanmar to China has slowed, but it still threatens Myanmars tropical forests and species, according to a new report by Global Witness. From 2005 and 2008 improved border controls into China led to a drop in imports of logs and sawn wood by 70 percent.
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• Global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  Washington, October 28 (ANI): In a new analysis, two Penn State University researchers have determined that global warming cycles threaten endangered primate species.This innovative work by Graduate Student Ruscena Wiederholt and Associate Professor of Biology Eric Post examined how El Nino warming affected the ...
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• Crisis averted for now, Peruvian natives will meet with Hunt Oil

  
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  Indigenous groups in a dispute with Hunt Oil, over the company performing seismic tests their land, have scheduled a meeting with the Texas based oil corporation, according to Reuters.
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• Will Ecuadors plan to raise money for not drilling oil in the Amazon succeed?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  Ecuadors Yasuni National Park is full of wealth: it is one of the richest places on earth in terms of biodiversity; it is home to the indigenous Waorani people, as well as several uncontacted tribes; and the parks forest and soil provides a massive carbon sink. However, Yasuni National Park also sits on wealth of a ...
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• "Money is not a problem," palm oil CEO tells conservationists during speech defending the industry

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  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 ...
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• New reserve created in Cambodia with REDD in mind

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  Cambodias Royal Governments Council of Ministers has declared the creation of the Seima Protection Forest, a 1,100 square miles (2,849 square kilometers) park home to tigers, elephants, and endangered primates. The parks creation was developed in part by the Wildlife Conservation Societys (WCS) "Carbon for ...
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• Amazonian natives say they will defend tribal lands from Hunt Oil with "their lives"

  
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  Indigenous natives in the Amazon are headed to the town of Salvacion in Peru with a plan to forcibly remove the Texas-based Hunt Oil company from their land as early as today. Peruvian police forces, numbering in the hundreds, are said to be waiting in the town. The crisis has risen over an area known as Lot 76, or ...
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• The faster, fiercer, and always surprising sloth, an interview with Bryson Voirin

  
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  Sloths sleep all day; they are always slow; and they are gentle animals. These are just some of the popular misconceptions that sloth-scientist and expert tree-climber, Bryson Voirin, is overturning. After growing up among the wild creatures of Florida, spending his high school years in Germany, and earning a ...
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• A Superior Brand of Reductions

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 423
  By: Katie Romans PG&Es ClimateSmart program , which helps enrolled customers offset the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions associated with their energy use, this week is announcing two new GHG emission reduction projects -- each of which tests a new kind of protocol under the Climate Action Reserve . ...
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• Logged forests support biodiversity after 15 years of rehabilitation, but not if turned into plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  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.
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• Emotional call for palm oil industry to address environmental problems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  During what was at times an emotional speech, Sabahs Minister of Tourism, Culture, and Environment, Datuk Masidi Manjun, called on the palm oil industry to stop polluting rivers and work with NGOs to save orangutans and other wildlife. He delivered the speech on the first day of an Orangutan Conservation Colloquium ...
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• Present day tropical plant families survived in warmer, wetter tropics 58 million years ago

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 139
  Fifty eight million years ago the tropical rainforests of South America shared many similarities with todays Neotropical forests, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Looking at over 2,000 fossils in Colombia from one of the worlds largest open pit coal mines, ...
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