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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Massive deforestation of mangroves may have worsened scale of disaster in Burma]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Weeks after the devastating cyclone Nagris struck Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta on May 2nd, scientists and the media are debating the role in the scale of the disaster played by the region's deforestation of mangroves.  According to recent studies, mangrove forests act as a buffer against the effect's of tropical storms like Nagris, though scientists don't yet fully understand the relationship between storm mitigation and mangroves.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[84 rare spoon-billed sandpipers found in Myanmar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International found 84 critically endangered spoon-billed sandpipers in coastal Myanmar (Burma).  The discovery is welcome news for a species down to 200 to 300 pairs remaining in the wild.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First photos of a wild South China Tiger in 34 years]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Truckloads of illegal timber cross the Myanmar border to sawmills in China, while markets along the Thai border openly sell bear paws, tiger skins and elephant tusks.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1014-burma.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese demand takes toll on wildlife in Burma (Myanmar)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If the market of Mong La is anything to go by, the remaining wild elephants, tigers and bears in Myanmar's forests are being hunted down slowly and sold to China.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0904-burma.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese demand drives global deforestation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From outside, Cameroon's Ngambe-Tikar forest looks like a compact, tangled mass of healthy emerald green foliage. But tracks between the towering tropical hardwood trees open up into car park-sized clearings littered with logs as long as buses. Forestry officers say the reserve is under attack from unscrupulous commercial loggers who work outside authorized zones and do not respect size limits in their quest for maximum financial returns.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hiking through Myanmar, the country better known as Burma]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The recent history of Myanmar is rather grim. After gaining independence from the British in 1948, the country suffered a series of military takeovers, and has basically been under the dictatorship of a military junta for the past 50 years. At several points during this time, the people have taken to the streets to peacefully protest the military regime. The last major fight for democracy occurred in 1988, and climaxed with the first democratically held election since independence. The National League for Democracy (NLD), spearheaded by the charismatic Aung San Suu Kyi, won by an overwhelming 84% of the vote. Sadly, regardless of their promises, the military junta had no intention of relinquishing their power, and imprisoned the major leaders of the NLD.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0210-burma.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stopping deforestation could net Burma $1 billion]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Its status as a pariah state aside, Burma could earn hundreds of millions of dollars for cutting its deforestation rate under a carbon-trading initiative proposed by a coalition of developing countries and under discussion this week at U.N. climate talks in Nairobi, Kenya.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1106-burma.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China fuels illegal logging in Burma]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new report, launched today by Global Witness at the Foreign Correspondents&#39; Club in Bangkok , "A Choice for China -- Ending the destruction of Burma&#39;s northern frontier forests" , details shocking new evidence of the massive illicit plunder of Burma&#39;s forests by Chinese logging companies. Much of the logging takes place in forests that form part of an area said to be "very possibly the most bio-diverse, rich, temperate area on earth."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1031-global_witness.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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