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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Soil ingestion helps chimps protect themselves from malaria, reports a new study published in the journal Naturwissenschaften.  Apparently geophagy, as the deliberate behavior is known, increases the potency of ingested plants with anti-malarial properties.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uganda renews plans to log rainforest reserve for sugar cane]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni on Friday revived a controversial plan to grant a forest reserve to commercial sugar cane interests.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1221-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Parasites a key to the decline of red colobus monkeys in forest fragments]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, often causing declines or local extinctions in a majority of species while enhancing the prospects of a few. A new study from the University of Illinois shows that parasites can play a pivotal role in the decline of species in fragmented forests. This is the first study to look at how forest fragmentation increases the burden of infectious parasites on animals already stressed by disturbances to their habitat.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1025-colobus.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uganda cancels controversial rainforest logging plan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda's government abandoned a controversial plan to grant protected rainforest land to a sugar company, reports Reuters.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1017-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The other side of carbon trading]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Planting trees in Uganda to offset greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe seemed like a good idea - until farmers were evicted from their land to make room for a forest.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0829-fortune.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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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>
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<title><![CDATA[Uganda abandons rainforest logging for palm oil]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Ugandan government abandoned plans to log thousands of hectares of rainforest on Bugala island in Lake Victoria for a palm oil plantation, Reuters reported Saturday.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0527-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uganda rainforest reserve safe, for now]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda's cabinet has suspended a proposal to allow a sugarcane grower to convert part of Mabria rainforest reserve for a plantation, reports Reuters.  The plan, a pet project of president Yoweri Museveni, faced widespread opposition that was capped by deadly riots.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0523-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare mountain gorillas in Uganda on the increase]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[High endangered mountain gorillas in Uganda are increasing, reports a new census by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Max Planck Institute of Anthropology and other groups.  The population of gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has increased from 320 in 2002 to 340 today.  A 1997 study found 300 gorillas, indicating that the park population has increased by 20 percent over the past decade.  Aggressive conservation measures have been the key say researchers.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0420-gorillas.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New monkey species in Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda may soon have a new species of monkey according to a report published in Kampala's <i>New Vision</i> newspaper. Dr. Colin Groves of the Australian National University told New Vision that the local population of the gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) will soon be designated as a unique species, the Ugandan gray-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus ugandae).]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0219-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President Museveni needs to do what's best for Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In recent months Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has moved to destroy some of Uganda's last remaining primary rainforests to give land to politically-connected plantation owners.  Personally intervening in two disputes, one in Mabira Forest Reserve and the other on Bugala island in Lake Victoria, Museveni has argued that his country urgently needs such projects to industrialize and bring a better quality of life to Ugandans.  He would be wrong.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1214-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[President Museveni again moves against Uganda's forests<]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has again taken action against rainforest conservation in Uganda, moving to hand a protected forest reserve over to private agricultural interests intent on clearing trees, according to a report from Reuters.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1206-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sugar cane plantation threatens rare forest in Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A plan to clear a protected forest reserve for sugar cane has sparked controversy in Uganda according to a report from Reuters. Uganda-based Mehta Group, owner of a sugar plantation that borders Mabira forest, a nature reserve since 1932, asked Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to consider a proposal that would level about 7,000 hectares, or about a quarter of the reserve which is home to 312 species of tree, 287 species of bird and 199 species of butterfly.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1129-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Emissions for forest conservation scheme could net Uganda $50 million or more per year]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda could earn tens of millions of dollars through a global warming proposal under consideration this week at U.N. climate negotiations in Nairobi, Kenya.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1105-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Africa's glaciers gone by 2025]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades, because of global warming, a study British and Ugandan scientists has found. In a paper to be published 17 May in Geophysical Research Letters, they report results from the first survey in a decade of glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains of East Africa. An increase in air temperature over the last four decades has contributed to a substantial reduction in glacial cover, they say.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0515-agu.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Lake Victoria illegally drained for electricity in Uganda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake, is being covertly drained for hydroelectric power according to an article published in the Feb. 11 New Scientist magazine. The report, written by Fred Pearce, says that Uganda is violating a 50-year-old international agreement designed to protect the lake. The following is a release from the New Scientist.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0208-victoria.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Deforestation rates jump in Uganda and Burundi, fall in Rwanda]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Tropical deforestation rates have skyrocketed in Uganda and Burundi, while declining significantly in Rwanda according to mongabay.com's analysis of data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0125-uganda.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uganda imports rhinos from Kenya]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Uganda has imported four rhinos from Kenya according to the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA). UWA hopes to develop a captive breeding program in an effort to reintroduce rhinos after their disappearance from the country in the 1960s due to poaching.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0726-rhino.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Uganda: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Uganda.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20uganda.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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