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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mangrove species flourishes in the United Arab Emirates after a century of local extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A long-absent mangrove species is flowering again in the United Arab Emirates a hundred years since its disappearance.   Seeds of the rhizophora mucronata were brought from Pakistan and planted along the coast.  The project was a joint venture between the United Arab Emirate's (UAE) Department of President's Affairs and the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0820-hance_mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How to replant a mangrove forest: local, low-cost initiatives prove most successful]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mangrove replanting and rehabilitation has become a widespread and important environmental initiative worldwide.  Mangrove forests play key ecological roles, including sustaining fish populations and other wildlife, preventing erosion along coastlines, and acting as an overall carbon sink.  Furthermore, mangroves have received attention lately for their role in providing an effective buffer against typhoons.  In light of the many replanting initiatives now occurring, researchers J.H. Primavera and J.M.A. Esteban conducted a study of the overall effectiveness of different mangrove rehabilitation schemes.  Their findings show that small, local, and generally cheaper initiatives have a higher success rate over large costly government and international programs.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mangroves are key to healthy fisheries, finds study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mangroves serve as a critical nursery for young marine life and therefore play an important role in the health of fisheries and the economic well-being of fishermen, report researchers writing in the early online edition of the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0721-mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Destruction of wetlands worsens global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Destruction of wetland ecosystems will generate massive greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, warn experts convening at an international wetlands conference in Brazil.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0720-wetlands.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Massive deforestation of mangroves may have worsened scale of disaster in Burma]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Weeks after the devastating cyclone Nagris struck Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta on May 2nd, scientists and the media are debating the role in the scale of the disaster played by the region's deforestation of mangroves.  According to recent studies, mangrove forests act as a buffer against the effect's of tropical storms like Nagris, though scientists don't yet fully understand the relationship between storm mitigation and mangroves.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0513-hance_mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rich countries grow at ecological expense of poor countries]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The costs of environmental degradation caused by rich countries are disproportionately falling on the world's poorest countries, reports an analysis published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0121-economics.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Agriculture is primary driver of mangrove destruction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Agricultural expansion -- not shrimp farming -- is driving the rapid destruction of the world's mangrove forests, reports a new study published in the Journal of Biogeography.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1031-mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysia suffers big drop in shorebird populations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Malaysia suffered a big drop in shorebirds, reports a new study by Wetlands International.  The environmental group attributes the 22 percent decline between 1983-1986 and 2004-2006 to destruction of habitat for aquaculture, agriculture, industry, housing and recreation.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0905-wetlands.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart demand drives "greener" shrimp farms]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Wal-Mart's demand for sustainably-produced products is driving "greener" production of shrimp in Thailand, reports the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> (WSJ).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0724-shrimp.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mangroves more threatened than rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Destruction of mangrove forests could leave the world deprived of their important ecological services by the end of a century, warns an international team of scientists writing in the July 6th issue of the journal <i>Science</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0705-mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[70% of Indonesia's mangrove forests damaged]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[70 percent of Indonesia's remaining mangrove forests are damaged due to human activities, ANTARA News reported a local expert as saying.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0625-mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change Threatens Pacific Ocean Mangroves]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Action is needed to conserve mangroves in the Pacific amid concern that rising sea levels, linked with climate change, are set to drown large areas of these precious and economically important ecosystems.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0807-unep.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Coral reefs and mangroves have high economic value]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Protecting coral reefs and mangrove forests makes economic sense according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report argues that conserving these ecosystems for the services they provide--from fisheries protection to erosion control to a source for medical compounds--is cost-effective relative to destroying them and substituting their role with man-made structures.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0124-reefs.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm for tsunami-buffering mangrove projects waning]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Research over the past year has shown that areas buffered by coastal forests, like mangroves, were less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree vegetation. Accordingly, governments in tsunami-affected countries have proposed mangrove restoration projects along their coasts as a protective bioshield against storm damage.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1219-mangroves.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Tsunami relief risks rainforest destruction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Today WWF warned that donor countries must include sustainably sourced building materials in their long-term aid packages to avoid a second ecological disaster stemming from deforestation. According to WWF, Indonesia's Aceh province will require at least 860,000 cubic meters of sawn timber for the construction of 200,000 homes over the next five years. The conservation organization says that only a small fraction of this additional demand can be met locally without resorting to illegal logging that would be damaging to Sumatra's biologically important rain forests.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mangrove forests protected areas from 2004 tsunami says new study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A study released in late October shows that areas buffered by coastal forests, like mangroves, were less damaged by the 2004 tsunami than areas without tree vegetation. Last week the FAO reported that 20% of the world's mangrove forests have disappeared since 1980.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1118-wwf.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[20% of the world's mangroves lost since 1980]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[20% of the world's mangrove forests have disappeared since 1980 according to a new study by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1111-fao.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Types of Rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rainforests are found throughout the world, not only in tropical regions, but also in temperate regions like Canada, the United States, and the former Soviet Union. These forests, like tropical rainforests, receive abundant, year-round rainfall, and are characterized by an enclosed canopy and high species diversity, but lack the year-round warmth and sunlight associated with tropical rainforests. However this book focuses on tropical rainforests, and these are the only forest forms discussed here.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0103.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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