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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Planet of the Apes Has Arrived, and It Is Spain]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Visiting Spain's Barcelona zoo as a child, I was greeted to a memorable sight.  In one of the cages sat a gorilla, but not just any primate.  I had come face to face with the legendary albino ape "Little Snowflake."  Because of Snowflake's white coat, when I looked at him I felt like I was peering into the eyes of a wizened old man.  The only difference was that Snowflake's eyes were pink!]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0703-kozloff_spain.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Orangutan populations have fallen sharply on the two islands where they still live, reports a new study published in the journal <i>Oryx</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nepal's tiger population plummets due to poaching]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nepal's tiger population have plummeted due to poaching and a booming trade in their parts, according to a government survey released Tuesday.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-tigers_nepal.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese prefer tigers in the wild over tigers on their plates]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new survey shows that most Chinese would rather have tigers living in the wild than tiger products on their dinner plates.  However the poll also revealed some notable contradictions in attitudes toward the trade in tiger parts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Meet Spook, the world's oldest gray seal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At the age of 43, Spook is the oldest gray seal on record at any aquarium or zoo in the world. He has surpassed his gray seal relatives in the wild that can live to 30 years of age.  Spook may be a senior citizen among seals, but retirement is not on his radar.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0702-maher_seal_wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lion die-offs in Africa linked to global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have linked climate shifts in East Africa to die-offs in lion populations in 1994 and 2001.  The research is published in the open-access journal <I>PLoS ONE</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-lions.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro's bamboo enigma]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At nearly 6,000 meters in height, Mount Kilimanjaro is both Africa's tallest mountain and the world's highest solitary peak, home to a diverse range of habitats that support a large variety of plant species. Yet, unlike any other mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro contains no bamboo.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-hance_bamboo.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Does logging contribute to AIDS deaths in Africa?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging activities in tropical Africa may pose hidden health risks to wildlife and humans according to a veterinary pathobiologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-aids_wildlife.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hunting, deforestation wipe out 6 of 7 hornbill species in Borneo park]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging, forest conversion for palm oil, and hunting have triggered a precipitous drop in key wildlife populations in Malaysia's Lambir Hills National Park, on the island of Borneo, said a biologist speaking at a scientific conference in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-harrison.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar's rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lemurs play a key role in the health of Madagascar's tropical rainforests said a renowned primatologist speaking at a meeting of conservation biologists in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-madagascar.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China's economic growth may be helping panda habitat recovery]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rapid economic growth may be helping the recovery of key panda habitat in Wolong Nature Reserve in China, said a researcher speaking at a meeting of conservation biologists in Paramaribo, Suiname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-pandas.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Major tiger conservation effort gets underway]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A broad alliance of environmentalits, scientists, and celebrities have teamed with the World Bank Group and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to help protect wild tigers.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0610-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Caribbean Monk Seal is officially declared extinct]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The NOAA fish service has officially declared the Caribbean Monk Seal extinct.  The seal--the first to go extinct by human causes--has not had a confirmed sighting for fifty-six year.  Many scientists believe sightings that have followed the last confirmation were probably of Hooded Seals and not the Caribbean Monk. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0610-hance_seal.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Guide to Monkeys of the Guianas released]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A pocket identification guide to the monkeys of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana was unveiled Sunday at a gathering of tropical biologists in Paramaribo, Suriname.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-ci_monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Argentina's primates under threat from agriculture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five species of non-human primates inhabit in northern Argentina: black and gold howlers, brown howlers, black capuchins, brown-capped capuchins, and owl monkeys. Although two of these species are clearly endangered (brown howlers and owl monkeys), populations of all other species are disappearing due to anthropogenic changes of their habitats. Most of the forests where these species inhabit are under continuous alteration and degradation due to soy, rice, and forest plantations, and exotic pastures for livestock. Moreover, protected forests in Argentina are insufficient to protect these primates.