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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Half the Amazon rainforest will be lost within 20 years]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be "cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned" in the next 20 years.  The damage will release 15-26 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere, adding to a feedback cycle that will worsen both warming and forest degradation in the region. While the projections are bleak, the authors are hopeful that emerging trends could reduce the likelihood of a near-term die-back.  These include the growing concern in commodity markets on the environmental performance of ranchers and farmers; greater investment in fire control mechanisms among owners of fire-sensitive investments; emergence of a carbon market for forest-based offsets; and the establishment of protected areas in regions where development is fast-expanding.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon trading could protect forests, reduce rural poverty]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Carbon trading from avoided deforestation (REDD) credits could yield billions of dollars for tropical countries, according to analysis by mongabay.com, a leading tropical forest web site.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing deforestation rates 10% could generate $13B in carbon trading under REDD]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cutting global deforestation rates 10 percent could generate up to $13.5 billion in carbon credits under a reducing emissions from deforestation ("REDD") initiative approved at the U.N. climate talks in Bali this past December, estimate researchers writing in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.  But the researchers caution there are still substantial obstacles to overcome before carbon-credits-for-rainforest-conservation becomes a reality.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-ebeling_redd_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil's ecosystem payments system offers clues for REDD implementation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil's existing system for environmental services payments could offer insight for implementing carbon-credits-for-forest-conservation (REDD) initiatives in the Amazon rainforest, argues a London School of Economics researcher in a new paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-hall_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon research and conservation cannot ignore social issues]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For Amazonian conservation to be effective it must start paying more attention to social issues according to a new paper: Taking things public: a contribution to address human dimensions of environmental change.  The paper's author, Dr. Diogenes Alves, of the National Institute for Space Research told mongabay.com that "the main point of this paper is that it became crucial to recognize the social, economic and political settings associated with environmental change in the Amazon."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-hance_alves_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil seeks $1B/yr in donations to save the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil will establish a donation-based fund to help finance conservation in the Amazon, according to Bloomberg.  The announcement comes after deforestation rates spiked during the last five months of 2007.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil bans illegal soy and cattle production in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian government launched a new initiative to slow deforestation in the Amazon, setting the stage for the country to potentially earn billions from carbon trading schemes set in motion two weeks ago at the U.N. climate meeting in Bali.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Conservation Team wins "Innovation in Conservation Award" for path-breaking work with Amazon tribes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) was today awarded mongabay.com's inaugural "Innovation in Conservation Award" for its path-breaking efforts to enable indigenous Amazonians to maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions while protecting their rainforest home from illegal loggers and miners.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1211-conservation_award.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming accelerates destruction of the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deforestation and climate change could damage or destroy as much as 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest by 2030, according to a new report from environmental group WWF. The report, The Amazon's Vicious Cycles: Drought and Fire in the Greenhouse, shows that degradation in the Amazon could release 55-97 million tons of carbon dioxide by 2030.  Forest loss could also dramatically impact water cycles in the region, affecting rainfall that is critical for river flows and agriculture.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1206-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon deforestation could be eliminated with carbon priced at $3]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon rainforest could play a major part in reducing greenhouse gas emissions that result from deforestation, reports a new study published by scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center, the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.  At a carbon price of $3 per ton, protecting the Amazon for its carbon value could outweigh the opportunity costs of forgoing logging, cattle ranching, and soy expansion in the region.  2008 certified emission-reduction credits for carbon currently trade at more than $90 per ton ($25 per ton of CO2).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1204-amazon_whrc.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Could the carbon market save the Amazon rainforest?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The global carbon market could play a key role in saving the Amazon from the effects of climate change and economic development, which could otherwise trigger dramatic ecological changes, reports a new paper published in Science. The authors argue that a well-articulated plan, financed by carbon markets, could prevent the worst outcomes for the Amazon forest while generating economic benefits for the region's inhabitants.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1129-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ground-breaking Amazon rainforest imagery will help monitor deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have developed a ground-breaking high resolution snapshot of 400,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest.  The work will help researchers remotely monitor deforestation, according to the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1127-whrc.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dutch bank arranges carbon-conservation deal in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Dutch bank Rabobank will launch the first-ever carbon credits project in the Xingu region of the Brazilian Amazon, reports The Financial Times.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Subtle threats could ruin the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While the mention of Amazon destruction usually conjures up images of vast stretches of felled and burned rainforest trees, cattle ranches, and vast soybean farms, some of the biggest threats to the Amazon rainforest are barely perceptible from above.  