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Listed numerically by zip code
Zip code | Name | Area Code(s)
66002 Atchison
66002 Potter
66006 Baldwin
66006 Baldwin City
66007 Basehor
66008 Bendena
66010 Blue Mound
66012 Basehor
66012 Bonner Springs
66012 Bonner Sprngs
66012 Lake of the Forest
66012 Lake Of the Fst
66013 Bucyrus
66014 Centerville
66015 Colony
66016 Cummings
66017 Denton
66018 De Soto
66019 Clearview City
66019 De Soto
66020 Easton
66021 Edgerton
66023 Effingham
66024 Elwood
66025 Eudora
66026 Fontana
66027 Fort Leavenworth
66027 Fort Leavnwrth
66030 Gardner
66031 New Century
66032 Garnett
66033 Greeley
66035 Highland
66036 Hillsdale
66039 Kincaid
66040 Lacygne
66040 Linn Valley
66041 Huron
66041 Lancaster
66042 Lane
66043 Lansing
66043 Leavenworth
66044 Laurence
66044 Lawrence
66045 Laurence
66045 Lawrence
66045 University of Kansas
66046 Laurence
66046 Lawrence
66047 Laurence
66047 Lawrence
66047 Lwrnce
66048 Leavenworth
66049 Laurence
66049 Lawrence
66050 Lecompton
66051 Olathe
66052 Linwood
66053 Louisburg
66054 Mc Louth
66056 Mound City
66058 Muscotah
66060 Nortonville
66061 Olathe
66062 Lenexa
66062 Olathe
66062 Overland Park
66063 Olathe
66064 Osawatomie
66066 Oskaloosa
66067 Centropolis
66067 Ottawa
66070 Ozawkie
66071 Paola
66072 Parker
66073 Perry
66075 Pleasanton
66076 Pomona
66077 Potter
66078 Princeton
66079 Rantoul
66080 Richmond
66083 Spring Hill
66085 Overland Park
66085 Stilwell
66086 Tonganoxie
66087 Severance
66087 Troy
66088 Valley Falls
66090 Wathena
66091 Welda
66092 Wellsville
66093 Westphalia
66094 White Cloud
66095 Williamsburg
66097 Winchester
66101 Kansas City
66102 Kansas City
66103 Kansas City
66103 Rosedale
66104 Kansas City
66105 Kansas City
66106 Kansas City
66109 Kansas City
66110 Kansas City
66111 Edwardsville
66111 Kansas City
66112 Kansas City
66113 Edwardsville
66113 Kansas City
66115 Kansas City
66117 Kansas City
66118 Kansas City
66119 Kansas City
66160 K U Med Center
66160 Kansas City
66160 Kansas University Med Center
66201 Mission
66201 Overland Park
66201 Shawnee Mission
66201 Sm
66202 Countryside
66202 Merriam
66202 Mission
66202 Overland
66202 Overland Park
66202 Prairie Village
66202 Shawnee Mission
66202 Sm
66203 Merriam
66203 Op
66203 Overland
66203 Overland Park
66203 Shawnee
66203 Shawnee Mission
66203 Sm
66204 Merriam
66204 Overland
66204 Overland Park
66204 Prairie Village
66204 Shawnee Mission
66204 Sm
66205 Fairway
66205 Mission
66205 Mission Woods
66205 Roeland Park
66205 Shawnee Mission
66205 Sm
66205 Westwood
66205 Westwood Hills
66205 Westwood Hls
66206 Leawood
66206 Overland
66206 Overland Park
66206 Prairie Village
66206 Shawnee Mission
66206 Sm
66207 Leawood
66207 Overland
66207 Overland Park
66207 Prairie Village
66207 Shawnee Mission
66207 Sm
66208 Mission Hills
66208 Overland
66208 Overland Park
66208 Prairie Village