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-Zunino-Kowaleski_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mexican canyon serves as key refuge for endangered spider monkeys]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A picturesque canyon in Chiapas, Mexico is serving as an important refuge for the northernmost population of Spider monkeys, reports a study published in the June issue of <i>Tropical Conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-munoz_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare golden primates help speed recovery of endangered Brazilian forest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The endangered golden lion tamarin &#8212; a flagship species for conservation efforts in Brazil's highly threatened Atlantic Forest or <i>Mata Atlantica</i> &#8212; plays an important role in seed dispersal, thereby helping forest regeneration, according to research published in the June issue of the open access e-journal <i>Tropical Conservation Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0609-lapenta_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming harming plant-eating animals in the Arctic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Climate change is making it more difficult for plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments like as the Arctic to locate food, according to a new study published in the online edition of the journal <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-caribou.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Humpback whale population is recovering]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The number of humpback whales in the North Pacific Ocean has increased substantially since international and federal protections were put into place in the 1960s and 70s, according to a new study involving more than 400 whale researchers throughout the Pacific region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-humpbacks.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Marauding kangaroos may drive extinction of earless dragons in Australia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A plague of kangaroos overgrazing sensitive grasslands near Australia's capital city Canberra is jeopardizing habitat critical for the survival of endangered species including the golden sun moth (Synemon plana) and the grassland earless dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla), one of the world's rarest lizards, according to German and Australian.  Culling the kangaroos may be the only option for saving some of these grassland species from extinction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-kangaroos.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New research shows wild sloths sleep less than captive sloths]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Wild sloths are considerably more active than their counterparts in captivity, reports the first electrophysiological study of sleep in a wild animal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-sloths.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. lists the polar bear as threatened, but decision won't affect emissions rules]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Interior Department has decided to list the polar bear as a threatened species due to declining sea ice cover in the Arctic, according to the The Associated Press.  Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has scheduled a news conference Wednesday to announce the action.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0514-polar_bear.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of newly discovered species in Brazil's Cerrado]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An expedition to Brazil's Cerrado has turned up more than a dozen undiscovered species.  Conservationists say the discoveries add urgency to protecting the grassland habitat which is rapidly being converted for agriculture.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-cerrado.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Endangered species status of the polar bear to be decided May 15]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to stop delaying its decision on whether to list the polar bear as an endangered species.  Environmentalists say the bear is threatened by melting sea ice in its Arctic habitat.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0429-polar_bears.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fruit-eating bats ingest dirt to counter toxic plant compounds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pregnant and lactating frugivorous bats ingest dirt in order to detoxify plant compounds in the fruit they eat, report researchers writing in the journal <i>PLoS ONE</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0424-bats.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[World's rarest gorilla gets its own forest reserve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of Cameroon has established the first sanctuary exclusively for the world's rarest type of ape: the Cross River gorilla, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which helped support the project.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Borneo's pygmy elephants are an alien species]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new study suggests that the Borneo pygmy elephant -- one of Borneo's best known and charismatic animals -- is actually an invasive species introduced from a neighboring island by a former sultan.  The finding offers hope that in Borneo, the elephant can avoid the fate that befell it in its native Java: extinction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0418-borneo_elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile game to help save embattled gorillas in the Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For mobile users a new mobile game hopes to raise awareness of the plight of the mountain gorilla and funds for their conservation.  Silverback takes gamers through eight levels, following the life-span of a gorilla from childhood to adult.  The game was originally developed in 2003 by Fauna & Flora International.  Ken Banks, creator of www.kiwanja.net, helped develop the game.  In 2006 the game was taken off-line where as Banks says it "sat on a virtual shelf, gathering virtual dust".  He has now brought the game back in the hope that it will renew interest, and awareness, in the plight of the mountain gorilla.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0416-kiwanja_gorilla_game.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New expedition seeks evidence for survival of the 'extinct' Baiji]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The EDGE program, apart of the London Zoological Society, has sent an expedition to the Yangtze River to survey local fishermen for any evidence that the Baiji may still survive.