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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) -- a group using innovative approaches to preserving culture and improving health among Amazonian rainforest tribes -- has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Nature's Path, an organic cereal manufacturer.  The funds will allow ACT to address one of the most pressing social concerns for Amazon forest dwellers by expanding its educational and cultural "Shamans and Apprentice" program for indigenous children in the region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1121-act.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amphibian extinction may be worse than thought]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Amphibian extinction rates may be higher than previously thought, according to new DNA analysis that found more than 60 unrecognized species in the Guiana Shield of South America.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1031-frogs.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservationists need to work with, not against, rural poor]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Rural populations have long been demonized by conservationists, but this is changing.  Increasingly, conservation groups see that without the support of rural populations, protected areas can in places be little more than ineffective "paper parks".  As such, today community involvement is viewed as a critical part of any conservation program, whether it be protecting biodiversity, slowing deforestation, curtailing illegal logging and poaching, or establishing reserves.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1025-interview_felix.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Low deforestation countries to see least benefit from carbon trading]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Countries that have done the best job protecting their tropical forests stand to gain the least from proposed incentives to combat global warming through carbon offsets, warns a new study published in Tuesday in the journal Public Library of Science Biology (PLoS).  The authors say that "high forest cover with low rates of deforestation" (HFLD) nations "could become the most vulnerable targets for deforestation if the Kyoto Protocol and upcoming negotiations on carbon trading fail to include intact standing forest."]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0813-deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mining gets approval despite recent species discoveries]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Suriname will allow mining in a highly biodiverse tract of forest where 24 previously unknown species were recently discovered.  The decision had been expected.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0613-suriname.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pictures of newly discovered species in Suriname]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists documented 467 species, including 24 species believed new to science, during a rainforest survey in eastern Suriname, South America. The expedition, led by Conservation International (CI), was sponsored by two mining companies, BHP-Billiton Maatschappij Suriname (BMS) and Suriname Aluminium Company LLC (Suralco), hoping to mine the area for bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum.  Conservation International said the Rapid Assessment Survey (RAP) will help "give miners guidance on protecting unique plants and animals during potential future development," according to a statement from the organization.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0604-suriname.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[China tropical log imports jump at Jiangsu port]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Logs imports through Zhangjiagang Port in Jiangsu Province, China have increased significantly in 2007, reports the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) in its bi-weekly update.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0516-china.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Time is running out for French Guiana's rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Understanding relationships between plants and animals is key to understanding rainforest ecology.  Dr. Pierre-Michel Forget of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in France is a renowned expert on the interdependency between rainforest trees and seed disperses.  Author of dozens of papers on tropical forest ecology, Dr Forget is increasingly concerned about deforestation and biodiversity loss in forests of the Guiana Shield region of Northern South America.  In particular he sees the invasion of informal gold miners, known as garimpeiros, as a significant threat to forests in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1219-interview_forget.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Amazon Indians use Google Earth, GPS to protect forest home]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Deep in the most remote jungles of South America, Amazon Indians are using Google Earth, Global Positioning System (GPS) mapping, and other technologies to protect their fast-dwindling home. Tribes in Suriname, Brazil, and Colombia are combining their traditional knowledge of the rainforest with Western technology to conserve forests and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions, which include profound knowledge of the forest ecosystem and medicinal plants. Helping them is the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), a nonprofit organization working with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, health, and culture in South American rainforests.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1114-google_earth-act.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon finance could net Guyana and Suriname tens of millions of dollars]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Guyana and Suriname -- two of South America's least known countries -- could earn tens of millions of dollars through a global warming deal that may be proposed this week at U.N. climate talks between 189 countries in Nairobi, Kenya.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1105-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indians are key to rainforest conservation efforts says renowned ethnobotanist]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical rainforests house hundreds of thousands of species of plants, many of which hold promise for their compounds which can be used to ward off pests and fight human disease.  No one understands the secrets of these plants better than indigenous shamans -medicine men and women - who have developed boundless knowledge of this library of flora for curing everything from foot rot to diabetes.  But like the forests themselves, the knowledge of these botanical wizards is fast-disappearing due to deforestation and profound cultural transformation among younger generations. The combined loss of this knowledge and these forests irreplaceably impoverishes the world of cultural and biological diversity. Dr. Mark Plotkin, President of the non-profit Amazon Conservation Team, is working to stop this fate by partnering with indigenous people to conserve biodiversity, health, and culture in South American rainforests.  Plotkin, a renowned ethnobotanist and accomplished author (Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, Medicine Quest) who was named one of Time Magazine's environmental "Hero for the Planet," has spent parts of the past 25 years living and working with shamans in Latin America.  Through his experiences, Plotkin has concluded that conservation and the well-being of indigenous people are intrinsically linked -- in forests inhabited by indigenous populations, you can't have one without the other.  Plotkin believes that existing conservation initiatives would be better-served by having more integration between indigenous populations and other forest preservation efforts.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1031-interview_plotkin.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest restoration important in Guyana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Located on the northern edge of South America, bordered by Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, and the Atlantic Ocean, lays a small but vibrant country with a wealth of culture, biodiversity and opportunity. During the week of 13-17 March 2006, representatives from Guyanese government departments, civil society and indigenous peoples' organizations met in the capital city, Georgetown, with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the International Tropical Timber Organization at a national workshop on Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). The workshop introduced the concept of FLR with the intention of better understanding how it may be applied in the Guyana context.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0501-guyana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suriname: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Suriname.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20suriname.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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