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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare golden primates help speed recovery of endangered Brazilian forest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The endangered golden lion tamarin &#8212; a flagship species for conservation efforts in Brazil's highly threatened Atlantic Forest or <i>Mata Atlantica</i> &#8212; plays an important role in seed dispersal, thereby helping forest regeneration, according to research published in the June issue of the open access e-journal <i>Tropical Conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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[A billion trees to be planted in Brazil's Atlantic Forest over the next 7 years]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A billion trees to be planted in the Atlantic Forest over the next seven years. The Nature Conservancy has begun a program to plant a billion trees in Brazil's dwindled Atlantic Forest.  The Atlantic Forest used to cover Brazil's long coast, but today only seven percent of the forest remains.  Both the megacities of Sao Paulo (the world's fifth largest city) and Rio de Janeiro have emerged and grown in what used to be tropical forest. Yet, the forest remaining retains an incredible bio-diversity much of it endemic.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[An interview with primate researcher Dr. Karen Strier: America's largest monkey recovering after brush with extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic forest of Brazil boasts South America's largest primates, the Southern and Northern Muriqui.  The muriqui are unique among all primates, because they are not territorial and do not display aggressive behavior.  The IUCN has classified the Southern Muriqui as endangered, while the Nothern Muriqui is critically endangered.  Dr. Karen Strier has studied the Northern Muriqui in the field for twenty-five years.  A professor of zoology and anthropology at the University of Madison Wisconsin, she is the author of Faces in the Forest: the Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of Brazil and a new textbook entitled Primate Behavioral Ecology.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Migrating frogs fare poorly when habitat altered]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Habitat loss and fragmentation are putting amphibians already threatened by climate change, pesticides, alien invasive species, and the outbreak of a deadly fungal infection at greater risk of extinction, reported a study published in Science last week.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil's threatened Atlantic forest may be more resilient than thought]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic forest of Brazil, one of the world's most threatened biodiversity hotspots, may have served as a critical refuge for biodiversity during the ice ages.  The findings suggest that despite being reduced to just 8 percent of its original extent due to agriculture and urban expansion, the Atlantic forest may be capable of recovery.  In other words, the Atlantic forest may be more resilient to change than previously believed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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