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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Biopact, a leading bioenergy web site, has announced the creation of a "Biochar Fund" to help poor farmers improve their quality of life without hurting the environment.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0310-biochar.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest logging threatens endangered sea turtles]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging is having an unexpected impact on endangered sea turtles in Central Africa, reports a new study published in <i>Oryx</i>. Aerial surveys in Gabon reveal that logs lost during transport are clogging beaches, preventing critically endangered leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from nesting.
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<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-sea_turtles.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Central Africa's 'Most Beautiful Waterfall' to be destroyed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[One of Africa's most dramatic waterfalls will be destroyed by a hydroelectric project in Gabon, according to reports from a Gabonese NGO and the Inter Press Service (IPS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1104-gabon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Low deforestation countries to see least benefit from carbon trading]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Countries that have done the best job protecting their tropical forests stand to gain the least from proposed incentives to combat global warming through carbon offsets, warns a new study published in Tuesday in the journal Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS).  The authors say that "high forest cover with low rates of deforestation" (HFLD) nations "could become the most vulnerable targets for deforestation if the Kyoto Protocol and upcoming negotiations on carbon trading fail to include intact standing forest."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging roads rapidly expanding in Congo rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging roads are rapidly expanding in the Congo rainforest, report researchers who have constructed the first satellite-based maps of road construction in Central Africa.  The authors say the work will help conservation agencies, governments, and scientists better understand how the expansion of logging is impacting the forest, its inhabitants, and global climate.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China tropical log imports jump at Jiangsu port]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logs imports through Zhangjiagang Port in Jiangsu Province, China have increased significantly in 2007, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in its bi-weekly update.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-china.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Congo forest elephants declining from logging roads, illegal ivory]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fast-expanding logging roads in the Congo basin are becoming 'highways of death' for the fierce but elusive forest elephant, according to a new study published in the journal Public Library of Science. Logging roads both provide access to remote forest areas for ivory poachers and serve as conduits of advancing human settlement.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoided deforestation could send $38 billion to third world under global warming pact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Avoided deforestation will be a hot point of discussion at next week's climate meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.  Already a coalition of 15 rainforest nations have proposed a plan whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissionsm.  Meanwhile, last month Brazil -- which has the world's largest extent of tropical rainforests and the world's highest rate of forest loss -- said it promote a similar initiative at the talks.  At stake: potentially billions of dollars for developing countries. When trees are cut greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere -- roughly 20 percent of annual emissions of such heat-trapping gases result from deforestation and forest degradation.  Avoided deforestation is the concept where countries are paid to prevent deforestation that would otherwise occur. Policymakers and environmentalists alike find the idea attractive because it could help fight climate change at a low cost while improving living standards for some of the world's poorest people and preserving biodiversity and other ecosystem services. A number of prominent conservation biologists and development agencies including the World Bank and the U.N. have already endorsed the idea.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1031-deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[When elephants attack. Surviving an elephant charge in the Congo rainforest of Gabon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The elephant charges. The ground trembles. Hearts racing, we are now sprinting through the forest dodging vegetation as the elephant plows right through it. The problem with being chased by an elephant, aside from their obvious size advantage, is they can run faster than you. While wild elephants can be dangerous animals under the right circumstances, other creatures are responsible for more deaths in Africa. Topping the list is the hippo, whose penchant for capsizing canoes that come too close results in the dumping of passengers who often can't swim. Buffalo, crocodiles, and lions are directly responsible for more deaths and injuries.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0627-gabon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pictures of Gabon: gorillas, rainforest and white sand beaches]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mongabay.com, a leading rainforest and environmental web site, today announced the availability of new photos from the Central African country of Gabon. Site founder Rhett A. Butler visited Loango National Park in Gabon in late May and early June.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0626-gabon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in Coalition nations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If a coalition of developing countries has its way, there could soon be new forests sprouting up in tropical regions. The group of ten countries, led by Papua New Guinea, has proposed that wealthy countries pay them to preserve their rainforests. The Coalition for Rainforest Nations argues that all countries should pay for the benefits -- from carbon sequestration to watershed protection -- that tropical rainforests provide.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1129-rainforests.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gabon sets aside 10 percent of country as protected parks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a move that sets a new standard in African conservation, the nation of Gabon, which contains some of the most pristine tropical rainforests on earth, announced today that it will set aside 10 percent of its land mass for a system of national parks. Up to this point, Gabon had no national park system. The Gabonese government has been working closely with The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) on conservation issues for the past ten years. The announcement is a major victory for Africa's wildlife.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0924-gabon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Congo rain forest, an overview of a threatened ecosystem]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Known as the heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, the Congo region has long conjured up thoughts of pygmies, mythical beasts, dreadful plagues, and cannibals. It is a land made famous by the adventures of Stanley and Livingstone and known as a place of brutality and violence for its past -- the days of the Arab slave and ivory trade, its long history of tribal warfare -- and its present -- the ethnic violence and massacres of today.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0606-rhett_butler.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Gabon: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Gabon.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20gabon.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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