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• Endangered Aye-Aye - Harbinger of Misfortune

  Published: October 15, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Offbeat News, Animal, Animals, Aye Aye, Aye Ayes, Deforestation, Echolocation, Endangered, Extinction, Habitat Destruction, Mammals, Primate, Primates

  in cultivated areas due to deforestation. They’re the only primate to use echolocation — a means of locating an object based on an emitted sound and the reflection back from it — which they use to find grubs in trees. They tap on the wood to locate the larvae, then gnaw holes and insert their elongated middle finger which

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• Primary rain forest is irreplaceable

  Published: November 14, 2007, 4:07 pm

  Tags: Science, Deforestation, Forest Conservation, Rainforests

  As world leaders prepare to discuss conservation-friendly carbon credits in Bali and a regional initiative threatens a new wave of deforestation in the South American tropics, new research from the University of East Anglia and Brazil's Goeldi Museum highlights once again the irreplaceable importance of primary rain forest.

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• FAO: Care Needed as Forests Used for Bio-fuel

  Published: November 20, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Society, Biofuels, Deforestation, Desertification, Forests Protection

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says using more energy from wood could cut greenhouse gases and reduce poverty.

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• New image mosaic that will strengthen global forest monitoring

  Published: November 28, 2007, 12:40 am

  Tags: Science, Deforestation, Forests, Tropical Deforestation

  focus on monitoring tropical deforestation and the critical role that remote sensing systems will play in the development of REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) mechanisms policies designed to compensate rainforest nations for avoiding

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• RI regrets some developed nations` stand on its REDD scheme

  Published: December 8, 2007, 6:24 am

  Tags: Germany, Australia, Bali, Bank, Britain, Britain, Change, Have, Indonesia, Kyoto, Nusa, Climate, Deforestation, Degradation, Developed, Emission, Environment, Funds, Nations, Protocol, Redd, Reduction, Scheme, Unfccc, World

  "Germany, Australia, Britain and the World Bank had not explicitly stated their commitment to the scheme, Agus Purnomo, executive chairman of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)`s organizing committee, said here Friday."It is like being invited...read more

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• Norway gives 375 million euros a year to halt deforestation

  Published: December 9, 2007, 9:37 pm

  Tags: Bali, Carbon, Change, Kyoto, Norway, Oslo, Prime, Billion, Climate, Countries, Deforestation, Developing, Dioxide, Emissions, Environment, Euros, Halt, Jens, Kroner, Million, Minister, Stoltenberg

  Oslo (ANTARA News) - Norway will spend three billion kroner a year to help prevent deforestation in developing countries, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday. "Norway is ready to increase its part in fighting deforestation in developing countries to some three...read more

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• Carbon Neutral Is A Scam, Go Plant A Tree!

  Published: April 27, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Trees, Reforestation, Plant Trees, Deforestation, Carbon Neutral

  Am I the only person who sees through this poop? Everyone's so worried about going carbon neutral, carbon credits and carbon dioxide causing global warming. Hello, trees take carbon dioxide out of the air an replace it with oxygen, an non-greenhouse gas. We don't need fancy companies to sell us carbon credits, or celebrities to sell us on the

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• Trees of life

  Published: May 10, 2008, 9:57 pm

  Tags: Trees, Deforestation, Global Warming

  declined to be named, blamed deforestation of the area for the huge landslides that contributed to a death toll that has risen to 43,399 people and left 31,069 others injured in the AJK districts of Muzaffarabad, Neelum, Bagh, Rawlakot and Palandri. Then there are storm surges. The loss of coastal mangrove forests in parts of south and southeast

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• Newton.. way ahead of his time

  Published: June 24, 2008, 8:00 am

  Tags: Ape, Bushmeat Trade, Chimpanzee, Deforestation, Ecosystem, Extinction, Primate, Seed

  what’s lost in the deforestation and land development contracts. Without the plants regrowing, there will be no fruit or leaves for the animals (mainly monkeys and chimpanzees), nor will there be timber for human use and needs. Without food for the wildlife, they will be forced to forge closer to human populations, causing perhaps

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