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Conservation in Amazon

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Brazil: Indigenous Group Granted Largest Tropical Forest ...  -  03 Nov 2006
Forest NewsWatch.com (subscription),...acres of Amazon forestland will be sustainably managed, balancing the need for income from Brazil nut harvesting with biodiversity conservation and water and ...

Women’s Institutes  -  03 Nov 2006
Hexham Courant,The speaker Mr Raeburn showed slides of a trip to Peru to visit a friend’s daughter who was carrying out conservation work in the Amazon rainforest. ...

New hand to steer Natural Sciences  -  Nov 2, 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer,...on its payroll go everywhere from the Arctic tundra to the Amazon to study ... After earning his Ph.D., he decided to devote his career to conservation and thought ...

Chicago's Finest  -  Nov 2, 2006
Aurora Beacon News,S. Lake Shore Drive promotes the enjoyment, appreciation and conservation of aquatic ... the Aquarium, Oceanarium, Wild Reef, Caribbean Reef, Amazon Rising and ...

Amazon deforestation rate plunges 41 percent  -  Oct 26, 2006
Mongabay.com...impact in the Amazon right now, for three reasons," said William F. Laurance, president of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and a ...

Study: Some forest roads bad for wildlife  -  Oct 31, 2006
Science Daily (press release)...the future of world timber markets suggests that forest conservation efforts in ... Small-scale Logging Leads To Clear-cutting In Brazilian Amazon (August 16, 2006 ...

Global warming could cause catastrophic die-off of Amazon ...  -  Oct 22, 2006
Mongabay.comAmazon conservation efforts must come before its too late to save world's largest rainforest. Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com. An interview ...

'Where Our Ancestors Once Tread'  -  Oct 30, 2006
Indian Country Today,Like many other Amazon peoples, the Yanesha began regular contact with outsiders ... Instituto del Bien Comun, an organization dedicated to conservation of nature ...

Has the world finally woken up to climate change?  -  Oct 30, 2006
Guardian Unlimited,Conservation and animal welfare, already established causes, came together with hippy ... the planet - acid rain, the deforestation of the Amazon, the discovery in ...

Brazil will not 'sell' Amazon  -  Oct 18, 2006
Gulf News,...international support to help preserve the Amazon, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest. Negotiators will present the new conservation plan at a ...

Brazil declares Amazon not for sale  -  Oct 18, 2006
Carbon Positive,Environment minister said the Amazon was “not for sale� and the country had its own plan for Amazon conservation which it would table at the annual UN ...

Running on Hype The Real Scoop on Biofuels  -  Nov 1, 2006
CounterPunch,...and soy plantations continue to encourage deforestation, both in the Amazon and in ... no one has figured out how to make a fortune on conservation and efficiency. ...

Future of conservation pondered in Oct. 26 lecture  -  Oct 20, 2006
University of Wisconsin-Madison University Communications,...the University of Florida, where he directed the Tropical Conservation and Development ... Brazil, where he designed and implemented the foundation's Amazon program ...

First-grader meets Animal Planet’s Jeff Corwin  -  Oct 31, 2006
Canton Repository (subscription),...also encouraged conservation and appreciation of North America's native animals. "The greatest adventure you will ever have, beyond going to the Amazon, is in ...

Class Is In Session  -  Oct 24, 2006
Conservation International Frontlines,...for a group of graduate students studying deep in the Brazilian Amazon. ... Conservation International (CI) scientists working in Brazil will teach and advise ...

EarthTalk: Debt for Nature Swaps  -  Oct 25, 2006
Kansas City infoZine,Congo River Basin, the world's second largest tropical forest after the Amazon. ... that country's establishment of tree planting and forest conservation programs. ...

Beleaguered bat deserves second look  -  Oct 29, 2006
Baltimore Sun,...birds, or Candiru, a type of tiny vampire fish that lives in the Amazon. ... Visit the Web site of Bat Conservation International at batcon.org, or contact Tom ...

As development closes in, river's health at issue  -  Oct 20, 2006
Boston Globe,...nations and several conservation groups have undertaken a nine-month census of dolphins living along more than 1,200 miles of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers, as ...

Laureates: Farming renders no harm to Brazil  -  Oct 21, 2006
DesMoinesRegister.com,..."It is not economical to cut down the Amazon forest and ... Conservation International, a Washington-based group, is working to get farmers to comply with the set ...

TV host Corwin takes audience on wild side  -  Oct 26, 2006
Centre Daily Times,...as he does on his TV shows -- to stress the message of conservation. ... poisonous eastern Mongoose snakes, giant crocodiles, six-foot long Amazon River otters ...

Macaws face possible extinction  -  Oct 24, 2006
Science Daily (press release)Fragmentation Linked To Stress In Birds (May 31, 2001) -- Amazon forest birds ... wildlife health experts from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS ...

Brazil tells foreigners stay out of Amazon  -  Oct 17, 2006
Reuters..."Such proposals are ignorant of the realities of the Amazon rainforest," the ... an appropriate way for developed countries to support the conservation of tropical ...

Bush Free Trade Plan Puts Amazon up for Grabs  -  Oct 12, 2006
BushGreenwatch,...less than one percent of the world's land area, the upper Amazon basin in ... Conservation advocates remind us that every vote will count – just as it did two ...

There's magic between plants, food and beauty  -  Oct 28, 2006
Oakland Tribune,The keynote speaker is Mark Plotkin, author of "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice." Plotkin serves as president of the Amazon Conservation Team, which protects ...

Oregon Zoo Experts Lead Amazon And Kenya Tours -Info Session Oct ...  -  Oct 12, 2006
CentralPointNews.com,From April 27 to May 6, 2007, Oregon Zoo Conservation Manager Anne Warner leads an adventure up the largest river in the world, the mighty Amazon. ...

Counting river dolphins in Peru  -  Oct 18, 2006
WWF International,...stage expedition to establish river dolphins numbers in the Amazon and Orinoco ... a good state,� said Freddy Arévalo with the Wildlife Conservation Society in ...

The Visayan Sea: wealth of the world  -  Oct 30, 2006
News Today Online,...compared the richness of Philippine marine life to the terrestrial Amazon River Basin ... to have Dr. Carpenter come over and help in the conservation efforts after ...

Can the Free Market Slow Deforestation?  -  Oct 24, 2006
Inter Press Service (subscription),...role, such as financing soya farm expansion into the Amazon forest and ... new institutions and technologies of a carbon-trading forest conservation network have ...

A look at the biodiversity extinction crisis  -  Oct 6, 2006
Mongabay.comThere are both undergraduate and graduate degrees in conservation biology, but ... the Galapagos Islands (Traveller's Wildlife Guides); Brazil: Amazon And Pantanal ...

Ed-ventures: Sort of like summer camp, but for grown-ups  -  Oct 21, 2006
Los Angeles Times,...glossy catalogs from the big nature tour providers, each infused with conservation ethos and scientific inquiry. I could be floating down the Amazon with a ...

"Debt for Nature Swaps" and Home Canning  -  Oct 12, 2006
Southwest News-Herald,Congo River Basin, the world's second largest tropical forest after the Amazon. ... that country’s establishment of tree planting and forest conservation programs ...

Brazil says no to rainforest privitazation plan, asks Gore for ...  -  Oct 18, 2006
Mongabay.com...world's highest annual loss of tropical forest, though Amazon deforestation has ... Falling commodity prices and rainforest conservation efforts are cited for the ...

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