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Mexico On Par with Costa Rica in Conservation Investment

December 4, 2007 – 2:45 am

TreeHugger
As we’ve noted before, the building boom along Mexico’s coasts does not bode well for biosphere reserves and threatened species in this country of incredible biodiversity. But we were surprised to learn that Mexico now invests close to four dollars per hectare in conservation, matching Costa Rica, the highest spender in Latin America, in terms [...]

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Costa Rica and US swap debt for nature

October 25, 2007 – 11:27 am

Alejandra Vargas
24 October 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[SAN JOSE] Costa Rica and the United States have signed an agreement to swap US$26 million of Cost Rican debt for funds to protect more than 1,000 acres of tropical forest.
The move will protect biodiversity in the region and help thousands of indigenous people maintain sustainable livelihoods.
The two countries made [...]

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Palm oil tries to show its sustainable side

September 25, 2007 – 10:14 am

scidev.net
20 September 2007
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A palm oil plantation and
oil mill in Malaysia

The palm oil industry is thriving and oil palm monocultures now dominate the landscape of South-East Asia.
But while it grows, the industry is becoming aware that it needs to prove its sustainability and curb destructive growth, such as cutting down biodiversity-rich forest to make way [...]

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Biodiversity requires global monitoring mechanism

September 8, 2007 – 4:31 am

Michel Loreau
4 September 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

The gap between research and
policy should be filled

With global diversity increasingly at risk, a mechanism like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is required, argues Michel Loreau.
Biodiversity has received increasing attention from scientists, governments and the public since the ‘Earth Summit’ at Rio de Janeiro and the establishment of the international [...]

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Community forestry: the regreening of the Himalayas

August 25, 2007 – 1:14 am

T. V. Padma
16 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

Commuity forestry aims to
mix pine with more broad
leaf plants

Leafy forests replanted by communities in Nepal are flying in the face of accepted conservation practice, reports T. V. Padma.
The shaded path, insect buzz and distant calls of birds signal the beginning of a small forest in Nepal’s middle Himalayas. Traversing up [...]

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Climate change devastating wildlife in East Africa

August 21, 2007 – 3:34 am

Kennedy Abwao
17 August 2007
Source: SciDev.Net

Climate change is affecting
the behaviour of wildlife

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) says climate change is to blame for increasing conflicts between humans and wildlife across East Africa, and is heightening the risk that animal diseases will spread.
The Biodiversity Research Unit of the KWS warns in its annual report — released last [...]

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African ecologists unite for environment

July 29, 2007 – 2:37 am

ESEA aims to protect east Africa’s ecology
Kennedy Abwao
10 May 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[NAIROBI] East African scientists have united in a bid to protect the region’s ecology and biodiversity from changing climatic conditions, the invasion of pests, and unsustainable development.
The newly formed Ecological [...]

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Immigration Meets Environmentalism

June 26, 2007 – 8:38 pm

TreeHugger
Immigration advocates and sympathizers aren’t alone in expressing opposition to federal plans to erect a fence along the border separating states like Texas and Arizona from Mexico. The North American Butterfly Association, which set up a park in Mission, Texas, to serve as a wildlife refuge in the Rio Grande Valley as part of a [...]