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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mangrove destruction for fish trade may undermine fishermen in West Africa]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The harvesting of mangrove forests in West Africa for the smoked fish trade threatens to undermine the primary source of income for the very fishermen who supply fish to the market, reports a study published Monday in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-njisuh_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New rainforest sanctuary in Cameroon already at risk from plantations, hunting]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The forests of southern Cameroon bordering Gabon are biodiversity-rich and harbor important populations of gorillas, chimpanzees, and elephants. In 1998 the government of Cameroon established the Mengamé Gorilla Sanctuary and in 2002, working in close partnership with the government of Cameroon, the Jane Goodall Institute launched a project to protect habitat and biodiversity in the reserve while creating a connection between conservation and socio-economic improvement in communities bordering the sanctuary. The sanctuary now plays an important role in emerging trans-boundary protected area initiatives.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-evariste_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Primate conservation may enhance food availability to humans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Primate conservation may have the unintended benefit of enhancing food availability to humans reports a study led by African scientists. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-kone_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Teak wood may be improved by greater genetic diversity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Molecular genetics is an important tool not only in basic studies of phylogeny, genetic variation, and relatedness among others, but also for managing tropical forest resources that have important commercial value. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-fofana_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Commercial bushmeat trade is devastating wildlife]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Commercial killing of rainforest wildlife is putting biodiversity at risk and reducing sources of protein for rural populations, warns a new report from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB). ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-bushmeat.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[11 species of monkeys discovered in West African biodiversity hotspot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Urgent conservation measures are needed to protect some of the world's most endangered primates from the hunting, logging, and oil palm development in a region that has only recently emerged from a period of civil strife, report researchers writing in the open-access journal Tropical Conservation Science.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0915-sery_tcs.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cameroon and Nigeria have agreed to protect the the Cross River gorilla, world's most endangered gorilla, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped broker the deal.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0905-wcs_gorilla.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ghana becomes first country to sign sustainable timber pact with the E.U.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The European Union has signed a sustainable forestry deal with Ghana that would stop imports of illegally-harvested timber from the West African nation, according to a statement released by the European Forest Institute. The agreement comes under the European Commission's 2003 Action Plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT), which seeks to address illicit timber imports. The regulation requires chain-of-custody documentation for timber to be imported into the E.U. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0904-ghana_flegt.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 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>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0529-interview_laporte.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mobile game to help save embattled gorillas in the Congo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For mobile users a new mobile game hopes to raise awareness of the plight of the mountain gorilla and funds for their conservation.  Silverback takes gamers through eight levels, following the life-span of a gorilla from childhood to adult.  The game was originally developed in 2003 by Fauna & Flora International.  Ken Banks, creator of www.kiwanja.net, helped develop the game.  In 2006 the game was taken off-line where as Banks says it "sat on a virtual shelf, gathering virtual dust".  He has now brought the game back in the hope that it will renew interest, and awareness, in the plight of the mountain gorilla.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0416-kiwanja_gorilla_game.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Indigenous peoples of Congo map their forests with GPS in an effort to save them]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This week over five hundred villagers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's rainforest will employ GPS technology to map their forests in an effort to preserve their territory from logging companies. ]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0414-hance_congo.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos of rare pygmy hippo in Liberia]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It's almost as though this normally shy mammal were posing for the camera.  The black-and-white image of a pygmy hippopotamus half-facing the camera is the first ever of a pygmy hippopotamus in Liberia.  Perhaps even more astonishing EDGE, the organization that accomplished the photo, believes the image to be only the second photographic evidence of the animal in the wild (the first was taken in 2006 in Sierra Leone).  This incredibly secretive animal is usually known through its prints and dung.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0312-hance_hippo.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Carbon traders, not conservationists, could save Cameroon rainforest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The government of Cameroon is looking to lease 830,000 hectares of biodiverse tropical forest to conservationists for an annual sum of $1.6 million.  The problem?  No conservation groups are interested.  Apparently the asking price is too high, according to <a target=_blank href=http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10688618&subjectID=348924&fsrc=nwl>The Economist</a>.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0215-cameroon.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Sierra Leone bans timber exports]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone has re-imposed a timber export ban after accusing foreign companies of illegally logging its forests, according to BBC News.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0115-sierra_leone.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Pictures of new species discovered in West Africa]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have discovered significant populations of new, rare and threatened species in one of the largest remaining blocks of tropical forest in West Africa, reports conservation International (CI).  The findings underscore the need to conserve the area's high biological richness.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/1206-new_species_ghana.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 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>
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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>
