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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The governments of Britain and Norway last week announced a $211 million (108 million) initiative to conserve rainforests in the Congo Basin.  The plan calls for the use of an advanced satellite camera to monitor deforestation in the region and funding for community-based conservation projects.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 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[Congo pygmies use GPS to map eco-certified timber concession]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Loggers have teamed with indigenous Pygmies to establish the largest ever eco-certified logging scheme.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest carbon credits could guide development in Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by offering carbon credits to countries that reduce deforestation may be one of the best mechanisms for promoting sustainable development in Central Africa says a remote sensing expert from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC). Dr. Nadine Laporte, an associate scientist with WHRC who uses remote sensing to analyze land use change in Africa, says that REDD could protect forests, safeguard biodiversity, and improve rural livelihoods in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other Central African nations.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Energy firm to mine oil sands in the Republic of Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Eni SpA, one of Italy's largest energy companies, has signed an agreement to exploit oil sands in the Republic of Congo, reports <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0521-roc_oil_sands.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biochar fund to fight hunger, energy poverty, deforestation, and global warming]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Biopact, a leading bioenergy web site, has announced the creation of a "Biochar Fund" to help poor farmers improve their quality of life without hurting the environment.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0310-biochar.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:00:00 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[NASA images show expansion of logging in Congo rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[New high resolution images of logging roads in the Congo region of Africa are helping researchers understand the expansion of industrial logging in Central Africa.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0715-nasa.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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>
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<title><![CDATA[New railway will facilitate logging in Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A new 800-km railway backed by a South Korean consortium will boost logging in the Republic of Congo, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in its April 1 Tropical Timber Market Report.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0425-congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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>
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<title><![CDATA[Avoided deforestation could send $38 billion to third world under global warming pact]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Avoided deforestation will be a hot point of discussion at next week's climate meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.  Already a coalition of 15 rainforest nations have proposed a plan whereby industrialized nations would pay them to protect their forests to offset greenhouse gas emissionsm.  Meanwhile, last month Brazil -- which has the world's largest extent of tropical rainforests and the world's highest rate of forest loss -- said it promote a similar initiative at the talks.  At stake: potentially billions of dollars for developing countries. When trees are cut greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere -- roughly 20 percent of annual emissions of such heat-trapping gases result from deforestation and forest degradation.  Avoided deforestation is the concept where countries are paid to prevent deforestation that would otherwise occur. Policymakers and environmentalists alike find the idea attractive because it could help fight climate change at a low cost while improving living standards for some of the world's poorest people and preserving biodiversity and other ecosystem services. A number of prominent conservation biologists and development agencies including the World Bank and the U.N. have already endorsed the idea.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1031-deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rainforests worth $1.1 trillion for carbon alone in Coalition nations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[If a coalition of developing countries has its way, there could soon be new forests sprouting up in tropical regions. The group of ten countries, led by Papua New Guinea, has proposed that wealthy countries pay them to preserve their rainforests. The Coalition for Rainforest Nations argues that all countries should pay for the benefits -- from carbon sequestration to watershed protection -- that tropical rainforests provide.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1129-rainforests.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Congo rain forest, an overview of a threatened ecosystem]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Known as the heart of darkness by Joseph Conrad, the Congo region has long conjured up thoughts of pygmies, mythical beasts, dreadful plagues, and cannibals. It is a land made famous by the adventures of Stanley and Livingstone and known as a place of brutality and violence for its past -- the days of the Arab slave and ivory trade, its long history of tribal warfare -- and its present -- the ethnic violence and massacres of today.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0606-rhett_butler.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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