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<title><![CDATA[poaching news from mongabay.com]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</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[Defaunation, like deforestation, threatens global biodiversity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Loss of wildlife is a subtle but growing threat to tropical forests, says a leading plant ecologist from Stanford University. Speaking in an interview with mongabay.com, Dr. Rodolfo Dirzo says that the disappearance of wildlife due to overexploitation, fragmentation, and habitat degradation is causing ecological changes in some of the world's most biodiverse tropical forests.  He ranks defaunation &#8212; as he terms the ongoing biological impoverishment of forests &#8212; as one of the world's most significant global changes, on par with environmental changes like global warming, deforestation, and shifts in the nitrogen cycle.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0520-interview_dirzo.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 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[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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<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>
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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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<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>
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<title><![CDATA[Thailand's forests could support 2,000 tigers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Thailand's network of parks could support 2,000 tigers, reports a new study by Thailand's Department of National Park, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation and the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1219-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare gorillas use weapons to attack forest-intruding humans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Following the first documented cases of the Cross River gorillas -- world's most endangered gorilla -- throwing sticks and clumps of grass when threatened by people, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has announced new research to better protect the species from poaching and encroachment.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1205-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforest Reserve Established in DR Congo to save bonobo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has announced the creation of a 11,803-square mile rainforest reserve to protect the habitat of the endangered bonobo, the so-called "peaceful chimp".  The reserve is located in the Sankuru region, an area that experienced extensive fighting during the long-running civil war in the Congo. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1119-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun Bears reclassified by IUCN as Vulnerable]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The world's smallest bear has been recently classified as vulnerable by the IUCN due to habitat loss and poaching.  Co-chair of the IUCN Bear Specialist Group, Dave Garshelis, states that "although we do not have any reliable population estimates for the sun bear, or any of the other Asian bears for that matter, we fear that bears in Southeast Asia are declining at a particularly rapid rate due to extensive loss of forest habitat combined with rampant poaching."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1113-sunbear_hance.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun bear gets 'vulnerable' listing due to deforestation, poaching]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The sun bear, the world's smallest bear, has been added to the global list of species threatened with extinction, said the World Conservation Union (IUCN).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1112-bears.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Subtle threats could ruin the Amazon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While the mention of Amazon destruction usually conjures up images of vast stretches of felled and burned rainforest trees, cattle ranches, and vast soybean farms, some of the biggest threats to the Amazon rainforest are barely perceptible from above.  Selective logging -- which opens up the forest canopy and allows winds and sunlight to dry leaf litter on the forest floor -- and 6-inch high "surface" fires are turning parts of the Amazon into a tinderbox, putting the world's largest rainforest at risk of ever-more severe forest fires.  At the same time, market-driven hunting is impoverishing some areas of seed dispersers and predators, making it more difficult for forests to recover. Climate change -- an its forecast impacts on the Amazon basin -- further looms large over the horizon.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1107-interview_carlos_peres.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Threatened Amur tiger shows signs of recovery]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a world where many animals are under siege, the Amur tiger -- popularly known in the West as the Siberian tiger -- offers an encouraging message: the population of the huge cat is showing signs of recovery.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1031-amur_tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Global warming puts primates at greater risk]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[29 percent of the world's primate species are in danger of going extinct warns a new report from the Primate Specialist Group of IUCN's Species Survival Commission (SSC) and the International Primatological Society (IPS).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1025-primates.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Apology for Whale Shooting given by Tribe]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The ninth of September saw a gray whale shot and killed by members of the Makah Tribe, off the coast of the Washington Coast, in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0913-josh_hill_whale.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress urged to protect big cats, endangered dogs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Efforts to protect many of the world's largest and most endangered wild relatives of cats and dogs recently moved a step closer to victory with a congressional hearing on the Great Cats and Rare Canids bill. Today's hearing was the first since the bill's introduction in 2004, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and other environmental groups which support this legislative initiative.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0907-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Chinese demand takes toll on wildlife in Burma (Myanmar)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If the market of Mong La is anything to go by, the remaining wild elephants, tigers and bears in Myanmar's forests are being hunted down slowly and sold to China.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0904-burma.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rebels invade Congo gorilla sanctuary, park rangers evacuated]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guerillas have invaded Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, causing park rangers to flee, and leaving critically endangered mountain gorillas at great risk, reports Wildlife Direct, a group that promotes wildlife protection through blogs by rangers and conservationists.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0904-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Large mammals disappearing from Africa's parks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Large mammals are disappearing from Africa's national parks, warn researchers writing in the September 2007 issue of the African Journal of Ecology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0831-africa.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Photo: newborn mountain gorilla born in Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Conservationists announced the birth of a critically endangered mountain gorilla in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park.  