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<title><![CDATA[Chimps hunt bush babies with spears]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Researchers have observed wild chimpanzees in Senegal hunting bush babies with spears, according to a paper published in the March 6 edition of the journal Current Biology.  The study is the first to report primates using tools for hunting other vertebrates.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0222-chimps.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Outbreak may be killing chimps in Guinea - Reuters]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Endangered chimpanzees are disappearing in the West African country of Guinea according to a report from Reuters.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1203-chimps.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cameroon could make millions of dollars under emissions deal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cameroon could net tens of millions of dollars under a carbon-trading initiative proposed by a coalition of developing countries and under discussion this week at U.N. climate talks in Nairobi, Kenya.  The key: cutting deforestation rates.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1106-cameroon.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Forest protection could earn tens of millions for Ghana]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ghana could earn tens of millions of dollars for reducing its deforestation rate under a carbon-trading initiative proposed by a coalition of developing countries and under discussion this week at U.N. climate talks in Nairobi, Kenya.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1106-ghana.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[West African black rhino may be extinct]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Recent surveys conducted by IUCN in northern Cameroon found no evidence of the West African black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes).  The organization fears the sub-species is now extinct in the wild.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0717-rhino.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Bushmeat from African apes sold in American markets]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Bushmeat from wild primates in Africa is ending up on plates in North America and western Europe according to an article published in the current issue of New Scientist.  Justin Brashares, a wildlife biologist at the University of California at Berkeley who carried out a survey of clandestine markets in seven major cities, says that the meat, which includes chimpanzee and gorilla parts, makes up nearly a third of the illegal international trade in bushmeat killed in Africa.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0706-bushmeat.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Debt-for-Nature Swap Protects Forest in Cameroon]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[France and Cameroon signed the first ever Central African debt for nature swap today. This agreement will invest at least $25 million over the next five years to protect part of the world's second largest tropical forest, home to elephants, gorillas, hundreds of bird species and indigenous people such as the Ba'Aka pygmies.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0622-wwf2.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Goodbye to West Africa's Rainforests]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[West Africa's once verdant and extensive rainforests are now a historical footnote. Gone to build ships and furniture, feed hungry mouths, and supply minerals and gems to the West, the band of tropical forests that once extended from Guinea to Cameroon are virtually gone. The loss of West Africa's rainforests have triggered a number of environmental problems that have contributed to social unrest and exacerbated poverty across the region.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0122-forests.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 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[Cocoa innovations could help West Africa escape poverty]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Ghana is leading efforts to use waste from cocoa farming to produce household products and drinks -- from fertilizer and soap to wine and brandy -- that will boost income for poor farmers.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0922-reuters.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In Niger, 50% deaths among children under five from malaria]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Seeking to avert a second wave of deaths among Niger's undernourished children, the World Health Organization (WHO) is dispatching 100 000 antimalarial treatments to the west African country, where peak malaria season has begun in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0920-who.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Timber hungry China moves into Africa]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With its projected growth rates, China will soon surpass the United States in wood consumption. This voracious appetite for timber is threatening tropical forests around the globe but nowhere is this more apparent than in Africa where China is increasingly focusing its development efforts and adding fuel to a booming trade in illegally harvested timber.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2005/0420x-tina_butler.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2005 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Senegal: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Senegal.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20senegal.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20senegal.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Nigeria: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Nigeria.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20nigeria.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20nigeria.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Sierra Leone: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Sierra Leone.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20sierraleone.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20sierraleone.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Niger: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Niger.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20niger.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20niger.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Mauritania: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Mauritania.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20mauritania.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20mauritania.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Liberia: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Liberia.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20liberia.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20liberia.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Guinea-Bissau: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Guinea-Bissau.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20guinea-bissau.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20guinea-bissau.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Togo: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Togo.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20togo.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20togo.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Guinea: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Guinea.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20guinea.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
<source url="http://www.mongabay.com/">Mongabay.com</source>
<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20guinea.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Ghana: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Ghana.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20ghana.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20ghana.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Cote D'Ivoire: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Cote D'Ivoire.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20cotedivoire.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20cotedivoire.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Gambia: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Gambia.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20gambia.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Equatorial Guinea: Environmental Profile]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Benin: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Benin.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20benin.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Burkina Faso: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Burkina Faso.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20burkina.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<guid>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20burkina.htm</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Cameroon: Environmental Profile]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[An overview of tropical rainforets found in Cameroon.  Includes forest cover and deforestation statistics.]]></description>
<link>http://rainforests.mongabay.com/20cameroon.htm</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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