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<title><![CDATA[Wild parrots tracked by satellite for the first time]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers are now tracking wild parrots from space.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 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>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guatemala gets conservation boost]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guatemala's Eastern Maya Biosphere Reserve will receive $3 million in funding from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Bronx Zoo-based organization announced Friday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 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[$24 million debt-for-nature swap in Guatemala]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical forest conservation efforts in Guatemala will receive $24 million under a debt-for-nature swap arranged by Conservation International (CI), The Nature Conservancy, and the governments of the United States and Guatemala.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest fires burn in Central America]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Hundreds of fires are burning across Central America according to NASA satellite images and reports from the ground. Fires have been detected in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Archaeologists make ancient Maya discovery in Guatemala]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers working in Guatemala have unearthed a monument with the earliest-known depiction of a woman of authority in ancient Mayan culture, according to an archaeologist at the University of Calgary. Kathryn Reese-Taylor said the 2-meter high limestone monument has a portrait of a female who could be either a ruler or a mythical goddess and dates 4th Century A.D. The statue, called a stela, was found at Naachtun, a Mayan city 90 km (55 miles) north of Tikal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1205-maya.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 06:00:00 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>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging threatens Mayan ruin, forest in Guatemala]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In the tropical forests of Guatemala, poor rural farmers and loggers are battling environmentalists, archaeologists, and Mel Gibson over the establishment of a 525,000-acre Mayan national park.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1113-wsj.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Poor aid response to storm damage in Central America]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical storm Stan has killed more than 120 people across Central America, including more than 60 in El Salvador and 50 in Guatemala, but international aid has been slow to arrive in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guatemala: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Guatemala.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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