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Tropical ForestArchive of news articles on external web sites. For mongabay-specific articles, please see http://www.mongabay.com/xml-list.html
It takes a village to save a monkey - 27 Sep 2008 TheChronicleHerald.ca,...of a Chinese landscape painting, they appear untouched by time and change, but it is remarkable that they and their tropical forest home have survived. People of Guiuan eagerly await PGMA visit on Tuesday - 27 Sep 2008 Philippine Information Agency,Calicoan Island is known as a Surfer's Paradise, with its rugged landscape, tropical forest, wonderful lagoons, breathtaking white beaches, crystal-clear Smithsonian Exhibit at GHC Features Tropical Forest - Sep 25, 2008 Rome News Wire,The new one, titled A Magic Web: The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island, features the vivid photography of tropical ecologist and nature photographer More cash needed to fight tropical forest loss - Sep 24, 2008 Timber Trades Journal (subscription),The EU has called for more cash to be made available to stem the loss of tropical forests. MEPs asked the European Commission and member states to increase Surprise: Old-growth forests soak up CO2 - Sep 24, 2008 Christian Science Monitor,Setting up a system to give developing countries credit for tropical-forest conservation is seen by many as low-hanging fruit in the struggle against Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and ... - Sep 24, 2008 Mongabay.comThe EU must also join tropical forest nations to embrace the role that avoided deforestation can play in combating climate change and poverty. Oil Palm Plantations Are No Substitute For Tropical Rainforests, A ... - Sep 15, 2008 Science Daily (press release)Oil palm certainly has directly replaced tropical forest in some areas, but oil palm companies also often have close links with timber or paper pulp EU, Ghana Agree to Protect Tropical Forest With Timber Pact - Sep 3, 2008 BloombergBy Jeremy van Loon Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The European Union reached its first agreement to halt illegal timber imports to the 27-member group and label Nobel Peace Laureates Al Gore and Wangari Maathai Warn of Threat ... - Sep 22, 2008 MarketWatchWorldwide, one acre of tropical forest is lost every second. Professor Maathai stressed the significance of protecting tropical forests for the world's most Tanzania / UN and Norway UN-ite to Combat Deforestation - Sep 24, 2008 Organisation de la Presse Africaine (Communiqués de presse),Forest Carbon Partnership Facility; the Global Environment Facility’s Tropical Forest Account; and Australia’s International Forest Carbon Initiative. EU carbon trading: tropical forests poised to win credits - Sep 19, 2008 ClimateChangeCorp.com,Canopy Capital’s five-year deal was announced last year and the project is based in Guyana, 85% of which is still covered with tropical forest. Threatened forest in Kenya home to a diversity of bird life - Sep 14, 2008 Mongabay.comSurveying the lowland evergreen riverine tropical forest — a forest type that is rare in Kenya and probably in Africa — to establish a baseline for the International Tropical Timber Agreement not enough to protect forests - Sep 24, 2008 European Parliament (press release),...(International Tropical Timber Agreement) but considers that the outcome falls well short of what is required to address the loss of tropical forest. Leaders wary of hurdles to climate treaty in 2009 - Sep 24, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,Some nations, such as Indonesia, which has abundant tropical forest cover, could receive as much as $1 billion a year by making steep cuts in its Growing aquilaria promises bright future for farmers - Sep 22, 2008 Viet Nam News,Aquilaria is a fast-growing, archaic tropical forest tree, found in Viet Nam, but is in danger of extinction. The tree grows in natural forests at an Swamp Things Slither in $488 Million California Science Museum - Sep 22, 2008 BloombergOn the other, a tropical forest grows within a matching 90-foot-diameter glass globe. Burbling on all sides are the tops of aquarium tanks. Dunedin welcomes new hot spot - Sep 2, 2008 3 News NZ,A lush, living, tropical environment, the Tropical Forest that houses the butterfly experience will bring visitors face to face with some of nature's most Past climate change cut mammal biodiversity by over half in lost ... - Sep 26, 2008 Mongabay.comAlthough unlike any contemporary ecosystem surviving, it probably most resembled a cross-between Africa's tropical forest and savannah. Monoculture tree plantations are “green deserts� not forests, say ... - Sep 19, 2008 Mongabay.comSince 1980 tropical forest plantations have expanded by almost fivefold. For these reasons, environmental organizations, indigenous peoples’ groups, UNFF CLI ON FINANCING SFM HIGHLIGHTS - Sep 9, 2008 Earth Negotiations Bulletin,International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), gave an overview of ITTO’s financing of sustainable tropical forest management, noting that between Butterflies are hot, hot, hot - Sep 3, 2008 3 News NZ,With over 135000 people visiting the Otago Museum’s new Tropical Forest since it opened last November there is no doubt the new attraction is the hottest Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest - Sep 17, 2008 Mongabay.comBrazil is home to more than 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest, Earth's largest tropical forest. The Amazon is estimated to hold around 90-140 billions Iguazu The Next Hot Argentinean Destination - Sep 17, 2008 Focus on Travel News,Yriapu Tropical Forest will concentrate most of the investment that will be guided by sustainable practices including low density hotels, Guyana challenges Europe to save its rainforests - Sep 9, 2008 OneWorld.net,...by large areas of intact tropical forest are significant and include climate regulation, rainfall production, water storage, and