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What is the zip code for places in Arkansas ?

Listed numerically by zip code
Zip code | Name | Area Code(s)

71601 Arsenal
71601 Hardin
71601 Jefferson Square
71601 Pine Bluff
71602 Pine Bluff
71602 White Hall
71603 Pine Bluff
71611 Pine Bluff
71612 Pine Bluff
71612 White Hall
71613 Pine Bluff
71630 Arkansas City
71631 Banks
71631 Gravelridge
71631 Lanark
71635 Crossett
71635 Meridian
71638 Baxter
71638 Bellaire
71638 Collins
71638 Dermott
71638 Halley
71638 Halley Junction
71639 Avery
71639 Back Gate
71639 Dumas
71639 Garrett Bridge
71639 Mitchellville
71639 Pendleton
71639 Reedville
71640 Boueff
71640 Chicot
71640 Endoka
71640 Eudora
71640 Grand Lake
71640 Indian
71640 Readland
71642 Fort Hill
71642 Fountain Hill
71643 Cole Spur
71643 Gould
71643 Meroney
71644 Grady
71644 Shannon
71644 Tamo
71646 Beech Creek
71646 Berea
71646 Berlin
71646 Bovine
71646 Fountain Prairie
71646 Gulledge
71646 Hamburg
71646 Milo
71646 Mist
71646 Old Milo
71647 Hermitage
71647 Johnsville
71647 Mount Olive
71647 Patsville
71647 Rock Island Junction
71647 Smearney
71647 Sumpter
71647 Vick
71651 Jersey
71651 Morobay
71652 Kingsland
71652 Saline
71653 Ashton
71653 Chanticleer
71653 Fairview
71653 Gaines Landing
71653 Jennie
71653 Lake Village
71653 Luna
71653 Macon Lake
71653 McMilan Corner
71653 Panther Forest
71653 Red Leaf
71653 Shives
71654 Masonville
71654 Mc Gehee
71654 McArthur
71654 McGehee
71654 Trippe
71655 Coleman
71655 Cominto
71655 Florence
71655 Lacey
71655 Ladelle
71655 Monticello
71655 Montongo
71655 Mount Tabor
71655 Tennessee
71655 UA Monticello
71656 Monticello
71656 University of Arkansas
71657 Monticello
71658 Boydell
71658 Montrose
71658 Snyder
71658 Thebes
71659 Linwood
71659 Moscow
71660 Hebron
71660 New Edinburg
71660 Orlando
71661 Empire
71661 Parkdale
71662 Gourd
71662 Pickens
71662 Tyro
71663 Portland
71665 Calmer
71665 Dialion
71665 Herbine
71665 Kedron
71665 Pansy
71665 Randall
71665 Rison
71665 Rowell
71665 Rye
71665 Staves
71665 Toledo
71666 Duce
71666 Mc Gehee
71666 McGehee
71666 Possum Fork
71666 Rohwer
71667 Cornerville
71667 Crigler
71667 Glendale
71667 Griffith Spring
71667 Nebo
71667 Palmyra
71667 Relfs Bluff
71667 Star City
71667 Tarry
71670 Selma
71670 Tillar
71671 Bradley Quarters
71671 Carmel
71671 Farmville
71671 McKinney
71671 Warren
71674 Kelso
71674 Kurdo
71674 Red Fork
71674 Watson
71674 Yancopin
71675 Green Hill
71675 Rock Springs
71675 Wilmar
71676 Wilmot
71677 Winchester
71677 Yukon
71678 Yorktown
71701 Camden
71701 East Camden
71711 Camden
71720 Bearden
71721 Beirne
71722 Bluff City
71724 Calion
71725 Carthage
71726 Chidester
71728 Curtis
71730 El Dorado
71731 El Dorado
71740 Emerson
71742 Fordyce
71743 Gurdon
71744 Hampton
71745 Harrell
71747 Huttig
71748 Ivan
71749 Junction City
71750 Lawson
71751 Louann
71752 Mc Neil
71753 Magnolia
71753 Village
71754 Magnolia
71758 Mount Holly
71759 Norphlet
71762 Smackover
71763 Manning
71763 Sparkman
71764 Stephens
