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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Investing to save rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week London-based Canopy Capital, a private equity firm, announced a historic deal to preserve the rainforest of Iwokrama, a 371,000-hectare reserve in the South American country of Guyana.  In exchange for funding a "significant" part of Iwokrama's $1.2 million research and conservation program on an ongoing basis, Canopy Capital secured the right to develop value for environmental services provided by the reserve. Essentially the financial firm has bet that the services generated by a living rainforest &#8212; including rainfall generation, climate regulation, biodiversity maintenance and carbon storage &#8212; will eventually be valuable in international markets. Hylton Murray-Philipson, director of Canopy Capital, says the agreement &#8212; which returns 80 percent of the proceeds to the people of Guyana &#8212; could set the stage for an era where forest conservation is driven by the pursuit of profit rather than overt altruistic concerns.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-hylton_interview.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Private equity firm buys rights to ecosystem services of Guyana rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A private equity firm has purchased the rights to environmental services generated by 371,000 hectare rainforest reserve in Guyana.  Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the agreement is precedent-setting in that a financial firm is betting that the services generated by a living rainforest &#8212; including rainfall generation, climate regulation, biodiversity maintenance and water storage &#8212; will eventually see compensation in international markets.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0327-iwokrama.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Guyana's logging deal in its best interests?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In January Guyana awarded U.S. timber firm Simon & Shock International a 400,000-hectare (988,400-acre) logging concession near the Brazilian border. Final approval hinges on the completion of an environmental impact survey and a tree inventory.  While Simon & Shock International says it plans to conduct selective logging, the firm has not announced whether it will seek Forest Stewardship Council certification, a mark for responsibly-harvested timber. Is there an alternative that can improve the lot for the average Guyanese?  There may be.  Last fall Guyana's President, Bharrat Jagdeo, hinted at the potential of using the country's forests as a giant carbon offset to counter climate change.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0221-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysian timber firm fined for illegal rainforest logging in Guyana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Barama Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Samling Group, a Malaysian logging firm, has been fined for violating Guyana's forest laws, reports Staebroek News.  Barama operates the largest timber concession in Guyana.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0122-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guyana grants 1 million acres of Amazon rainforest to U.S. logging firm]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guyana has awarded a 988,4000-acre logging concession to a U.S. forestry company, reports the Associated Press.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0109-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guyana's forests offered as massive carbon offset]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guyana has offered up the entirity of its remaining forest cover as a giant carbon offset, reports The Independent.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1126-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amphibian extinction may be worse than thought]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Amphibian extinction rates may be higher than previously thought, according to new DNA analysis that found more than 60 unrecognized species in the Guiana Shield of South America.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1031-frogs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest tribe establishes massive sustainable-use reserve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An indigenous group in Guyana has established one of the world's largest sustainable forest reserves, reports Conservation International.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1003-ci_guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 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[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[15 'new' bird species revealed in North America]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[DNA testing has revealed 15 'new' species of birds in North America and six 'new' species of bats from the South American country of Guyana, according to a paper appearing in the British journal Molecular Ecology Notes.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0218-birds.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biofuels, logging may spur deforestation in Guyana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Growing timber exports and rising interest in biofuels are raising concerns that deforestation could accelerate in the South American country of Guyana. Guyana is a small, lightly populated country on the north coast of South America. About three-quarters of Guyana is forested, roughly 60 percent of which is classified as primary forest. Guyana's forests are highly diverse: the country has some 1,263 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles, and 6,409 species of plants.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0215-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time is running out for French Guiana's rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Understanding relationships between plants and animals is key to understanding rainforest ecology.  Dr. Pierre-Michel Forget of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in France is a renowned expert on the interdependency between rainforest trees and seed disperses.  Author of dozens of papers on tropical forest ecology, Dr Forget is increasingly concerned about deforestation and biodiversity loss in forests of the Guiana Shield region of Northern South America.  In particular he sees the invasion of informal gold miners, known as garimpeiros, as a significant threat to forests in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1219-interview_forget.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon finance could net Guyana and Suriname tens of millions of dollars]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guyana and Suriname -- two of South America's least known countries -- could earn tens of millions of dollars through a global warming deal that may be proposed this week at U.N. climate talks between 189 countries in Nairobi, Kenya.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1105-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Stonehenge suggests advanced ancient rainforest culture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The discovery of an ancient astrological observatory in Brazil lends support to the theory that the Amazon rainforest was once home to advanced cultures and large sedentary populations of people. Besides the well-known empires of the Inca and their predecessors, millions of people once lived in the forests and shaped the environment to suit their own needs. Archaeologists with the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research said they uncovered the ruin near Calcoene, 390 kilometers (240 miles) from Macapa, the capital of Amapa state, near Brazil's border with French Guiana.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0514-amazon.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest restoration important in Guyana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Located on the northern edge of South America, bordered by Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, and the Atlantic Ocean, lays a small but vibrant country with a wealth of culture, biodiversity and opportunity. During the week of 13-17 March 2006, representatives from Guyanese government departments, civil society and indigenous peoples' organizations met in the capital city, Georgetown, with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the International Tropical Timber Organization at a national workshop on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). The workshop introduced the concept of FLR with the intention of better understanding how it may be applied in the Guyana context.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0501-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Builder of rainforest canopy walkways believes conservation can be profitable]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This month's issue of The Ecological Finance Review details Greenheart Conservation Company, a for-profit company that designs, builds and operates conservation based canopy walkways (canopy trails) and other nature-based attractions around the world. Operating on the premise that conservation can be economically viable, Greenheart believes that is has already become a "model of how to shift gears from an industrial to a green economy." Greenheart has developed or is developing canopy walkways in Peru, Nigeria, Madagascar, Ghana, Brazil, Guyana, the United Kingdon, and Canada.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0920-ecostructure.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guyana: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Guyana.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20guyana.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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