The newborn marked a positive development for the embattled apes in the park -- nine out of its 100 gorillas have been killed this year by poachers, including five last month.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0823-gorilla.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. military attacks illegal wildlife trade in Afghanistan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. military has teamed with the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to attack the illegal wildlife trade in Afghanistan, according to a statement from the Department of Defense.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0822-afghan.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[U.N. sends team to investigate gorilla killings]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.N. said it will send a team of experts to probe the killings of critically endangered mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  Four gorillas were shot "execution-style" last month, while three others have been killed so far this year.  Rangers believe illegal charcoal harvesters from Goma are to blame.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0810-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare gorillas slaughtered in mass killing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[At least four critically endangered gorillas have been killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park.  National Geographic News reports they were shot "execution-style".  Illegal charcoal harvesters are leading suspects in the slaying.  Two other gorillas are missing and feared dead.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0724-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Agents of death for wildlife become jewelry in Zambia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Craftswomen in Zambia are turning snares formerly used to illegal kill wildlife into jewelry.  Called "snareware", the handmade jewelry is part of a program that has grossed $350,000 for rural communities and helped protect endangered wildlife.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0712-wcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare three-legged tiger photographed in Sumatra]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A WWF camera trap has captured photos of a three-legged Sumatran tiger on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. WWF says the rare tiger likely escaped from a snare.  The big cat seems otherwise healthy.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0706-tiger.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0706-tiger.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Time running out for world's rarest gorilla]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Time is running out for the world's rarest subspecies of gorilla, the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) from the mountainous border region between Cameroon and Nigeria.  With less than 300 individuals remaining, conservationists have drawn up a new plan to save the great ape from extinction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0621-gorilla.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[African elephants get 9-year reprieve]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[African countries have agreed to extend a ban on ivory exports for another nine years. In a deal reached Wednesday at the meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in The Hague, four African countries will be allowed to sell their ivory stockpiles to raise funds for conservation and community development efforts.  The ivory had been intercepted from black market transactions and the sale by Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe had been previously approved.  The four countries say their elephant populations are increasing thanks to conservation and law enforcement efforts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0614-elephants_ivory.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Indo-Chinese tiger spotted in China for first time in years]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists captured a wild Indo-Chinese tiger on film in a nature reserve in China's southeastern Yunnan Province, reports the Worldwatch Institute.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0613-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[First park established in Russian Far East]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Russia has established the first national park in the far eastern part of the country.  The initiative seeks to protect endangered Amur tigers from extinction.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0608-wwf.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Logging roads rapidly expanding in Congo rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logging roads are rapidly expanding in the Congo rainforest, report researchers who have constructed the first satellite-based maps of road construction in Central Africa.  The authors say the work will help conservation agencies, governments, and scientists better understand how the expansion of logging is impacting the forest, its inhabitants, and global climate.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0607-congo.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Fashion trends push rhinos toward extinction]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The illegal trade in rhino horn, used for dubious medicines in Asia and traditional dagger handles in the Middle East, is driving some African rhino populations toward extinction, reports environmental group WWF and wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-rhinos.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-rhinos.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare kangaroos released into New Guinea rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China, soon to be the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, unveiled its first climate change initiative Tuesday. According to state media, the National Climate Change Program plan calls for China to reduce energy use 20 percent by  2010, promote carbon sink technologies and other adaptive technologies, raise the efficiency of coal-fired power plants, and increase the amount of renewable energy it produces.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-kangaroos.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-kangaroos.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Tiger parts trade must be banned to save great cats]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Trade in tiger products must be banned if tigers are to survive in the wild, reports a study published in Bioscience. The paper, The Fate of Wild Tigers, characterizes the decline in wild tiger population as ,catastrophic, and urges governments to outlaw all trade in tiger products from wild and captive-bred sources as well as step up conservation efforts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-tigers.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-tigers.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Illegal elephant ivory reaches the U.S.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Illegally poached elephant ivory is reaching markets in the United States reports a conservation group presenting at the wildlife trade conference meeting in The Hague. Care for the Wild International found 23,741 ivory items in surveys of stores in 15 American cities.  The group said half the ivory pieces for sale in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Honolulu were imported illegally, while less than 10 percent of such goods on the east coast were illicit.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0605-elephants.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Sale of elephant ivory to Japan approved]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) approved the sale of 60 tons of elephant ivory to Japan prior to the start of a 12-day wildlife conference in The Hague, Netherlands. The agency, which oversees the trade in wildlife products, said that South Africa, Botswana and Namibia can ivory from stocks gathered from elephants that have died naturally. The proceeds will go to a conservation fund.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0603-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0603-elephants.