Selective logging -- which opens up the forest canopy and allows winds and sunlight to dry leaf litter on the forest floor -- and 6-inch high "surface" fires are turning parts of the Amazon into a tinderbox, putting the world's largest rainforest at risk of ever-more severe forest fires.  At the same time, market-driven hunting is impoverishing some areas of seed dispersers and predators, making it more difficult for forests to recover. Climate change -- an its forecast impacts on the Amazon basin -- further looms large over the horizon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1107-interview_carlos_peres.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is the Amazon more valuable for carbon offsets than cattle or soy?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[After a steep drop in deforestation rates since 2004, widespread fires in the Brazilian Amazon (September and October 2007) suggest that forest clearing may increase this year.  All told, since 2000 Brazil has lost more than 60,000 square miles (150,000 square kilometers) of rainforest -- an area larger than the state of Georgia or the country of Bangladesh.  Most of this destruction has been driven by clearing for cattle pasture and agriculture, often in association with infrastructure development and improvements.  Higher commodity prices, especially for beef and soy, have further spurred forest conversion in the region. While drivers of Amazon deforestation are stronger than ever, mounting concerns over climate change and the effort to reign in greenhouse gas emissions may provide new economic incentives for landowners to preserve forest lands through a concept known as "avoided deforestation".]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1017-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon deforestation in Brazil falls 29% for 2007]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell 29 percent for the 2006-2007 year, compared with the prior period.  The loss of 3,863 square miles (10,010 square kilometers) of rainforest was the lowest since the Brazilian government started tracking deforestation on a yearly basis in 1988.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon for the previous year were the lowest on record, according to preliminary figures released by INPE, Brazil's National Institute of Space Research.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0810-amazon_deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[450 years of Amazon research reviewed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Research on the Peruvian Amazon is largely inaccessible to the people who could make most use of it, reports a comprehensive review of 2,202 texts published over the past 450 years on the Madre de Dios region of southwestern Peru.  The study recommends the establishment of "a Web-based digital library for Neotropical nature" to make research more widely available.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0702-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can cattle ranchers and soy farmers save the Amazon?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[John Cain Carter, a Texas rancher who moved to the heart of the Amazon 11 years ago and founded what is perhaps the most innovative organization working in the Amazon, Alianca da Terra, believes the only way to save the Amazon is through the market.  Carter says that by giving producers incentives to reduce their impact on the forest, the market can succeed where conservation efforts have failed.  What is most remarkable about Alianca's system is that it has the potential to be applied to any commodity anywhere in the world. That means palm oil in Borneo could be certified just as easily as sugar cane in Brazil or sheep in New Zealand.  By addressing the supply chain, tracing agricultural products back to the specific fields where they were produced, the system offers perhaps the best market-based solution to combating deforestation.  Combining these approaches with large-scale land conservation and scientific research offers what may be the best hope for saving the Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-carter_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Globalization could save the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate. Few would dispute that it is one of the planet's most important landscapes. Despite its scale, the Amazon is also one of the fastest changing ecosystems, largely as a result of human activities, including deforestation, forest fires, and, increasingly, climate change. Few people understand these impacts better than Dr. Daniel Nepstad, one of the world's foremost experts on the Amazon rainforest. Now head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program in Belem, Brazil, Nepstad has spent more than 23 years in the Amazon, studying subjects ranging from forest fires and forest management policy to sustainable development. Nepstad says the Amazon is presently at a point unlike any he's ever seen, one where there are unparalleled risks and opportunities. While he's hopeful about some of the trends, he knows the Amazon faces difficult and immediate challenges.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-nepstad_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Reducing tropical deforestation will help fight global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have lent support to a plan by developing countries to fight global warming by reducing deforestation rates.  Tropical deforestation releases more than 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year, though in some years, like the 1997-1998 el Nino year when fires released some 2 billion tons of carbon from peat swamps alone in Indonesia, emissions are more than twice that. Writing in the journal Science, an international team of scientists argue that the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (RED) initiative, launched in 2005 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is scientifically and technologically sound, and that political and economic challenges facing the plan can be overcome.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0510-red.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New park in French Guiana creates largest Amazon protected area]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Environmental group WWF has applauded the creation of a new national park in French Guiana, a department of France located in northeaster South America. WWF says the 2 million-hectare Guyana Amazonian Park will link to protected areas in neighboring Brazil, including the Tumucumaque National Park, Grao-Para Station and Maicuru Reserve.  In total, the protected areas network will encompass 12 million hectares of tropical forest, making it the world's largest rainforest park.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) reports the Brazilian government plans to allow large-scale monitored harvesting of the Amazon rainforest. The new plan expands on an initiative proposed last year by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that would allow sustainable logging across 3 percent of the Amazon rain forest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0225-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Who pays for Amazon rainforest conservation?