weather moderation. Rainforest a true labour of love - Sep 23, 2008 Manning River Times,FOR the first time the sub-tropical forest ‘Raintrees’ gardens at Diamond Beach will be open to the public. Terry and Barbara Wright will welcome visitors Guyana's president speaks about financing forest management - Sep 13, 2008 Caribbean Net News,He also emphasised that "without proper valuation of our forests, tropical forest countries may be short changed in the negotiations. The High Price Of Taking Trees For Granted - Sep 23, 2008 Huffington Post,...squandering away one of our most important natural capital. Today, I am asking you to take a few minutes, and claim your one acre of the tropical forest. Feature: Saving the uplands, saving the gulf - Sep 23, 2008 Philippine Information Agency,In partnership with the Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Foundation (PTFCF), SDGF gave life to the Save the Uplands, Save the Gulf Project. US Bans Illegally Harvested Wood - Sep 4, 2008 Interior Design,Groups such as the Environmental Investigation Agency and the Tropical Forest Trust agree, with Alexander von Bismark, executive director of the Why is a banana shaped like a banana? - Sep 25, 2008 San Diego Union Tribune,A 1983 study by Janson, for example, found that indigenous birds and mammals in a Peruvian tropical forest tended to prefer fruit species that best matched What makes shade-grown coffee eco friendly? - Sep 26, 2008 Plenty Magazine,Community, and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), 20-25% of greenhouse gas emissions can be blamed on our nasty habit of cutting down tropical forest. The Buzz: Herster Barres - Sep 6, 2008 TheDay,Enter the klinkii: Barres cites a report that in 2004, some 9000 square miles of tropical forest in Brazil were cleared to create pastures. Birds of COSTA RICA - Sep 9, 2008 Peterborough Examiner,Even though the aviary is screened in, the trees, flowers, wind and rain give the impression of being in a real tropical forest. Iconic Costa Rican birds Ghana environmentalists see local cause of climate change - Sep 5, 2008 The Daily Star,...that Ghana is not only a victim of global warming, but also contributing to the problem through excessive harvesting of its once vast tropical forest. CO2 emissions accelerate 400% as world turns to dirtier fuels - Sep 26, 2008 Mongabay.comOverall the annual loss of around 13 million hectares of tropical forest and degradation of millions more generates around 1.5 billion tons of carbon per Source it - Sep 12, 2008 guardian.co.uk,My favourite British honeys include John Mellis's strong, smoky Scottish heather (thescottishgrocer.com), Tropical Forest's delicate borage and complex and Ancient towns in Amazon forest - Aug 30, 2008 Financial Times,Anthropologists from Brazil and the US report today in the journal Science that the Amazonian settlements, now obscured by tropical forest, were once large GIFEX 2008 to promote lesser used species - Sep 19, 2008 Ghana Broadcasting Corporation,...of the exhibition there would be workshops and symposia to address issues on climate change through sustainable management of tropical forest in Ghana. In the gorillas' midst - Sep 9, 2008 Shepparton News,After almost two hours of arduous trekking up steep inclines over rocks and brush, ducking through dense patches of tropical forest, pulling my boots out of Gore, Maathai Address Forestry Offsets - Sep 25, 2008 Ecosystem Marketplace,As Gore and environmental leaders pushed for tropical forest protection to combat climate change, Maathai, the luncheon's other featured speaker who won the In search of the right medicine - Sep 2, 2008 Dispatch Online,THE sub-tropical forest through which the Qolora river meanders en route to the Indian Ocean near Trennery’s on the Eastern Cape coast hoards some of the Congo-Kinshasa: Gorilla Population Increases - Sep 19, 2008 AllAfrica.com,Sustainable forest practices in the Congo Basin lead to the conservation of the world's second largest tropical forest, with a positive effect on Forests break green ground by selling offsets - Sep 6, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle,David Hales, president of the College of the Atlantic in Maine, considered and rejected tropical forest offsets when looking into how to offset his Brazil: Deforestation rises sharply as farmers push into Amazon - Aug 31, 2008 guardian.co.uk,Despite the good news in recent months about the deforestation of the world's largest tropical forest slowing, Minc admitted his country still faced huge Teak wood may be improved by greater genetic diversity - Sep 14, 2008 Mongabay.com...genetic variation, and relatedness among others, but also for managing tropical forest resources that have important commercial value. Oldest Gecko Fossil Ever Found - Sep 2, 2008 Science Daily (press release)The amber fossil was mined in the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar, and during its life the gecko probably lived in a moist, tropical forest with ample Hibou Boutique welcomes author Kay Chornook - Sep 16, 2008 Bay Today,Beginning in 1951, Wolf struggled to tame the dense tropical forest of Monteverde and develop a dairy farm to provide for his growing family. Angkor Wat: scale and majesty - Sep 14, 2008 Stuff.co.nz,Actually, tropical forest might be a slightly more suitable description than jungle, but there are snakes, and I saw one, and it was thrilling, The great escape - Sep 14, 2008 Calgary Herald,Calgarians are fleeing the high cost and stress of city life for a fresh start in Costa Rica Paddling along a river canal through a remote tropical forest Council of Ministers of COMIFAC adopts the declaration of Bangui - Sep 14, 2008 African Press Agency,...of forest ecosystems of the Congo Basin, the second tropical forest on the planet after the Amazon, home to more than half of fauna and flora of Africa. [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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