66208 Shawnee Mission
66208 Sm
66209 Leawood
66209 Overland
66209 Overland Park
66209 Shawnee Mission
66209 Sm
66210 Lenexa
66210 Overland
66210 Overland Park
66210 Shawnee Mission
66210 Sm
66211 Leawood
66211 Overland
66211 Overland Park
66211 Shawnee Mission
66211 Sm
66212 Overland
66212 Overland Park
66212 Shawnee Mission
66213 Lenexa
66213 Overland
66213 Overland Park
66213 Shawnee Mission
66213 Sm
66214 Lenexa
66214 Overland
66214 Overland Park
66214 Shawnee
66214 Shawnee Mission
66214 Sm
66215 Lenexa
66215 Overland
66215 Overland Park
66215 Shawnee Mission
66215 Sm
66216 Lenexa
66216 Shawnee
66216 Shawnee Mission
66216 Sm
66217 Lake Quivira
66217 Lenexa
66217 Quivira
66217 Shawnee
66217 Shawnee Mission
66217 Sm
66218 Shawnee
66218 Shawnee Mission
66218 Sm
66219 Lenexa
66219 Shawnee
66219 Shawnee Mission
66219 Sm
66220 Lenexa
66220 Shawnee
66220 Shawnee Mission
66220 Sm
66221 Overland
66221 Overland Park
66221 Shawnee Mission
66221 Sm
66221 Stanley
66222 Mission
66222 Shawnee Mission
66222 Sm
66223 Overland
66223 Overland Park
66223 Shawnee Mission
66223 Sm
66223 Stanley
66224 Leawood
66224 Overland
66224 Overland Park
66224 Shawnee Mission
66224 Sm
66224 Stanley
66225 Overland
66225 Overland Park
66225 Shawnee Mission
66225 Sm
66226 Shawnee
66226 Shawnee Mission
66226 Sm
66227 Lenexa
66227 Shawnee
66227 Shawnee Mission
66227 Sm
66250 J C Penney Co
66250 Shawnee Mission
66250 Sm
66251 Lenexa
66251 Op
66251 Overland Park
66251 Shawnee Mission
66251 Sprint Corporation
66276 J C Penney Co
66276 Shawnee Mission
66276 Sm
66282 Overland
66282 Overland Park
66282 Shawnee Mission
66282 Sm
66283 Overland Park
66283 Shawnee Mission
66283 Sm
66283 Stanley
66285 Lenexa
66285 Shawnee Mission
66285 Sm
66286 Lenexa
66286 Shawnee
66286 Shawnee Mission
66401 Alma
66402 Auburn
66403 Axtell
66404 Baileyville
66406 Beattie
66407 Belvue
66408 Bern
66409 Berryton
66411 Blue Rapids
66412 Bremen
66413 Burlingame
66414 Carbondale
66415 Centralia
66416 Circleville
66417 Corning
66418 Delia
66419 Denison
66420 Dover
66422 Emmett
66423 Eskridge
66424 Everest
66425 Fairview
66426 Fostoria
66426 Westmoreland
66427 Frankfort
66427 Lillis
66428 Goff
66429 Grantville
66431 Harveyville
66432 Havensville
66434 Hamlin
66434 Hiawatha
66434 Reserve
66434 Willis
66436 Holton
66438 Home
66439 Horton
66440 Hoyt
66441 Junction City
66442 Fort Riley
66442 Junction City
66449 Leonardville
66451 Lyndon
66501 Alma
66501 Mc Farland
66501 McFarland
66502 Manhattan
66503 Manhattan
66505 Manhattan
66506 Manhattan
66507 Maple Hill
66508 Herkimer
66508 Marysville
66509 Mayetta
66510 Melvern
66512 Meriden
66514 Milford
66515 Morrill
66516 Netawaka
66517 Ogden
66518 Oketo
66520 Olsburg
66521 Duluth
66521 Onaga
66521 Wheaton
66522 Oneida
66523 Osage City
66524 Overbrook
66526 Paxico
66527 Powhattan
66528 Quenemo
66531 Riley
66532 Leona
66532 Robinson
66533 Rossville