71765 Strong
71766 Thornton
71768 El Dorado
71768 Urbana
71770 Waldo
71772 Whelen Springs
71801 Hope
71801 Perrytown
71802 Hope
71820 Alleene
71822 Ashdown
71823 Ben Lomond
71825 Blevins
71826 Bradley
71827 Buckner
71828 Cale
71831 Columbus
71832 De Queen
71833 Dierks
71834 Doddridge
71835 Emmet
71836 Foreman
71837 Fouke
71838 Fulton
71839 Garland City
71840 Genoa
71841 Gillham
71842 Horatio
71845 Lewisville
71846 Lockesburg
71847 Mc Caskill
71851 Mineral Springs
71852 Nashville
71853 Ogden
71854 Texarkana
71855 Ozan
71857 Laneburg
71857 Prescott
71858 Rosston
71859 Okay
71859 Saratoga
71860 Stamps
71861 Taylor
71862 Washington
71864 Willisville
71865 Wilton
71866 Winthrop
71901 Blue Springs
71901 Central City
71901 Euclid Heights
71901 Fountain Lake
71901 Hot Spring National Park
71901 Hot Springs
71901 Hot Springs National
71901 Hot Springs National Park
71901 Lakeside
71901 Mount Valley
71901 Mountain Valley
71901 Oaklawn
71901 Ozark Lithia
71901 Piney
71901 Pleasant Hill
71901 Price
71901 Red Oak
71902 Hot Springs
71902 Hot Springs National
71902 Hot Springs National Park
71903 Hot Springs
71903 Hot Springs National Park
71909 Hot Springs
71909 Hot Springs National
71909 Hot Springs National Park
71909 Hot Springs Village
71909 Hot Springs Vl
71910 Hot Springs
71910 Hot Springs National Park
71910 Hot Springs Village
71913 Hot Springs
71913 Hot Springs National
71913 Hot Springs National Park
71913 Lake Hamilton
71914 Hot Springs
71914 Hot Springs National
71914 Hot Springs National Park
71920 Alpine
71920 Amity
71921 Alpine
71921 Amity
71921 Caney Valley
71921 Elm
71921 Fendley
71921 Point Cedar
71921 Rosboro
71922 Antoine
71923 Arkadelphia
71923 Caddo Valley
71923 Dalark
71923 Degray
71923 Griffithtown
71923 Gum Springs
71923 Hearn
71923 Hollywood
71923 Joan
71923 Richwood
71923 West Gum Springs
71923 Witherspoon
71929 Bismarck
71929 Lambert
71932 Board Camp
71932 Opal
71933 Bonnerdale
71933 Mazarn
71935 Caddo Gap
71935 Fancy Hill
71935 Hopper
71935 Manfred
71937 Cove
71937 Hatton
71940 Bowen
71940 Delight
71940 Pike
71940 Piney Grove
71940 Pisgah
71940 Tobin
71941 Donaldson
71941 Saginaw
71942 Friendship
71943 Glenwood
71943 Lodi
71944 Grannis
71945 Hatfield
71949 Beaudry
71949 Buckville
71949 Jessieville
71950 Kirby
71951 Hot Springs
71951 Hot Springs National Park
71952 Langley
71953 Acorn
71953 Big Fork
71953 Black Fork
71953 Dallas
71953 Ink
71953 Mena
71953 Menos
71953 Mountain Fork
71953 Nunley
71953 Potter
71953 Potter Junction
71953 Rocky
71953 Yocana
71956 Mount Pine
71956 Mountain Pine
71957 Mount Ida
71958 Billstown
71958 Kimberley
71958 Mount Moriah
71958 Murfreesboro
71959 Newhope
71960 Norman
71961 Huddleston
71961 Oden
71961 Pine Ridge
71961 Whitetown
71962 Okolona
71964 Pearcy
71965 Pencil Bluff
71965 Y City
71966 Oden
71966 Pine Ridge
71968 Bear
71968 Royal
71969 Gibbs
71969 Sims
71970 Story
71971 Athens
71971 Umpire
71972 Vandervoort
71973 Wickes
71998 Arkadelphia
71998 Ouachita Baptist University
71999 Arkadelphia