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0416-baiji.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving the world's most recently discovered cat species in Borneo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last year two teams of scientists announced the discovery of a new species of clouded leopard in Borneo.  The news came as conservationists launched a major initiative to conserve a large area of forest on an island where logging and oil palm plantations have consumed vast expanses of highly biodiverse tropical rainforest over the past thirty years. Now a pair of researchers are racing against the clock to better understand the behavior of these rare cats to see how well they adapt to these changes in and around Danum Valley in Malaysia's Sabah state. Andrew Hearn and Joanna Ross run the Bornean Wild Cat and Clouded Leopard Project, an effort that aims to understand and protect Borneo's threatened wild cats, which include the flat-headed cat (Prionailurus planiceps), marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorata) leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) the endemic bay cat (Catopuma badia) and the Bornean clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-interview_hearn_ross.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-interview_hearn_ross.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[New map sets conservation priorities for Madagascar]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Compiling data on thousands of endemic species of ants, butterflies, frogs,
geckos, lemurs and plants, an international team of researchers has developed a comprehensive biodiversity map of Madagascar that will help determine determine future reserve placement and conservation planning on the Indian Ocean island and beyond.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0410-madagascar.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[First wolves killed in Wyoming after species loses ESA protection]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In one of a series of controversial decisions regarding the Endangered Species Act recently, the federal government has dropped the Rocky Mountain grey wolf from the program.  The announcement of the de-listing was made in mid-February, but did not go into effect until Friday when the reins of control were handed over from the federal government to the individual states.  Over the weekend wolf-hunting began in Wyoming.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0402-hance_wolves.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Africa's lions are disappearing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The lion is Africa's best known carnivore.  Once widely abundant across the continent, recent surveys show that lion populations have plunged from over 100,000 individuals to around 23,000 over the past century.  The reason?  Lions are poisoned, shot, and speared by locals who see them as a threat to livestock.  While lion populations in protected areas remain relatively healthy, conservationists say that without urgent measures, lions may disappear completely from unprotected areas. The Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation Project is working to avoid this fate by developing practical measures to encourage coexistence between people, livestock and predators.  Key to the effort is reducing livestock losses to lions. Leela Hazzah, a field researcher with the project, says the "Lion Guardians" program at Mbirikani Ranch in Kenya has proved remarkably successful: not a single lion has been killed since its inception in November 2006.  The program employs Maasai warriors to monitor lions and help local communities prevent attacks on livestock.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0325-interview_hazzah.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0325-interview_hazzah.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Satellite could help reindeer in the Arctic]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have used satellite data to detect Arctic conditions that cause mass starvation of hoofed animals depended on by native peoples. Some 20,000 musk oxen died on Canada's far-northern Banks Island because of such conditions during the winter several years ago. Yet, their deaths went unnoticed until the next spring. The new satellite-detection method could provide an early warning to native people, giving them a realistic chance of getting food to herds to prevent mass starvation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0318-agu.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rwanda launches reforestation project to protect chimps, drive ecotourism]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conservationists in Rwanda have launched an ambitious reforestation project that aims to create a forest corridor to link an isolated group of chimpanzees to larger  areas of habitat in Nyungwe National Park.  The initiative, called the Rwandan National Conservation Park, is backed by the Rwandan government, the Great Ape Trust of Iowa, and Earthpark, a group seeking to build an indoor rainforest in the U.S. Midwest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0318-rwanda.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[India has 1400 tigers -- not 3500]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A census of India's reserves found 1,411 tigers rather than the 3,508 estimated previously, according to the State Ministry of Environment and Forests.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0313-tigers_india.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 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>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0312-hance_hippo.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can snow leopards be saved?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conservationists and officials from twelve Asian countries are meeting in Beijing next week to discuss the fate of the endangered snow leopard.  Less than 7,000 snow leopard remain in the wild.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0306-snow_leopard.