66534 Sabetha
66535 Saint George
66536 Saint Marys
66537 Scranton
66538 Kelly
66538 Saint Benedict
66538 Seneca
66539 Silver Lake
66540 Soldier
66541 Summerfield
66542 Tecumseh
66543 Vassar
66544 Vermillion
66544 Vliets
66546 Wakarusa
66547 Louisville
66547 Louisvl
66547 Louisvle
66547 Wamego
66548 Waterville
66549 Blaine
66549 Westmoreland
66550 Wetmore
66552 Whiting
66554 Randolph
66601 Topeka
66603 Topeka
66604 Topeka
66605 Topeka
66606 Topeka
66607 Topeka
66608 Topeka
66609 Topeka
66610 Topeka
66611 Topeka
66612 Topeka
66614 Topeka
66615 Topeka
66616 Topeka
66617 Topeka
66618 Topeka
66619 Topeka
66620 Ks State Bd of Health
66620 Topeka
66621 Topeka
66622 Topeka
66622 V A Hospital
66624 Material Distribution Center
66624 Topeka
66625 Ks Dept of Revenue Taxation
66625 Topeka
66626 Ks Dept of Revenue Vehicles
66626 Topeka
66628 Burlington Northern Santa Fe
66628 Topeka
66629 Blue Cross
66629 Topeka
66636 Security Benefit Life
66636 Topeka
66647 Topeka
66667 Topeka
66675 Topeka
66683 Topeka
66699 Kansas Income Tax
66699 Topeka
66701 Devon
66701 Fort Scott
66701 Hiattville
66710 Altoona
66710 Guilford
66711 Arcadia
66711 Cato
66711 Coalvale
66711 Drywood
66711 Gross
66712 Arma
66713 Baxter Springs
66713 Big Elk
66713 Lowell
66713 Sims
66714 Benedict
66714 Roper
66716 Bronson
66716 Xenia
66717 Buffalo
66720 Austin
66720 Chanute
66720 Earlton
66720 Petrolia
66724 Cherokee
66725 Columbus
66725 Hallowell
66725 Melrose
66725 Neutral
66725 Quaker
66725 Sherwin
66725 Stippville
66728 Crestline
66732 Elsmore
66733 Erie
66734 Farlington
66735 Franklin
66736 Buxton
66736 Coyville
66736 Fredonia
66736 Lafontaine
66738 Barnesville
66738 Fulton
66739 Badger
66739 Galena
66739 Lowell
66739 Spring Grove
66740 Galesburg
66741 Arcadia
66741 Garland
66742 Gas
66743 Beulah
66743 Brazilton
66743 Edison
66743 Girard
66743 Green Bush
66743 Greenbush
66743 Ringo
66746 Hepler
66748 Humboldt
66749 Bassett
66749 Carlyle
66749 Iola
66751 La Harpe
66753 Mc Cune
66753 McCune
66753 Monmouth
66753 Strauss
66754 Harding
66754 Mapleton
66755 Moran
66756 Barber
66756 Cockerill
66756 Croweburg
66756 Curranville
66756 Mulberry
66757 Buffville
66757 Hilford
66757 Neodesha
66758 Carmean
66758 Neosho Falls
66759 New Albany
66760 Opolis
66761 Piqua
66762 Capaldo
66762 Pittsburg
66762 Radley
66763 Frontenac
66763 Pittsburg
66767 Mantey
66767 Prescott
66769 Redfield
66770 Riverton
66771 Saint Paul
66772 Savonburg
66773 Carona
66773 Roseland
66773 Scammon
66773 Skidmore
66775 Stark
66776 Morehead
66776 Thayer
66777 Toronto
66778 Melrose
66778 Treece
66779 Uniontown
66780 Porterville
66780 Walnut
66781 Lawton
66781 Weir
66782 Mineral
66782 West Mineral
66783 Durand
66783 Rose
66783 Vernon
66783 Yates Center
66801 Emporia
66830 Admire
66833 Allen
66833 Bushong
66834 Alta Vista
66835 Americus
66838 Burdick
66839 Burlington
66839 New Strawn
66840 Burns