71999 Henderson State University
72001 Adona
72002 Alexander
72003 Almyra
72004 Altheimer
72005 Amagon
72005 Balch
72006 Augusta
72007 Austin
72010 Bald Knob
72011 Bauxite
72012 Beebe
72013 Bee Branch
72014 Beedeville
72015 Benton
72015 Bryant
72015 Haskell
72015 Tull
72016 Bigelow
72017 Biscoe
72018 Benton
72019 Benton
72019 Bryant
72020 Bradford
72021 Brinkley
72022 Benton
72022 Bryant
72023 Cabot
72024 Carlisle
72024 Hamilton
72025 Casa
72025 Divide
72025 Homewood
72025 Pontoon
72025 Round Mountain
72026 Casscoe
72027 Catholic Point
72027 Center Ridge
72027 Lick Mountain
72027 Middleton
72028 Choctaw
72029 Clarendon
72030 Beverage Town
72030 Cleveland
72031 Alread
72031 Botkinburg
72031 Clinton
72031 Crabtree
72031 Culpeper
72031 Formosa
72031 Koch Ridge
72031 Plant
72031 Rex
72031 Rupert
72031 Walnut Grove
72032 Beryl
72032 Brumley
72032 Central Baptist College
72032 Conway
72032 Gleason
72032 Gold Creek
72032 Gold Lake Estates
72032 Preston
72032 Saltillo
72032 Skunkhollow
72033 Conway
72034 Conway
72035 Conway
72035 UCA
72035 University of Central
72035 University of Central Ar
72036 Cotton Plant
72036 Maberry
72037 Coy
72038 Crocketts Bluff
72039 Damascus
72039 Gravesville
72039 Martinville
72039 Twin Groves
72040 Childress
72040 Des Arc
72040 Four Mile Corner
72040 Hayley
72040 Little Dixie
72040 Sand Hill
72041 De Valls Bluff
72041 Devalls Bluff
72041 Tollville
72042 De Luce
72042 De Witt
72042 Dewitt
72043 Diaz
72044 Brewer
72044 Edgemont
72044 Parma
72045 El Paso
72046 England
72047 Barney
72047 Enola
72048 Ethel
72051 Fox
72051 Mozart
72052 Garner
72053 College Station
72053 Genevia
72055 Arkansas Post National Memor
72055 Gillett
72057 Grapevine
72058 Greenbrier
72058 Linder
72058 McGintytown
72058 Pleasant Valley
72058 Republican
72058 Springhill
72059 Gregory
72060 Griffithville
72061 Guy
72063 Hattieville
72063 Macedonia
72063 Old Hickory
72063 Robertsville
72064 Center Point
72064 Hazen
72064 Screeton
72065 East End
72065 Hensley
72066 Hickory Plns
72067 Greers Ferry
72067 Higden
72068 Higginson
72068 Higgson
72069 Blackton
72069 Holly Grove
72069 Lawrenceville
72069 Palmer
72069 Pine City
72069 Raymond
72070 Houston
72070 Oakgrove
72070 Stony Point
72072 Humnoke
72073 Humphrey
72074 Hunter
72075 Jacksonport
72076 Air Base
72076 Gravel Ridge
72076 Jacksonville
72076 JAX
72076 Little Rock AFB
72076 Lr AFB
72076 Lr Airforce Base
72076 LrAFB
72076 Macon
72078 Jacksonville
72079 Jefferson
72080 Gobblers Point
72080 Jerusalem
72080 Lost Corner
72081 Judsonia
72081 Providence
72081 Steprock
72082 Kenseh
72082 Kensen
72082 Kensett
72083 Keo
72084 Brush Creek
72084 Leola
72084 Lono
72084 Willow
72085 Letona
72086 Bayou Metro
72086 Furlow
72086 Lonoke
72086 Pettus
72086 Wattensaw
72087 Lonsdale
72087 Owensville
72088 Fairfield Bay
72088 Shirley
72089 Bryant
72099 Jacksonville
72099 Little Rck AFB
72099 Little Rock AFB
72099 Little Rock Air Force Base
72099 Lr AFB
72099 LrAFB
72101 Fair Oaks
72101 Grays
72101 Hillemann
