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DeforestationArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.htmlThe Associated PressClouded leopards are native to Southeast Asia, but are vulnerable to extinction because of hunting and deforestation. They weigh about a half pound when 'Reducing deforestation cheapest way to arrest global warming' - 25 Mar 2009 HinduDeforestation alone contributes over 25 per cent gases responsible for global warming," Michael Kleine of International Union of Forest Research New satellite to measure deforestation - 25 Mar 2009 Sheffield TelegraphTropical deforestation is thought to contribute around 20% of these emissions, but with huge uncertainties, and the true value may be as high as 30%. 'Crunch year' for world's forests - 25 Mar 2009 BBC NewsEarthwatch says it is vital for leaders attending a key UN summit in December to find a way to halt deforestation. Deforestation accounts for about 20% of Carbon Credits Should Be Given for Saving Trees, Australia Says - 25 Mar 2009 BloombergThe securities would be rewarded for avoiding deforestation starting in four years and trade on international carbon markets, Australia said in a proposal Welcome to the World Cup, now take a deep breath - 25 Mar 2009 The AgeIndonesia is one of the world's top-three greenhouse gas polluters — almost entirely due to the developing nation's appalling record of deforestation. We never said biochar is a miracle cure - 25 Mar 2009 guardian.co.uk...provides only a very small fraction of the land use-related CO2 drawdown, with reforestation and curtailed deforestation providing a magnitude more. Uganda Government News: Countries urged on climatic change - 25 Mar 2009 UGPulse.comCountries have been called upon to use the REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) as a tool to tackle climatic change. Is the Housing Crisis Good for the World’s Trees? - 25 Mar 2009 InhabitatApparently, simply cutting down fewer trees is not the only—nor the best—way to fight deforestation. Deforestation is a problem that must be tackled on a Study paints grim water picture of Dadeldhura - 25 Mar 2009 E KantipurDADELDHURA, March 25 - Water sources in Dadeldhura district are drying up at an alarming rate due to increasing deforestation and climate change. Nollywood lacks 'green' movies - 25 Mar 2009 Modern GhanaThe solution to deforestation, said Jibunoh, was a sustained tree planting campaign. The motion picture industry, he also added, has a role to play. Monthly Biodiversity Report from the Americas Program - 25 Mar 2009 IRC's Americas ProgramThese effects include the destruction of biodiversity, deforestation, contamination from agrochemicals, and violent dislocation of campesinos and indigenous Army Protects Endangered Plant - 25 Mar 2009 KGMB9Scientists say deforestation, animals, and other aggressive plants practically killed it off. Now the Army grows them in greenhouses. They Killed Sister Dorothy - 25 Mar 2009 PopMattersWorking tirelessly against deforestation, she helped the farmers to lay claim to acres of land under the Sustainable Development Project (PDS). Ecotourism could help the Amazon reduce deforestation and handle ... - Mar 24, 2009 WWF InternationalResponsible ecotourism in the region of Amazon tribuatary the Aripuana River, could help reduce deforestation and help to protect one in ten of the world's NIGER: Do Australian aborigines hold answers to Sahelian ... - Mar 18, 2009 IRINnews.orgBut with deforestation wiping out trees in Africa, agriculture experts told IRIN this aborigine import may fill a growing void. Though Africa has only 16 Will palm oil drive deforestation in the Amazon? - Mar 22, 2009 Mongabay.comAlready a significant driver of tropical forest conversion across southeast Asia, oil palm expansion could emerge as threat to the Amazon rainforest due to Govt should intervene to stop loss of forest cover - Mar 24, 2009 New VisionForest cover loss was also attributed to deforestation for wood fuel, urbanisation, industrial growth, migration, problems of internally displaced people Avoiding Deforestation in the Amazon through PES Markets - Mar 4, 2009 Ecosystem MarketplaceTropical deforestation accounts for 20 percent of heat-trapping gas emissions worldwide. In Brazil alone, 70 percent of greenhouse gases emissions come from Nigeria records highest deforestation rate in Africa - Mar 22, 2009 NEXTAt 3.5 per cent annually, the rate of deforestation in Nigeria is the highest in Africa, according to John Mshelbwala, an assistant director in the Forestry The New Miracle - Mar 24, 2009 Outlook...the new miracle stops climate breakdown, replaces gas and petroleum, improves the fertility of the soil, reduces deforestation, cuts labour, Govt to restructure Forestry Dept to address deforestation - Mar 22, 2009 Lusaka Times...the process of restructuring the Forestry Department to make it more effective in monitoring and assessing the extent of deforestation in the country. Rash of tiger attacks linked to deforestation by large paper ... - Mar 18, 2009 Mongabay.comDespite the animal's vulnerability, large-scale deforestation continues in its habitat mostly under the auspices of one of the world's largest paper Norway emerges as champion of rainforest conservation - Mar 19, 2009 Mongabay.comAt the time, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), was still a somewhat esoteric idea for curtailing emissions; one championed by a World lost 70m hectares of forest in 15 years: UN - Mar 17, 2009 Economic TimesThe State of the World's Forests report released Monday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said most of the deforestation has taken place in South Cessation of deforestation key to reduce GHG emission - Mar 19, 2009 Jakarta PostThere is