66842 Cassoday
66843 Cedar Point
66843 Clements
66845 Cottonwd Falls
66845 Cottonwood Falls
66846 Council Grove
66846 Dunlap
66849 Dwight
66850 Elmdale
66851 Florence
66852 Gridley
66853 Hamilton
66854 Hartford
66855 Lamont
66855 Madison
66856 Lebo
66857 Le Roy
66858 Antelope
66858 Lincolnville
66859 Lost Springs
66860 Madison
66861 Marion
66862 Cassoday
66862 Matfield Green
66862 Matfield Grn
66863 Neal
66864 Neosho Rapids
66865 Olpe
66866 Peabody
66868 Reading
66869 Strong City
66870 Virgil
66871 Waverly
66872 White City
66873 Council Grove
66873 Wilsey
66901 Ames
66901 Concordia
66901 Rice
66930 Agenda
66932 Athol
66933 Barnes
66935 Belleville
66936 Burr Oak
66937 Clifton
66938 Clyde
66939 Courtland
66940 Cuba
66941 Esbon
66942 Formoso
66943 Greenleaf
66944 Haddam
66945 Hanover
66946 Hollenberg
66948 Jamestown
66949 Ionia
66949 Jewell
66951 Kensington
66952 Bellaire
66952 Lebanon
66953 Linn
66955 Mahaska
66956 Mankato
66958 Morrowville
66959 Munden
66960 Narka
66961 Norway
66962 Palmer
66963 Randall
66964 Republic
66966 Scandia
66967 Harlan
66967 Smith Center
66968 Washington
66970 Webber
67001 Andale
67002 Andover
67003 Anthony
67004 Argonia
67005 Arkansas City
67005 Parkerfield
67005 Silverdale
67008 Atlanta
67009 Attica
67010 Augusta
67012 Beaumont
67013 Belle Plaine
67016 Bentley
67017 Benton
67018 Bluff City
67019 Burden
67020 Burrton
67021 Byers
67022 Caldwell
67022 Corbin
67023 Cambridge
67024 Cedar Vale
67024 Hewins
67025 Cheney
67026 Clearwater
67028 Belvidere
67028 Coats
67029 Coldwater
67030 Colwich
67031 Conway Springs
67035 Cunningham
67035 Penalosa
67036 Danville
67037 Derby
67038 Dexter
67039 Douglass
67041 Elbing
67042 El Dorado
67045 Eureka
67045 Reece
67047 Fall River
67049 Freeport
67050 Garden Plain
67051 Ashton
67051 Geuda Springs
67052 Goddard
67053 Goessel
67054 Greensburg
67055 Greenwich
67056 Halstead
67057 Hardtner
67058 Duquoin
67058 Harper
67059 Haviland
67059 Trousdale
67060 Haysville
67061 Corwin
67061 Hazelton
67062 Hesston
67063 Hillsboro
67065 Isabel
67066 Iuka
67067 Kechi
67068 Belmont
67068 Kingman
67070 Kiowa
67071 Lake City
67071 Medicine Lodge
67072 Latham
67073 Lehigh
67074 Leon
67101 Maize
67102 Maple City
67103 Mayfield
67104 Medicine Lodge
67105 Milan
67106 Milton
67107 Moundridge
67108 Mount Hope
67109 Mullinville
67110 Mulvane
67111 Murdock
67112 Nashville
67114 Newton
67114 Zimmerdale
67117 Newton
67117 North Newton
67118 Norwich
67119 Oxford
67119 Sieboldt
67120 Peck
67122 Piedmont
67123 Potwin
67124 Cullison
67124 Pratt
67127 Protection
67131 Rock
67132 Rosalia
67133 Rose Hill
67133 Rosehill
67134 Sawyer
67135 Sedgwick
67137 Climax
67137 Severy
67138 Sharon
67140 Hunnewell
67140 South Haven
67142 Rago
67142 Spivey
67143 Sun City
67144 Towanda
67146 Udall
67147 Park City
67147 Valley Center
67147 Wichita
67149 Viola
67150 Anthony
67150 Waldron
67151 Walton