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last Monday, Brazil created the world's largest rainforest protected area in the northern Amazon. Covering more than 15 million hectares (57,915 square miles) -- or an area larger than England -- the network of seven new protected reserves has been met with praise by environmental groups. Instrumental in the development of the conservation project has been an organization that most people wouldn't associate with rainforest conservation but certainly should: the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1206-moore.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil creates world's largest rainforest reserve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil created the world's largest expanse of protected tropical rainforest in Para, the state where American nun Dorothy Stang was murdered after trying to protect land rights of rural poor.  The network of seven new protected areas covers an expanse of 15 million hectares (57,915 square miles) -- or an area larger than England -- and links to existing reserves to form a vast conservation corridor in the northern Amazon, one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1204-brazil.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British firm looks to Amazon rainforest for new drugs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A British drug discovery company has partnered with a Brazilian firm to look for medicines from Amazonian and Atlantic rainforests according to a news release from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1101-drugs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil proposes compensation plan for rainforest conservation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month Brazil proposed the establishment of a fund to compensate developing countries that reduce deforestation, a move that follows a similar initiative by a coalition of developing countries led by Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica.  The scheme could help cut greenhouse gas emissions that result from forest clearing and conversion.  Deforestation currently is responsible for 20-25 percent of such heat-trapping emissions.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1016-brazil.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon soy becomes greener]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazilian soy crushers and exporters will implement a two-year moratorium on trading soybeans grown on newly deforested lands in the Amazon basin.  The governance program takes effect in October 2006 and applies only to forest cleared after that date.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0725-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil, U.S. renew Amazon research agreements]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Thursday Brazil and the U.S. renewed two Amazon forest research agreements. Brazilian Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Dr. Luis Manuel Rebelo Fernandes signed two continuation agreements for research on the Amazon: the Large-Scale Biosphere - Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) and Biological Determinants of Forest Fragments Program (BDFFP). Implementation of the programs will be lead by Brazil's INPA, or the Brazilian Institute for Research in the Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0722-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil establishes 3 new parks in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva decreed three new protected areas in the Amazon basin, placing 1.84 million hectares (4.55 million acres) of rainforest off-limits for development. The environmental ministry said that since 2002 President Silva has created 57 protected areas in the Amazon preserving some 19.3 million hectare of rainforest.  More than twice that area -- at least 55 million hectares -- has been cleared since 1978, mostly as a result of forest conversion for cattle pasture and settlement.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0710-brazil.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can we save the rainforests? Lessons from the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When I think back over the last month, dozens of images come to mind. I am reminded of the many things we have learned during Project Peru 2, and the challenges that our team has overcome with your guidance and help. In a way all of the plants and animals in the rainforest rely on each other to survive in the same way that Warren, Ruben, Anna, Patrick, and I rely on each other.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0505-wc.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil to protect Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At the United Nations-sponsored environmental conference meeting in Curitiba, Brazil announced plans to protect an additional 210,000 square kilometers (84,000 square miles) of the Amazon rain forest in the next three years.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0328-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Parks, indian reserves slow Amazon deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study shows that parks and indigenous reserves in the Amazon help slow deforestation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0125-whrc.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bolivian rainforest certified to reduce greenhouse gas emissions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bolivian government, The Nature Conservancy and the Bolivian conservation organization Fundaci&#243;n Amigos de la Naturaleza announced that the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project is the first conservation-based initiative in the world to be fully certified for reducing greenhouse gas emissions using internationally accepted standards.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1220-tnc.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA Satellite Data Used to Assess Amazon Deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon, a vast tropical forest stretching across South America, is so large that is virtually impossible to study the evolving landscapes within the basin without the use of satellites. Scientists have used satellite imagery of the Amazon for more than 30 years to seek answers about this diverse ecosystem and the patterns and processes of land cover change. This technology continues to advance and a new study shows that NASA satellite images can allow scientists to more quickly and accurately assess deforestation in the Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0915-nasa.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil to crackdown on illegal logging says Environment Minister]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a report from Bloomberg, Brazil will increase the monitoring of logging in the Amazon rainforest and raise fines for those caught illegally clearing trees.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0809-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farming the world's largest fish - an alternative to deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Integrated aquaculture offers great potential for sustainable poverty allievation in the Amazon region. It reduces the need to clear land for subsistence agriculture while generating significant economic and nutritional benefits for poor Amazonian colonists.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0519-rhett_butler.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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