pressure on it to embrace the ambitions of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Greenpeace to embed cessation of deforestation as a key means Guaraqueçaba: Where the Buffalo Roamed - Mar 19, 2009 Ecosystem Marketplace...by Steve Zwick If efforts to save the tropical rainforests by Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) ever yield large-scale results, Indonesia must boost palm yields to save forests - Mar 16, 2009 ReutersUp to 84 percent of Indonesia's carbon emissions come from deforestation, forest fires and peatland degradation, a report sponsored by the World Bank and Seeing the Forest for the Carbon – From Space - Mar 20, 2009 Ecosystem Marketplace...by Robin Kraft Brazil may lead the world in deforestation, but it's also a leader in using technology to try and reverse the process. Deforestation marches on in Afghanistan - Mar 18, 2009 RAWA NewsIn 2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai banned tree-felling, but deforestation has continued with large-scale illegal timber exports. ANALYSIS-Biofuels for airlines promising, but hurdles remain - Mar 9, 2009 ReutersExperts say the perennial plant can grow on marginal land with limited rainfall, and does not compete with other food crops or encourage deforestation. Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period - Mar 4, 2009 Mongabay.comDeforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to 291 square miles (754 square kilometers) in the November 2008-January 2009 window, a drop of 70 percent REDD in Indonesia could evict forest people from their lands ... - Mar 23, 2009 Mongabay.comFor instance, it seems that Indonesia's 2008 'Regulation on Implementation Procedures for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' WWF Urges Presidents of US, Brazil to Add Climate Change ... - Mar 12, 2009 Earthtimes (press release)Deforestation is the source of nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions – more than the combined emissions of every plane, train and automobile Facing fury for opposing deforestation - Mar 10, 2009 The StatesmanSAMBALPUR, March 10: Deogarh was once known for its rich forest cover and great diversity of flora and fauna, but deforestation in recent times has left it 37000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008 - Mar 18, 2009 Mongabay.comNew satellite system provides a more detailed look at forest degradation and may help Brazil stop deforestation before it occurs. Logging and fires damaged 'Amazon is both victim and villain' - Mar 11, 2009 guardian.co.ukThe problem of deforestation in the Amazon is not just a regional problem and it is not just Brazil's problem. It is a global problem and it must be treated PAUL ROSE TO HOST PUBLIC CLIMATE CHANGE EVENT - Mar 24, 2009 Community NewswireDr Bebber said: "As the climate changes - partly due to deforestation - products such as timber, fuel, food and medicines, which billions of people rely on, Carbon Sinks Losing The Battle With Rising Emissions - Mar 21, 2009 Science Daily (press release)Changes in the carbon sink on land through shifts in atmospheric composition, temperature and rainfall changes, deforestation, fire frequency and insect In search of a successor to Kyoto - Mar 23, 2009 istockAnalyst.com (press release)Fourth, reduce deforestation and increase afforestation because forests act as carbon sinks and absorb about 15 per cent of carbon emissions. UN Report: Global Financial Crisis Endangering Forests Worldwide - Mar 19, 2009 Voice of AmericaBrundtland said close to 18 percent of global CO2 emissions stem from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries. Deforestation rampant as authorities dither - Mar 16, 2009 Thanh Nien DailyThe Dac Ha forestry enterprise management said though its personnel had staked out deforestation-prone areas, they had failed to catch the loggers. World Bank Approves $1.3 Bln for Brazil Environment - Mar 5, 2009 BloombergBy Joshua Goodman March 5 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank approved today a $1.3 billion loan to help Brazil curb deforestation in the Amazon region and expand GO GREED! oops... I mean, GO GREEN! - Mar 23, 2009 VoxyMount Kilimanjaro is apparently not melting because of global warming, but because of deforestation. Deforestation has been causing it to melt since the Blago to host radio show -- interview guests - Mar 24, 2009 Chicago Sun-TimesBy carbon deforestation on March 24, 2009 12:06 PM I can't wait to call in and tell him my version of the truth. The guy is going to get it from the public, Destruction of Nature Dwarfs Economic Losses of World's Financial ... - Mar 21, 2009 Natural News.com...(NaturalNews) The economic cost of global deforestation far outstrips the money being lost from the current financial crisis, according to the findings of a Second growth forests - Mar 22, 2009 International Herald TribuneAlthough temporarily diminished by the global recession, deforestation rates in Brazil have fluctuated between 10000 and 20000 square kilometers per year. Deforestation Affects Humanity in Many Different Ways - Mar 12, 2009 Eco2dayIf this deforestation continues at this alarming rate people will need to understand that the support the forests are providing for the overall life on the UN helps Vietnam reduce greenhouse gas emission - Mar 22, 2009 VietNamNet BridgeThe other countries to benefit from the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries Obama admin. moves to curb mountaintop mining impacts - Mar 24, 2009 People's Weekly WorldAdditional mineral deposits and other pollution can negatively impact fish populations and promote deforestation among other harmful effects. [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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