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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. furniture demand drives illegal logging in Laos]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In Vietnam the illegal timber trade continues unabated, in many ways due to the Southeast Asian country's growing economy and wealthy nations' insatiable demand for cheap furniture.  Since 2000 Vietnam has seem a ten-fold increase in their furniture industry, a rise that is leading to large-scale illegal deforestation in the Mekong region, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak Indonesia.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0324-hance_vietnam_laos.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare jungle deer photographed for the first time]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A camera trap has captured the first ever pictures of an elusive forest deer in its natural habitat, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0723-laos.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[6 species of frogs discovered in Laos]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Six new species of frogs have been discovered in the Southeast Asia nation of Lao PDR, according to the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Three newly discovered frog species are described in the recent issue of Copeia, the journal of the American Society of Herpetologists and Ichthyologists.  WCS says that little is known about the new frogs, other than the location they were found and how the compare morphologically to similar species.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Newly discovered rodent not so new or rare after all]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The newly discovered species of rodent found in a marketplace in Central Laos turns out to not be so new or so rare after all. The Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus), as the long-whiskered and stubby-legged rodent is now known, is a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years.  It is a member of a family that, until now, was only known from the fossil record. The species was first described by Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) researcher Dr. Robert Timmins after it was found on a table at a hunter's market in central Laos. In a return trip to the market, WCS conservationist Peter Clyne found the rats to be quite common, photographing several specimens.  According to Clyne, the rat is commonly brought in by hunters and eaten by local people.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Crazy jungle rodent is 11 million years old]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The newly discovered species of rodent found in a marketplace in Central Laos turns out to not be so new after all. The Laotian rock rat, as the long-whiskered and stubby-legged rodent is now known, is a species believed to have been extinct for 11 million years. It is a member of a family that, until now, was only known from the fossil record.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0309-rodent.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Mar 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[Bizarre rodent discovered in Southeast Asia; Oddity new to science]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists working in Southeast Asia have discovered a long-whiskered rodent with stubby legs and a tail covered in dense hair. But don't call it a squirrel. Or a rat. Because it's actually more like a guinea pig or chinchilla. But not quite. In fact the new species, found in Laos by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other groups, is so unique it represents an entire new family of wildlife.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0511-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Laos: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Laos.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20laos.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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