67152 Riverdale
67152 Wellington
67154 Whitewater
67155 Wilmore
67156 New Salem
67156 Winfield
67159 Zenda
67201 Wichita
67202 Wichita
67203 Wichita
67204 North Wichita
67204 Park City
67204 Wichita
67205 Wichita
67206 Eastborough
67206 Wichita
67207 Eastborough
67207 Wichita
67208 Eastborough
67208 Wichita
67209 Wichita
67210 Planeview
67210 Wichita
67211 Wichita
67212 Wichita
67213 Wichita
67214 Wichita
67215 Oatville
67215 Schulte
67215 Wichita
67216 Oaklawn
67216 Wichita
67217 Wichita
67218 Wichita
67219 Park City
67219 Wichita
67220 Bel Aire
67220 Wichita
67221 McConnell AFB
67221 Wichita
67223 Wichita
67226 Bel Aire
67226 Comotara
67226 Wichita
67227 Wichita
67228 Wichita
67230 Wichita
67232 Wichita
67235 Wichita
67260 Wichita
67260 Wichita State University
67275 Wichita
67276 USPS Offical Mail
67276 Wichita
67277 Wichita
67278 Wichita
67301 Independence
67330 Altamont
67332 Bartlett
67333 Caney
67334 Chautauqua
67335 Cherryvale
67336 Chetopa
67337 Angola
67337 Coffeyville
67340 Dearing
67341 Dennis
67342 Edna
67344 Elk City
67345 Elk Falls
67346 Grenola
67347 Havana
67349 Howard
67351 Liberty
67352 Longton
67353 Moline
67354 Mound Valley
67355 Niotaze
67356 Labette
67356 Oswego
67357 Parsons
67360 Peru
67361 Sedan
67363 Sycamore
67364 Tyro
67401 Bavaria
67401 Salina
67402 Salina
67410 Abilene
67410 Industry
67410 Manchester
67416 Assaria
67416 Mentor
67417 Aurora
67418 Barnard
67420 Beloit
67420 Scottsville
67422 Bennington
67423 Beverly
67425 Brookville
67427 Bushton
67428 Canton
67430 Cawker City
67431 Chapman
67432 Clay Center
67432 Oakhill
67436 Delphos
67437 Downs
67438 Durham
67439 Ellsworth
67441 Enterprise
67442 Falun
67443 Galva
67444 Geneseo
67445 Glasco
67446 Glen Elder
67447 Green
67448 Carlton
67448 Gypsum
67449 Delavan
67449 Herington
67449 Latimer
67450 Holyrood
67451 Hope
67451 Navarre
67452 Hunter
67454 Kanopolis
67455 Lincoln
67455 Westfall
67456 Lindsborg
67456 Smolan
67457 Little River
67458 Longford
67459 Lorraine
67460 Conway
67460 Mc Pherson
67460 McPherson
67464 Marquette
67466 Miltonvale
67467 Ada
67467 Minneapolis
67467 Wells
67468 Morganville
67470 New Cambria
67473 Osborne
67474 Portis
67475 Ramona
67476 Roxbury
67478 Simpson
67480 Solomon
67481 Sylvan Grove
67482 Talmage
67483 Ramona
67483 Tampa
67484 Culver
67484 Tescott
67485 Tipton
67487 Wakefield
67490 Wilson
67491 Windom
67492 Woodbine
67501 Hutchinson
67502 Hutchinson
67502 Medora
67504 Hutchinson
67505 Hutchinson
67505 So Hutchinson
67505 South Hutchinson
67510 Abbyville
67511 Albert
67512 Alden
67513 Alexander
67514 Arlington
67515 Arnold
67516 Bazine
67518 Beeler
67519 Belpre
67520 Bison
67521 Brownell
67522 Buhler
67523 Burdett
67524 Chase
67525 Beaver
67525 Claflin
67525 Odin
67526 Ellinwood
67529 Garfield
67530 Dundee
67530 Great Bend
67530 Heizer
67543 Haven
67544 Hoisington
67544 Susank
67545 Hudson
67546 Inman
