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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical forests under an innovative carbon finance scheme.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of rare pygmy hippo in Liberia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It's almost as though this normally shy mammal were posing for the camera.  The black-and-white image of a pygmy hippopotamus half-facing the camera is the first ever of a pygmy hippopotamus in Liberia.  Perhaps even more astonishing EDGE, the organization that accomplished the photo, believes the image to be only the second photographic evidence of the animal in the wild (the first was taken in 2006 in Sierra Leone).  This incredibly secretive animal is usually known through its prints and dung.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging resumes in Liberia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As former US president Bill Clinton arrives in Liberia to meet with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, it's time to take a look at the state of the forests in the country. While Liberia's brutal civil war delayed the commercial exploitation of its tropical forests during the 1990s, 'conflict timber' was a key source of revenue for warring factions. The harvesting of this wood, combined with collateral damage from military operations and wildlife poaching, took a heavy toll on Liberia's forests. With the end of the war, Liberia's new government--which took power at end of the war in 1998--immediately established forestry as a national priority and instituted a five-year tax holiday on timber industries. This policy, combined with the return of commercial interests to the country, repopulation, and reconstruction efforts, has put pressure on Liberia's remaining forest resources. Since the close of the 1990s, deforestation rates have increased by 17 percent, and primary forest cover in the country has fallen to just over 1.3 percent of the total land area (or 4.1 percent of the forest cover).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0716-liberia.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Environmentalists awarded prestigious prize for grassroots work]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tonight six grassroots environmentalists will be awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. This year's winners include a Vietnam veteran fighting Pentagon plans to incinerate chemical weapons stockpiles, a man who tipped the United Nations to illegal logging in war-torn Liberia, the person behind the creation of the world's largest area of protected tropical rainforest, a lawyer in Ukraine who helped block the construction of canal that would have cut through the heart of the Danube Delta, a woman who won resitution for indigenous land owners from logging interests in Papua New Guinea, and a researcher who pushed social impact assessments for major dam developments in China.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0424-goldman.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goodbye to West Africa's Rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[West Africa's once verdant and extensive rainforests are now a historical footnote. Gone to build ships and furniture, feed hungry mouths, and supply minerals and gems to the West, the band of tropical forests that once extended from Guinea to Cameroon are virtually gone. The loss of West Africa's rainforests have triggered a number of environmental problems that have contributed to social unrest and exacerbated poverty across the region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0122-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Liberia: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Liberia.  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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