72101 Howell
72101 Mc Crory
72101 McCrory
72101 Morton
72101 Pumpkin Bend
72101 Riverside
72101 Wiville
72102 Mc Rae
72102 McRae
72103 Mabelvale
72103 Royal Oak
72103 Shannon Hills
72104 Brown Springs
72104 Butterfield
72104 Durian
72104 Gifford
72104 Glen Rose
72104 Magnet Cove
72104 Malvern
72104 Perla
72104 Rockport
72104 Rolla
72104 Social Hill
72105 Jones Mill
72105 Malvern
72106 Lollie
72106 Mayflower
72107 Menifee
72108 Monroe
72110 Dabney
72110 Hickory Hill
72110 Lanty
72110 Lewisburg
72110 Morrilton
72110 Oppelo
72110 Riverview
72110 Sandtown
72110 Wesley Chapel
72111 Garland Springs
72111 Hammonsville
72111 Mount Vernon
72112 Algoa
72112 Auvergne
72112 Bengall
72112 Blackville
72112 Fitzgerald
72112 Ingleside
72112 Johnstown
72112 Murphys Corner
72112 New Pr
72112 Newport
72112 Remmel
72112 Weldon
72113 Maumelle
72113 Nlr
72113 No Little Rock
72113 North Little Rock
72114 Nlr
72114 No Little Rock
72114 North L R
72114 North Little Rock
72114 Veterans Admin Fac
72114 Veterans Admin. Fac.
72114 Veterans Administration Faci
72115 No Little Rock
72115 North Little Rock
72116 Nlr
72116 No Little Rock
72116 North L R
72116 North Little Rock
72116 North LR
72117 Baucum
72117 Booker
72117 Galloway
72117 Marche
72117 McAlmont
72117 Nlr
72117 No Little Rock
72117 North L R
72117 North Little Rock
72117 North LR
72117 Rixey
72118 Blue Hill
72118 Crystal Hill
72118 Jeffery
72118 Maumelle
72118 Nlr
72118 No Little Rock
72118 North L R
72118 North Little Rock
72118 North LR
72118 West Marche
72119 Nlr
72119 No Little Rock
72119 North Little Rock
72120 Nlr
72120 No Little Rock
72120 North Little Rock
72120 Sherwood
72121 Davenport
72121 Dewey
72121 Hickory Flat
72121 Little Red
72121 McJester
72121 Pangburn
72122 Paron
72123 Patterson
72124 Nlr
72124 No Little Rock
72124 North Little Rock
72124 Sherwood
72125 Perry
72126 Aplin
72126 Cherry Hill
72126 Deberrie
72126 Nimrod
72126 Perryville
72126 Thornburg
72126 Williams Junction
72127 Hill Creek
72127 Plumerville
72128 Poyen
72129 Buie
72129 Prattsville
72130 Prim
72130 Woodrow
72131 Enders
72131 Fairbanks
72131 Pearson
72131 Quitman
72132 Kearney
72132 Orion
72132 Redfield
72133 Reydell
72134 Aberdeen
72134 Lookout Store
72134 Preston Ferry
72134 Roe
72135 Natural Steps
72135 Northpoint
72135 Pinnacle
72135 Roland
72136 Gravel Hill
72136 Romance
72137 Rose Bud
72137 Sidon
72139 Russell
72140 Saint Charles
72141 Scotland
72142 Hamiter
72142 Kerr
72142 Scott
72142 Toltec
72143 Georgetown
72143 Searcy
72145 Searcy
72149 Searcy
72150 Cane Creek
72150 Center Grove
72150 Prague
72150 Sheridan
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Why is zip code data on an environmental science site?
In 2002 I was working on a project that correlated pollution and income for zip codes across the United States. Visitors told me the data files were very useful so I left them on the site and now update the postal information on a periodic basis even though the focus of the site is conservation.