67547 Kinsley
67548 La Crosse
67550 Fort Larned National History
67550 Larned
67550 Radium
67552 Fellsburg
67552 Lewis
67553 La Crosse
67553 Liebenthal
67554 Lyons
67556 Mc Cracken
67557 Macksville
67559 Nekoma
67560 Ness City
67561 Nickerson
67563 Offerle
67564 Olmitz
67565 Galatia
67565 Otis
67566 Partridge
67567 Pawnee Rock
67568 Plevna
67570 Pretty Pr
67570 Pretty Praire
67570 Pretty Prairie
67572 Ransom
67573 Raymond
67574 Rozel
67575 Rush Center
67575 Timken
67576 Saint John
67576 Seward
67578 Stafford
67579 Sterling
67581 Sylvia
67583 Langdon
67583 Preston
67583 Turon
67584 Arnold
67584 Utica
67585 Yoder
67601 Antonino
67601 Hays
67621 Agra
67622 Almena
67623 Alton
67625 Bogue
67626 Bunker Hill
67627 Catharine
67628 Cedar
67629 Clayton
67631 Collyer
67632 Damar
67634 Dorrance
67635 Dresden
67637 Ellis
67638 Gaylord
67639 Glade
67640 Gorham
67642 Hill City
67643 Jennings
67644 Kirwin
67645 Densmore
67645 Edmond
67645 Lenora
67645 New Almelo
67646 Logan
67647 Long Island
67648 Lucas
67649 Luray
67650 Morland
67651 Natoma
67653 Norcatur
67654 Norton
67656 Ogallah
67657 Palco
67658 Paradise
67659 Penokee
67660 Pfeifer
67661 Phillipsburg
67661 Stuttgart
67663 Codell
67663 Plainville
67663 Zurich
67664 Prairie View
67665 Russell
67667 Hays
67667 Schoenchen
67669 Stockton
67671 Victoria
67672 Wa Keeney
67672 Wakeeney
67673 Waldo
67674 Walker
67675 Woodston
67701 Colby
67730 Atwood
67731 Bird City
67732 Brewster
67733 Edson
67734 Gem
67735 Goodland
67736 Gove
67737 Grainfield
67738 Grinnell
67739 Herndon
67740 Hoxie
67740 Studley
67741 Kanorado
67743 Levant
67744 Ludell
67745 Mc Donald
67745 McDonald
67747 Monument
67747 Winona
67748 Oakley
67749 Oberlin
67751 Park
67752 Quinter
67753 Menlo
67753 Rexford
67756 Saint Francis
67756 Wheeler
67757 Selden
67758 Sharon Springs
67761 Wallace
67762 Weskan
67764 Monument
67764 Russell Springs
67764 Winona
67801 Dodge City
67801 Fort Dodge
67831 Ashland
67834 Bucklin
67835 Cimarron
67835 Kalvesta
67836 Coolidge
67837 Copeland
67838 Deerfield
67839 Dighton
67839 Shields
67840 Englewood
67841 Ensign
67842 Ford
67842 Kingsdown
67843 Dodge City
67843 Fort Dodge
67844 Fowler
67846 Garden City
67849 Hanston
67850 Healy
67851 Holcomb
67853 Ingalls
67854 Jetmore
67855 Big Bow
67855 Johnson
67857 Kendall
67859 Kismet
67860 Lakin
67861 Leoti
67861 Selkirk
67862 Manter
67863 Marienthal
67863 Modoc
67864 Meade
67865 Bloom
67865 Minneola
67867 Montezuma
67868 Garden City
67868 Pierceville
67869 Plains
67870 Satanta
67871 Friend
67871 Scott City
67876 Spearville
67877 Sublette
67878 Syracuse
67879 Tribune
67880 Ulysses
67882 Wright
67901 Liberal
67905 Liberal
67950 Elkhart
67951 Hugoton
67952 Moscow
67953 Richfield
67954 Rolla
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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(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."
