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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservation success story: birds stage dramatic recovery in Cambodia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[According to a report released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), several species of rare waterbirds from Cambodia's famed Tonle Sap region have staged remarkable comebacks, thanks to a project involving a single team of park rangers to provide 24-hour protection to breeding colonies. The project pioneered a novel approach: employing former hunters and egg collectors to protect and monitor the colonies, thereby guaranteeing the active involvement of local communities in the initiative.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0403-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Failing water supply destroyed lost city of Angkor Wat]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia was larger in extent than previously thought and fed by a single water system, according to a new map published by an international team of researchers.  The study, published in the early online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, suggests that the urban settlement sustained an elaborate water management network extending over more than 1,0000 square kilometers.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-angkor_wat.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Poverty and corruption reduce effectiveness of rainforest parks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Poverty and corruption are linked to higher incidence of fire in tropical forest reserves, reports a new study published in the journal Ecological Applications.  Poor, corrupt countries -- like Cambodia, Guatemala, Paraguay, and Sierra Leone -- have the least effective parks when measured in terms of the incidence of fire relative to surrounding "buffer" areas.  The findings have significant implications for rainforest conservation efforts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-wright_fires.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare softshell turtle rediscovered in Cambodia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists from Conservation International have successfully hatched a clutch of eggs from one of the world's most endangered turtle species.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-ci.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First ever photos of leopard with cub in Cambodia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[WWF has captured the first ever photos of a wild leopard with cub in Cambodia.  Leopards are exothermally rare in Cambodia, which has suffered one of the highest deforestation rates in southeast Asia due to illegal logging., clearing for agriculture, fires, and unsustainable hunting.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0505-leopard.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare vulture colony found in Cambodia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Working in the remote forests of Cambodia, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have just discovered Southeast Asia's only known breeding colony of  slender-billed vultures, one of the world's most threatened bird species.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0206-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia sets aside land for endangered bird]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cambodia has set aside more than one hundred square miles of habitat for the Bengal florican, a large grassland bird that is endangered due to habitat loss, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1106-cambodia.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia could earn $100 million under climate deal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cambodia could earn hundreds of millions of dollars through a global warming proposal under consideration this week at U.N. climate negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya. At talks last year in Montreal, a coalition of tropical developing countries lead by Papua New Guinea proposed a rainforest conservation compensation initiative whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset heat-trapping gas emissions.  After endorsements by the World Bank, the United Nations, and the United States, the plan will likely be discussed in greater detail at the Nairobi conference.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1105-cambodia.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nigeria has the world's highest deforestation rate of primary forests according to revised deforestation figures from the the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1117-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US ranks #7 in global forest loss, Cambodia has worst deforestation rate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cambodia has the world's highest deforestation rate, Brazil loses the largest area of forest annually, and Congo consumes more bushmeat than any other tropical country. These are among the findings from mongabay.com's analysis of new deforestation figures from the United Nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1115-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Natural resource management revolutionized around Cambodia's 'Great Lake']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Patrick Evans first arrived at Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake eight years ago, there were days when it seemed more like a militarized zone than one of the world's most productive freshwater fishing grounds.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0922-fao.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Microchip implant saves endangered turtle from the cooking pot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An extremely rare "royal" turtle narrowly escaped a trip to a Chinese soup-pot, thanks to a tiny microchip implanted in its skin, according to experts from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), who rediscovered the species four years ago in Cambodia.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0718-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cambodia: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Cambodia.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20cambodia.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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