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Coup leaders sell out Madagascar's forests, people
(01/27/2010) Madagascar is renowned for its biological richness. Located off the eastern coast of southern Africa and slightly larger than California, the island has an eclectic collection of plants and animals, more than 80 percent of which are found nowhere else in the world. But Madagascar's biological bounty has been under siege for nearly a year in the aftermath of a political crisis which saw its president chased into exile at gunpoint; a collapse in its civil service, including its park management system; and evaporation of donor funds which provide half the government's annual budget. In the absence of governance, organized gangs ransacked the island's biological treasures, including precious hardwoods and endangered lemurs from protected rainforests, and frightened away tourists, who provide a critical economic incentive for conservation. Now, as the coup leaders take an increasingly active role in the plunder as a means to finance an upcoming election they hope will legitimize their power grab, the question becomes whether Madagascar’s once highly regarded conservation system can be restored and maintained.


Rainforest conservation: a year in review
(12/27/2009) 2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. Lead by Brazil, which had the lowest extent of deforestation since at least the 1980s, global forest loss likely declined to its lowest level in more than a decade. Critical to the fall in deforestation was the global financial crisis, which dried up credit for forest-destroying activities and contributed to a crash in commodity prices, an underlying driver of deforestation.


Biggest private funder of Amazon conservation teams with Google and scientists to develop earth monitoring platform
(12/18/2009) The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the largest private funder of Amazon rainforest conservation, is playing an unheralded but integral role in the development of the Earth Engine platform, a system that combines the computing power of Google with advanced monitoring and analysis technologies developed by leading environmental scientists. The platform, which was officially unveiled at climate talks in in Copenhagen, promises to enable near real-time monitoring of the world's forests and carbon at high resolution at selected sites before COP-16 in Mexico.


Major international banks, shipping companies, and consumers play key role in Madagascar's logging crisis
(12/16/2009) In the midst of cyclone season, a 'dead' period for tourism to Madagascar's east coast, Vohémar, a sleepy town dominated by the vanilla trade, is abuzz. Vanilla prices have scarcely been lower, but the hotels are full and the port is busy. "This afternoon, it was like a 4 wheel drive show in front of the Direction Regionale des Eaux & Forets," one source wrote in an email on November 29th: "Many new 4x4, latest model, new plane at the airport, Chinese everywhere."


Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land
(12/09/2009) A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest law firms. The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C.-based forest conservation group, could boost the efforts of indigenous groups seeking compensation for preserving forest on their lands, effectively paving the way for large-scale indigenous-led conservation of the Amazon rainforest. Indigenous people control more than a quarter of the Brazilian Amazon.


Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade
(12/03/2009) Funds generated under a U.S. cap-and-trade or a broader U.N.-supported scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation ("REDD") could play a critical role in bringing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to a halt, reports a team writing in the journal Science. But the window of opportunity is short — Brazil has a two to three year window to take actions that would end Amazon deforestation within a decade.


Face-to-face with what may be the last of the world's smallest rhino, the Bornean rhinoceros
(12/01/2009) Nothing can really prepare a person for coming face-to-face with what may be the last of a species. I had known for a week that I would be fortunate enough to meet Tam. I'd heard stories of his gentle demeanor, discussed his current situation with experts, and read everything I could find about this surprising individual. But still, walking up to the pen where Tam stood contentedly pulling leaves from the hands of a local ranger, hearing him snort and whistle, watching as he rattled the bars with his blunted horn, I felt like I was walking into a place I wasn't meant to be. As though I was treading on his, Tam's space: entering into a cool deep forest where mud wallows and shadows still linger. This was Tam's world; or at least it should be.


Blogging wildlife rangers drive microconservation
(12/01/2009) Wildlife Direct, a group that promotes conservation through blogging by rangers and scientists, has won mongabay.com's "Innovation in Conservation Award" for 2009. The prize, which includes a cash donation and and prominent placement on the mongabay.com web site and newsletter for the month of December, is granted each year to an organization using an unconventional and highly effective approach to conserving forests and biodiversity.


Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments
(11/29/2009) A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing indigenous groups with a powerful tool for defending their land and culture, while enabling them to benefit from some 21st century advancements. Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a proposed scheme to mitigate climate change through forest conservation. The scheme—known as REDD for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation—will be a central topic of discussion at next month's climate talks in Copenhagen, but concerns remain that it could fail to deliver benefits to forest dwellers.


Guyana expedition finds biodiversity trove in area slated for oil and gas development, an interview with Robert Pickles
(11/29/2009) An expedition deep into Guyana's rainforest interior to find the endangered giant river otter—and collect their scat for genetic analysis—uncovered much more than even this endangered charismatic species. "Visiting the Rewa Head felt like we were walking in the footsteps of Wallace and Bates, seeing South America with its natural density of wild animals as it would have appeared 150 years ago," expedition member Robert Pickles said to Mongabay.com.


How rainforest shamans treat disease
(11/10/2009) Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease. A new paper, published in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, moves beyond the cataloging of plant use to examine the diseases and conditions treated in two indigenous villages deep in the rainforests of Suriname. The research, which based on data on more than 20,000 patient visits to traditional clinics over a four-year period, finds that shamans in the Trio tribe have a complex understanding of disease concepts, one that is comparable to Western medical science. Trio medicine men recognize at least 75 distinct disease conditions—ranging from common ailments like fever [këike] to specific and rare medical conditions like Bell's palsy [ehpijanejan] and distinguish between old (endemic) and new (introduced since contact with the outside world) illnesses. In an interview with mongabay.com, Lead author Christopher Herndon, currently a reproductive medicine physician at the University of California, San Francisco, says the findings are a testament to the under-appreciated healing prowess of indigenous shaman.


Saving the world's rarest wolf
(11/09/2009) Living on the roof of Africa, the Ethiopian wolf is one of the world's rarest carnivores, if not the rarest! Trapped on a few mountain islands rising over 4,000 meters above sea level on either/both sides of the Great Rift Valley, this unique canid has so far survived millennia of human-animal interactions in one of Africa's most densely populated rural lands. But the threat of climate change and a shifting agriculture frontier may require new conservation measures, according to Argentine-born Claudio Sillero, the world's foremost expert on the Ethiopian wolf, who has spent two decades championing this rare species.


Conservation and Carbon in Borneo’s Heart and Ours
(11/04/2009) 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 related to the Katingan Peat Conservation Project, as well as to give the group an opportunity to meet one another. The Katingan Project aims to create a forest-based carbon containment facility defined and guided by REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Destruction in the developing world) principles and methodology. Currently, nearly 25% of human-generated greenhouse gas emissions are caused by felling, burning and converting the world’s remaining primary forests. While areas surrounding the Katingan peat forest vividly express this statistic, Katingan is part of a growing strategy to reverse the trend. The Katingan project endeavors to transform conservation into a product that might offer strong competition against illegal logging and expansion of industrial agricultural plantations - whose practices cause enormous emissions of greenhouse gasses, as well as destroying biodiversity, depleting and polluting watersheds and corroding native cultures.


REDD in Colombia: using forests to finance conservation and communities in Colombia's Choco, a former war zone
(11/03/2009) 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 REDD? While much lip-service is paid to community involvement in REDD projects, many developers approach local communities as an afterthought. Priorities lie in measuring the carbon sequestered in a forest area, lining up financing, and making marketing arrangements, rather than working out what local people — the ones who are often cutting down trees — actually need in order to keep forests standing. This sets the stage for conflict, which reduces the likelihood that a project will successfully reduce deforestation for the 15-30 year life of a forest carbon project. Brodie Ferguson, a Stanford University-trained anthropologist whose work has focused on forced displacement of rural communities in conflict regions in Colombia, understands this well. Ferguson is working to establish a REDD project in an unlikely place: Colombia's Chocó, a region of diverse coastal ecosystems with some of the highest levels of endemism in the world that until just a few years ago was the domain of anti-government guerillas and right-wing death squads.