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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.
Activists target Brazil's largest driver of deforestation: cattle ranching
(09/08/2009) Perhaps unexpectedly for a group with roots in confrontational activism, Amigos da Terra - Amazônia Brasileira is calling for a rather pragmatic approach to address to cattle ranching, the largest driver of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. The solution, says Roberto Smeraldi, founder and director of Amigos da Terra, involves improving the productivity of cattle ranching, thereby allowing forest to recover without sacrificing jobs or income; establishing a moratorium on new clearing; and recognizing the economic values of maintaining the ecological functions of Earth's largest rainforest.
Power, profit, and pollution: dams and the uncertain future of Sarawak
(09/03/2009) Sarawak, land of mystery, legend, and remote upriver tribes. Paradise of lush rainforest and colossal bat-filled caves. Home to unique and bizarre wildlife including flying lemurs, bearcats, orang-utans and rat-eating plants. Center of heavy industry and powerhouse of Southeast Asia. Come again? This jarring image could be the future of Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, should government plans for a complex of massive hydroelectric dams comes to fruition. The plan, which calls for a network of 12 hydroelectric dams to be built across Sarawak's rainforests by 2020, is proceeding despite strong opposition from Sarawak's citizens, environmental groups, and indigenous human rights organizations. By 2037, as many as 51 dams could be constructed.
Saving Africa's 'unicorn', the okapi
(09/02/2009) The giraffe is one of Africa's most recognizable animals, but its shy and elusive forest cousin, the okapi, was so little known that until just over a century ago the western world believed it was a mythical beast, an African unicorn. Today, a shroud of mystery still envelops the okapi, an animal that looks like a cross between a zebra, a donkey, and a giraffe. But what is known is cause for concern. Its habitat, long protected by its remoteness, was the site of horrific civil strife, with disease, famine, and conflict claiming untold numbers of Congolese over the past decade. Now, as a semblance of peace has settled over Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the okapi's prospects have further dimmed, for its home is increasingly seen as a rich source of timber, minerals, and meat to help the war-torn country rebuild. In an effort to ensure that the okapi does not become a victim of economic recovery, the Okapi Conservation Project (OCP) is working to protect the okapi and its habitat. Founded by John Lukas in 1987, well before the conflict, OCP today manages the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a 13,700-square-kilometer tract of wilderness in the Ituri Forest of northeastern DRC.
Mining and biodiversity offsets in Madagascar: Conservation or 'Conservation Opportunities?'
(08/30/2009) Rio Tinto's ilmenite mine in southeastern Madagascar is among the largest on the planet. At peak capacity, its owners say, it could produce as much as 2 million tons of the stuff—worth roughly $100 a ton—each year, to be shipped off and smelted abroad. What's left of it after refining—some 60 percent of the ore that arrives from Madagascar—will be sold for $2000 a ton as titanium dioxide, a pigment used in everything from white paint and tennis court lines to sunscreen and toothpaste. At current levels of demand, the Fort Dauphin mine will provide 9 percent of the world supply over the next 40 years, amounting to more than $60 billion of titanium dioxide. Even that is a conservative estimate: demand for ilmenite has been growing at 3-5 percent annually, with major mines slated to close in coming years and few untapped sources known worldwide.
Solar powered conservation
(08/25/2009) Electricity can be a difficult commodity to procure in the remote areas where conservationists often work. Typically field researchers and wildlife rangers rely on gas-powered generators, which require imported fuel, often produce noxious fumes and disruptive noise, and can be costly to maintain. A better option, especially in sun-drenched parts of the world, is solar. Clean and silent, with no need for supplemental fuel, solar seems like an ideal fit for conservation work except for one major drawback: cost. But Stephen Gold – Solar and Technology Manager for Wildlife Conservation Network has been working to overcome that obstacle.
