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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fruit-eating bats ingest dirt to counter toxic plant compounds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pregnant and lactating frugivorous bats ingest dirt in order to detoxify plant compounds in the fruit they eat, report researchers writing in the journal <i>PLoS ONE</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-bats.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nature tourism taking a toll in the Galapagos]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A booming "ecotourism" industry is bringing new threats to the Galapagos, reports a feature in the Wall Street Journal.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest destruction increasingly driven by corporate interests, not poverty]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical deforestation is increasingly enterprise-driven rather than the result of subsistence agriculture, a trend that has critical implications for the future of the world's forests, says Dr. Thomas Rudel, a researcher from Rutgers University.  As urbanization and government-sponsored development programs dwindle in the tropics, industrial logging and conversion for large-scale agriculture -- including oil palm plantations, soy farms, and cattle ranches -- are ever more important causes of forest destruction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1218-interview_rudel.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Iguanas listen to birds to avoid predators]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As the world's only sea-feeding lizard, Galapagos Marine Iguanas have long held a unique place in the animal kingdom.  While most of their life is spent on land, these lizards forage the seas for their staple food: algae.  Now, new research has provided this species with another distinction: although the Galapagos Marine Iguana is mute, it recognizes and utilizes the alarm call of the Galapagos Mockingbird.  This is the first instance of a non-vocal species eavesdropping on another species' calls.  Both the iguana and mockingbird fall prey to the Galapagos hawk, so by recognizing the mockingbird's warning the iguanas gain important information on avoiding predation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1029-hance_iguanas.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[WWF condemns iron fertilization scheme to fight global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Environmental group WWF condemned a scheme by Planktos, Inc. (OTCBB: PLKT) to dump up to 100 tons of iron dust in the open ocean west of the Galapagos Islands.  The firm claims the experiment will fertilize massive blooms of phytoplankton that will absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help fight global warming.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0627-planktos.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Extortion or global warming mitigation?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Marketwatch reported more details on Ecuador's proposal to forgo development of Amazonian oil fields in exchange for payments from industrialized nations.  Last month Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said that if the South American country is compensated with half of the forecasted lost revenues, it will not exploit oil in Yasuni National Park, setting aside the area for wildlife and indigenous people. Correa said the cost would be about $350 million per year.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0524-ecuador.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ecuador: pay us not to develop Amazon oil reserves]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ecuador says it will wait a year to see whether the international community takes its offer to forsake development of a giant oil field in the Amazon rainforest in exchange for compensation, reports the Environmental News Service.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0427-ecuador_oil.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chevron shareholders may be liable for billions in environmental damages]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The lead lawyer in the landmark environmental lawsuit against Chevron in Ecuador is in California to warn that the oil major has failed to prepare for a possible multi-billion dollar damages bill within the coming months]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0425-amazon_watch.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chili peppers came from Ecuadorian rainforests 6,100 years ago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Chili peppers were first cultivated 6,100 years in South America according to research published in the current edition of the journal Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0215-peppers.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging roads lead to disease, social breakdown in Ecuador rainforest communities]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging roads are linked to increased incidence of diarrheal disease and new social problems among communities along the Ecuadorian coast, according to a new study published in the Online Early Edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) for the week of December 4-8, 2006. Lead by Joseph Eisenberg, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, an international team of researchers examined diarrheal infections and social networks in 21 villages recently connected to a new government-constructed road network in the Choco rainforest of coastal Ecuador.  They found that the new roads bring colonists to the region and allow villagers to travel more easily between villages and larger cities.  Increased mobility increases the spread of bacteria, viruses and parasites according to Eisenberg.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1204-roads.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ecuador's oil nationalization may hurt environment]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week Ecuador seized Amazon oilfields controlled by Occidental, an American oil firm which produces about 20 percent of the country's oil output and has invested about $1 billion since 1999.  The decision will bring a short-term boost in government revenue while appealing to street protestors who have caused havoc for the country's politicians over the past few years.  However, looking the beyond the politics, the seizure could have implications for the environment of the country which is home to some of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0522-ecuador.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oil firm abandons road project for Amazon rainforest park in Ecuador]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian national oil company Petrobras abandoned plans to build an access road into Yasuni National Park, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The decision follows years of intense pressure from environmental groups and recent criticism by the Ecuadorian government. Instead the company will use helicopter transportation inside the park, according to a statement from Petrobras.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0426-ecuador.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chevron faces Billion-Dollar Liability for damage in Ecuador]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ChevronTexaco, now Chevron Corp (CVX), appears to be losing ground in the environmental "Trial of the Century" in Ecuador's rainforest over Texaco's operation of a former concession, according to the environmental group Amazon Watch.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0824-chevron.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ecuador: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Ecuador.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20ecuador.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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