Forests versus oil palm plantations in Sumatra
(10/14/2009) A chainsaw chugs into life and tears into the trunk of a tree as tall as a two-story house. Petrol and man work together as the chain sets its teeth into the wood and edges its way through. The tree creaks, leans, and falls with a great crash to a backdrop of whoops and cheers. The sight and sound of tree felling is common in Indonesia, the country with the highest rate of deforestation in the world. The destruction of forests in this archipelago, draped like an emerald necklace across the equator, can be measured in hectares per minute. Today, though, is a good day for the conservationists.


Palm oil both a leading threat to orangutans and a key source of jobs in Sumatra
(09/24/2009) Of the world's two species of orangutan, a great ape that shares 96 percent of man's genetic makeup, the Sumatran orangutan is considerably more endangered than its cousin in Borneo. Today there are believed to be fewer than 7,000 Sumatran orangutans in the wild, a consequence of the wildlife trade, hunting, and accelerating destruction of their native forest habitat by loggers, small-scale farmers, and agribusiness. Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra is one of the last strongholds for the species, serving as a refuge among paper pulp concessions and rubber and oil palm plantations. While orangutans are relatively well protected in areas around tourist centers, they are affected by poorly regulated interactions with tourists, which have increased the risk of disease and resulted in high mortality rates among infants near tourist centers like Bukit Lawang. Further, orangutans that range outside the park or live in remote areas or on its margins face conflicts with developers, including loggers, who may or may not know about the existence of the park, and plantation workers, who may kill any orangutans they encounter in the fields. Working to improve the fate of orangutans that find their way into plantations and unprotected community areas is the Orangutan Information Center (OIC), a local NGO that collaborates with the Sumatran Orangutan Society (SOS).


Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist
(09/22/2009) Prince Charles of Great Britain has emerged as one of the world’s highest-profile promoters of a scheme that could finally put an end to destruction of tropical rainforests. The Prince’s Rainforest Project, launched in 2007, is promoting awareness of the role deforestation plays in climate change—it accounts for nearly a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions. The project also publicizes the multitude of benefits tropical forests provide, including maintenance of rainfall, biodiversity, and sustainable livelihoods for millions of people. But the initiative goes beyond merely raising awareness. Prince Charles is using his considerable influence to bring political and business leaders together to devise and support a plan to provide emergency funding to save rainforests. Tony Juniper, one of Britain’s best-known environmentalists and Special Adviser to the project, spoke about Prince Charles' efforts in an interview with mongabay.com.


Community engagement is key to saving the rarest zebra
(09/14/2009) Efforts to protect the world's largest and rarest species of zebra — Grévy's Zebra (Equus grevyi) — hinge on engaging communities to lead conservation in their region, says a Kenyan conservationist. Belinda Low, Executive Director of the Nairobi-based Grevy's Zebra Trust, says her group's programs, which employ members of local communities as scouts and conservation workers, are helping maintain dialog between communities while providing new opportunities for education and employment. Grevy's Zebra Trust is working with communities to plan livestock grazing so that it can be used as a tool to replenish the land, rather than degrade it


Sheikh goes from collector to conservationist in effort to save the world's rarest parrot
(09/10/2009) Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation (AWWP) is a private conservation and endangered species breeding-center located in the Arabian gulf State of Qatar. Founded by Sheikh Saoud Bin Mohammed Bin Ali Al-Thani, the facility focuses on work with threatened antelope and bird species. Although AWWP has had great success with numerous endangered animals, the Preserve is most noted for developing a captive breeding program for the Spix's Macaw, a species of parrot now extinct in the wild and once considered "the world's most endangered bird species." wzthpdc5kq


Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon
(09/08/2009) While you're browsing the mall for running shoes, the Amazon rainforest is probably the farthest thing from your mind. Perhaps it shouldn't be. The globalization of commodity supply chains has created links between consumer products and distant ecosystems like the Amazon. Shoes sold in downtown Manhattan may have been assembled in Vietnam using leather supplied from a Brazilian processor that subcontracted to a rancher in the Amazon. But while demand for these products is currently driving environmental degradation, this connection may also hold the key to slowing the destruction of Earth's largest rainforest.





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