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Human impacts on primate conservation in central Amazonia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deforestation in the Amazon is a serious concern. In the Brazilian Amazon, forests are cleared for cattle ranches, soybean cultivation, and selective logging practices. A new plan to settle approximately 180 families north of Manaus, the capital city of the state of Amazonas, has created widespread controversy. The land plots would be located within the study site of the longest-running study of forest fragmentation, the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP). Therefore, the plan would threaten scientific research at the BDFFP and other nearby research sites operated by the Instituto Nacional da Pesquisas de Amaz&ocirc;nia (INPA) and Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA), as well as the future of the Central Amazonian Conservation Corridor.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_boyle.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_boyle.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Screaming elephant-cousin threatened by logging]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A small screaming mammal that may be the closest living relative of the elephant is threatened by logging and bushmeat hunting in East Africa, according to a study published in the inaugural issue of the open access e-journal Tropical Conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_yopp-Jorgensen.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_yopp-Jorgensen.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Fewer wolves may mean fewer pronghorn in Yellowstone]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As western states debate removing the gray wolf from protection under the Endangered Species Act, a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society cautions that doing so may result in an unintended decline in another species: the pronghorn, a uniquely North American animal that resembles an African antelope.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-wcs_yellowstone.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-wcs_yellowstone.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Fragmentation puts Mexican howlers at risk]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fragmentation is putting mantled howler monkeys in southern Mexico at risk, reports a new study, published in the inaugural issue of the open access e-journal Tropical Conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_mandujano.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0303-tcs_mandujano.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Aye-aye diverged from other lemurs 66M years ago]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The aye-aye -- a bizarre, nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with its fingers to find its insect prey -- was the first of its family to branch off from the rest of the lemur line some 66 million years ago, report Duke researchers writing in the March 1 issue of Genome Research.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-madagascar.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0225-madagascar.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[5,000 mile-long tiger corridor proposed]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,000 mile-long "genetic corridor" from Bhutan to Burma that would span eight countries and allow tiger populations to roam freely across the largest remaining block of tiger habitat.  The plan has been endorsed by leading conservationists and the new King of Bhutan, his Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0213-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0213-tigers.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[First photos of face-to-face mating by gorillas in the wild]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have taken the first photos of face-to-face copulation by wild gorillas. The images were captured in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0212-wcs_gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0212-wcs_gorillas.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Sumatran tiger faces extinction due to wildlife trade]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The critically endangered Sumatran Tiger faces extinction due to the tiger parts trade in Indonesia, reports a new report from TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network run by IUCN and WWF.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0212-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0212-tigers.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[New uakari monkey discovered in the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A previously unknown species of uakari monkey was discovered in the Brazilian Amazon, reports <i>National Geographic News</i>.  The primate was identified after it was killed by Yanomamo Indians near the Brazil-Venezuela border.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0205-monkey.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Giant shrew discovered in Tanzania]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than a quarter larger than all of its relations, the Grey-faced sengi (Rhynchocyon udzungwensis) was first discovered on a roll of film from camera traps set-up in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. The photos of this mysterious giant elephant-shrew were sent to expert Dr. Galen Rathbun, who has studied the sengi (or elephant-shrew) for over thirty years; after examiining the photos he believed that the animal's unique coloring proved it was an unknown species.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0201-hance_new_shrew.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0201-hance_new_shrew.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Arctic wolves caught on tape displaying new hunting behavior]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The BBC Natural History unit has captured footage of the Artic wolf swimming for its meal.  The camera crew were filming a documentary entitled White Falcon, White Wolf on Ellesmere Island, a part of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, when they spotted this never-before-seen behavior.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0131-hance_bbc.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0131-hance_bbc.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Border fence may drive largest American cat to extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bush Administration's decision to not prepare a recovery plan for the endangered jaguar in its native habitat in Arizona and New Mexico may spell the end for the big cat in the United States, says an environmental group.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0121-jaguar.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0121-jaguar.html</guid>
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