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<title><![CDATA[No sacrifices to ending deforestation in the Amazon, only gains]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Regular columnist and co-creator of Brazil's environmental news website, O Eco, Sergio Abranches has great credibility in Brazil's eco-awakening.  A professor of political science, Abranches uses his unique talents to reach a widening audience in Brazil for environmental, energy, and climate change news and discussion.  He speaks expertly on any number of topics: from Amazonian deforestation to the current food crises to economic and political transformations for a warming world.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</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[Is Guyana's logging deal in its best interests?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In January Guyana awarded U.S. timber firm Simon & Shock International a 400,000-hectare (988,400-acre) logging concession near the Brazilian border. Final approval hinges on the completion of an environmental impact survey and a tree inventory.  While Simon & Shock International says it plans to conduct selective logging, the firm has not announced whether it will seek Forest Stewardship Council certification, a mark for responsibly-harvested timber. Is there an alternative that can improve the lot for the average Guyanese?  There may be.  Last fall Guyana's President, Bharrat Jagdeo, hinted at the potential of using the country's forests as a giant carbon offset to counter climate change.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Jersey scraps plan to buy Amazon rainforest timber]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The city council of Ocean City in New Jersey voted 6-0 last Thursday to cancel a $1.1 million purchase of ipe timber originating in the Amazon rainforest.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Barama Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Samling Group, a Malaysian logging firm, has been fined for violating Guyana's forest laws, reports Staebroek News.  Barama operates the largest timber concession in Guyana.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guyana grants 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to U.S. logging firm]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guyana has awarded a 988,4000-acre logging concession to a U.S. forestry company, reports the Associated Press.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New York City ends use of Amazon rainforest hardwoods in parks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a meeting with representatives of environmental groups Rainforest Relief and New York Climate Action Group, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe unveiled a plan to phase out the use of hardwoods logged from the rainforests of the Amazon, which the agency uses for benches, boardwalks and the decking of bridges in the thousands of parks and areas overseen by the department. Celia Peterson, director of the Specification Office of NYC Parks, stated that as of last month, Parks will no longer specify tropical hardwoods for benches.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 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>
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<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>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Better fine collection would cut illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil needs to substantially increase the collection of fines in order to have any impact on slowing illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, reports a new study from the Man and Environment Institute of the Amazon (IMAZON).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Land reform agency sanctions logging in Amazon rainforest park]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Under the guise of a sustainable development scheme, a Brazilian land agency has granted large tracts of Amazon rainforest to colonists who quickly resold the forest to loggers, alleges a new report from Greenpeace.  Some of the concessions were in the Amazon National Park, a national park.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Home improvement giant bans illegal wood products]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[B&Q, the third largest retailer of home improvement materials, announced that within three years, all Brazilian wood products sold in China would come from certified sources. B&Q has 60 stores in China.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Authorities bust multi-million dollar Amazon logging ring]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazilian authorities have busted a logging ring that used fake permits to cut 500,000 trees in the Amazon rainforest, reports Reuters.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0702-logging.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>
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<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>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mahogany logging threats tribal people, says report]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ahead of the CITES meeting in the Hague, a new report alleges widespread illegal mahogany logging in Peru.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Peru makes progress on illegal mahogany logging]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month Inrena, Peru's environmental agency, implemented regulations for mahogany loggers that will now require forest concession holders to replant ten times the logged amount of trees.  Overall, the initiative calls for the production and establishment of one million of mahogany plantlets over 5 years.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Better forest policies would reduce illegal logging in the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazil could improve sustainable forest management, reduce illegal logging, and perhaps cuts deforestation by introducing coherent policies for timber operations in the Amazon rainforest argues a new paper published in Frontiers in Ecology.  However, successful implementation of sustainable timber production will require overcoming significant biological and political hurdles, suggest the authors.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0506-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 05:00:00 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[Largest seizure of illegally logged Amazon rainforest timber announced by authorities]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[IBAMA, Brazil's environmental agency, announced the largest seizure ever of illegally logged timber from the Amazon rainforest. During a week-long operation -- code named Kojima  -- in late September, authorities impounded nearly 15,000 cubic meters of unlicensed wood in the Amazonian state of Para.  The agency said it was probably the largest seizure ever in the state.  Para was the state where last year Sister Dorothy Stang, an American nun who worked with rural poor, was killed by gunman associated with local plantation owners. In response to the murder, the Brazilian government sent in the army to quell violence in the region and promised to step up environmental monitoring efforts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1023-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[46 arrested for illegal Amazon logging]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that 46 people, including 16 agents of the federal environmental protection agency, were arrested for allegedly operating illegal logging operations in the Amazon rainforest and southern Brazil.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Selective logging leads to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study links selective logging to clear-cutting in the Amazon rainforest.  The research is significant because it identifies an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting in Brazil.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0731-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil closes down illegal timber operation, seizes wood]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazilian environmental authorities closed down an illegal logging operation in the Amazon according to a report from the Associated Press. An agent with Ipaam, the environmental authority of Amazonas state, told Michael Astor of the Associated Press that the Norte Wood logging company was operating without a license in town of Novo Aripuana. The agency made one arrest and seized 500 cubic meters of wood in the raid.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon to be logged sustainably says Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a plan to allow sustainable logging across 3 percent of the Amazon rain forest.  The law is aimed at undermining destructive illegal logging activities while generating revenue for forest management and protection, and income for rural Brazilians in the region who often must rely on subsistence agriculture or employment on ranches and plantations under sometimes slave-like conditions.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging can have low impact on Amazon rainforest says FAO]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has issued a response to a study that found selective logging in the Amazon is highly destructive. The research, conducted by scientists from the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University, was published in Science last month.  FAO argues that selective logging is not necessarily destructive and can be done with low impact on the remaining forests, if the proper techniques are applied.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging impact worse than thought in the Amazon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Research released earlier this month in Science found that Brazil's Amazon rain forest is being degraded twice as fast as deforestation figures suggest. Selective logging, where only one or two valuable tree species are harvested from an area, is driving the forest degradation. The findings have important implications for "sustainable harvesting" schemes that have been promoted as ecologically-sound alternatives to traditional harvesting techniques.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1101-logging_amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Timber traffickers arrested in Brazil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Brazilian federal police on Wednesday arrested at least 43 people accused of forging and selling permits for the transport of tens of millions of dollars (Euros) worth of illegally cut lumber, authorities said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[95% of mahogany from Peru is illegally logged says scientist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[95 percent of the mahogany that leaves the rainforests of Peru is logged illegally according to a scientist at the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1006-peru.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pig iron production fueling Amazon deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pig iron production in the states of Para and Maranhao is fueling deforestation a Brazilian newspaper reports.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0921-amigos.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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