World's rarest camel survived nuclear tests but today threatened by hunger for its meat
(08/24/2009) Camels are among the most recognizable animals on the planet, yet few realize that wild populations are at a high risk of extinction. Of the world's two camel species, the Dromedary camel, characterized by a single hump, has already gone extinct in the wild. The second species, the two-humped Bactrian camel, was on a similar trajectory until very recently, but still less than 1,000 of the world's 1.4 million Bactrians are wild. The abundance of domesticated Bactrian camels relative to wild camels doesn’t address the question of whether it matters if another species of camels goes extinct. John Hare, founder and director of the Wild Camel Protection Foundation, argues that it does. Hare says the world will be a poorer place if wild Bactrian camels are allowed to follow their cousins into the sunset.
Rehabilitation not enough to solve orangutan crisis in Indonesia
(08/20/2009) A baby orangutan ambles across the grass at the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation’s Nyaru Menteng rehabilitation center in Central Kalimantan, in the heart of Indonesian Borneo. The ape pauses, picks up a stick and makes his way over to a plastic log, lined with small holes. Breaking the stick in two, he pokes one end into a hole in an effort to extract honey that has been deposited by a conservation worker. His expression shows the tool’s use has been fruitful. But he is not alone. To his right another orangutan has turned half a coconut shell into a helmet, two others wrestle on the lawn, and another youngster scales a papaya tree. There are dozens of orangutans, all of which are about the same age. Just outside the compound, dozens of younger orangutans are getting climbing lessons from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) staff, while still younger orangutans are being fed milk from bottles in a nearby nursery. Still more orangutans—teenagers and adults—can be found on “Orangutan Island” beyond the center’s main grounds. Meanwhile several recently wild orangutans sit in cages. This is a waiting game. BOS hopes to eventually release all of these orangutans back into their natural habitat—the majestic rainforests and swampy peatlands of Central Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. But for many, this is a fate that may never be realized.
World's rarest tree kangaroo gets help from those who once hunted it
(08/17/2009) The world's rarest tree kangaroo is in the midst of a comeback in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. On the brink of extinction in 2001 with a population estimated at fewer than 100 individuals, Scott's Tree Kangaroo (Dendrolagus scottae), or the tenkile, is recovering, thanks to the efforts of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance to motivate local communities to reduce hunting and respect critical forest habitat. The tenkile Conservation Alliance, led by Australians Jim and Jean Thomas, works to provide alternative sources of protein and raise environmental awareness among local communities.
Economic crisis threatens conservation programs and endangered species, an interview with Paula Kahumbu of WildlifeDirect
(08/17/2009) Founded in 2004 by legendary conservationist Richard Leakey, WildlifeDirect is an innovative member of the conservation community. WildlifeDirect is really a meta-organization: it gathers together hundreds of conservation initiatives who blog regularly about the trials and joys of practicing on-the-ground conservation. From stories of gorillas reintroduced in the wild to tracking elephants in the Okavango Delta to saving sea turtles in Sumatra, WildlifeDirect provides the unique experience of actually hearing directly from scientists and conservationists worldwide.
Are we on the brink of saving rainforests?
(07/22/2009) Until now saving rainforests seemed like an impossible mission. But the world is now warming to the idea that a proposed solution to help address climate change could offer a new way to unlock the value of forest without cutting it down.Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, members of the Surui tribe are developing a scheme that will reward them for protecting their rainforest home from encroachment by ranchers and illegal loggers. The project, initiated by the Surui themselves, will bring jobs as park guards and deliver health clinics, computers, and schools that will help youths retain traditional knowledge and cultural ties to the forest. Surprisingly, the states of California, Wisconsin and Illinois may finance the endeavor as part of their climate change mitigation programs.
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