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving big cats depends on science, practical interventions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Big cats are some of Earth's largest and most threatened predators.  Long persecuted as perceived threats to livestock and humans, hunted for their skins and purported medicinal values, and losing critical habitat to deforestation and conversion for agriculture, big cat populations have dwindled around the world for the past century. Given these trends, it should come as no surprise that big cats have become the focus of conservation efforts.  Not only are large predators often the most vulnerable to human pressures and the first to disappear from ecosystems, but efforts to conserve them effectively help protect thousands of other species that share their habitat. At the forefront of these efforts in Dr. Luke Hunter, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) where he heads their Great Cats Program. In a May 2007 interview with mongabay.com, Hunter discussed strategies for conserving carnivores and offered insight for students interested in pursuing careers in conservation science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0522-interview_hunter.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0522-interview_hunter.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Congo guerillas threaten to kill rare gorillas]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fresh off killing a park ranger, a group of Congo guerillas said they will slaughter highly endangered mountain gorillas in Congo's Virunga National Park if their demands for immunity aren't met, says WildlifeDirect, a wildlife conservation organization active in the region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0521-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
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<title><![CDATA[Abalone poaching drives meth drug trade in South Africa]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Abalone poaching helps drive the methamphetamine trade in South Africa, reports an article in The Wall Street Journal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0520-meth.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0520-meth.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Top ten threatened species named by WWF]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced its top ten list for species in need of trade protection ahead of the upcoming Conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in The Hague, The Netherlands.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-wwf.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-wwf.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Top ten threatened species named by WWF]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced its top ten list for species in need of trade protection ahead of the upcoming Conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in The Hague, The Netherlands.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-wwf.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-wwf.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Asian gangs fueling the illegal ivory trade]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Asian-run organized crime syndicates based in Africa are behind the rising illegal trade in elephant ivory, reports TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of WWF and IUCN-The World Conservation Union.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0513-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0513-elephants.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Cuddly slow loris threatened by the pet trade]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The slow loris, a big-eyed primate found in the rainforests of southeast Asia, is threatened by the international pet trade said ProFauna Indonesia, a wildlife activist group that has called for a ban on the illegal trafficking of the charismatic animal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0509-loris.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0509-loris.html</guid>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Military technology uses satellite signals to catch poachers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Wild animals sought by poachers for their skins, meat and bones have a new means of protection developed by a visiting scholar at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF). Steve Gulick, an electrical engineer who calls himself a biologist wannabe, has designed a metal detector specifically to pick up the presence of poachers' weapons and send an electronic signal, via satellite, to law enforcement authorities. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0502-poaching.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0502-poaching.html</guid>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Commercial hunting may be biggest threat to tropical rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Commercial hunting is decimating wildlife populations across the tropics and may be one of the gravest threats presently facing rainforests, reports a series of studies published in the May issue of the journal Biotropica. The research reveals that large-scale loss of wildlife is already affecting forest health and regeneration.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0430-hunting.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0430-hunting.html</guid>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Scientists capture video of rare Borneo rhino]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[WWF has captured video footage of the rare Borneo rhino.  There are only 25-50 of the rhino left in the wild on the island. Video from a camera trap shows the animal eating, walking to the camera and sniffing the equipment.  It is first time the beast's behavior in the wild has been captured on film.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0424-rhino.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0424-rhino.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Rarest leopardess brutally killed in Russia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[WWF reports that a female Far Eastern leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) was found brutally killed in Russia.  The Far Eastern or Amur leopard is the world's rarest cat with a wild population numbering 25-34 individuals.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0423-leopard.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0423-leopard.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Congo forest elephants declining from logging roads, illegal ivory]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fast-expanding logging roads in the Congo basin are becoming 'highways of death' for the fierce but elusive forest elephant, according to a new study published in the journal Public Library of Science. Logging roads both provide access to remote forest areas for ivory poachers and serve as conduits of advancing human settlement.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0402-elephants.html</guid>
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<item>
<title><![CDATA[Elephant poaching for ivory accelerates]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Thousands of African elephants are being killed for their ivory tusks, according to a new study led by a biologist from the University of Washington. In a paper published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Samuel Wasser, director of the University of Washington Center for Conservation Biology, shows that elephants are being slaughtered at the highest rate since the international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0226-elephants.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0226-elephants.html</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Congo guerillas agree to protect rare gorillas]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rebels in eastern Congo have agreed to stop hunting mountain gorillas according to a report from the Associated Press.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-gorilla.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0124-gorilla.html</guid>
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