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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka's rainforests fast-disappearing but hope remains]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka, an island off the southern-most point of India, is known as a global biodiversity hotspot for its high number of species in a relatively limited area.  However this biological richness is highly threatened by one of the highest deforestation rates of primary forests in the world. In that period, the country lost more than 35 percent of its old-growth forest cover, while total forest cover was diminished by almost 18 percent. Worse, since the close of the 1990s, deforestation rates have increased by more than 25 percent. Dr Ranil Senanayake, chairman of Rainforest Rescue International, a grassroots environmental organization based in Sri Lanka, says that the key to saving the island's last forests is to "reintroduce the concept of sustainable livelihood" to the people living in and around the island's rainforests by establishing "commercially viable projects that explore the social and cultural relationships between people and ecology."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1106-interview_ranil.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Nigeria has the world's highest deforestation rate of primary forests according to revised deforestation figures from the the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1117-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[US ranks #7 in global forest loss, Cambodia has worst deforestation rate]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cambodia has the world's highest deforestation rate, Brazil loses the largest area of forest annually, and Congo consumes more bushmeat than any other tropical country. These are among the findings from mongabay.com's analysis of new deforestation figures from the United Nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/1115-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[16% of frogs species in Sri Lanka may be gone, new survey finds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a study published Thursday in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, researchers confirmed the discovery of 35 new frog species in Sri Lanka over the past decade brining the number of frog species in the island country to 105. However, the survey found that 17 of these species have disappeared and at least another 11 face imminent extinction unless their habitat is protected.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0702-rhett_butler.html</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Sri Lanka.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20srilanka.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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