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Valuing Ecosystem Services Makes Economic Sense, Experts Report

November 16, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Valuing Ecosystem Services Makes Economic Sense, Experts Report

BRUSSELS, Belgium, November 16, 2009 (ENS) – Decision makers who factor the planet’s multi-trillion dollar ecosystem services into their national and international investment strategies are likely to see far [...]

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Land Use/Forests

INSIGHTS: Death at Dawn in a Peruvian Mining Camp

November 13, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on INSIGHTS: Death at Dawn in a Peruvian Mining Camp

By Alejandro Zegarra Pezo

PIURA, Peru, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – It is four in the morning on Sunday, November 1 in the paramo and cloud forest of Huancabamba, [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Message of Merida: Saving Wild Places Will Save the Planet

November 13, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Message of Merida: Saving Wild Places Will Save the Planet

 

By Greg Harman

MÉRIDA, Mexico, November 13, 2009 (ENS) – For the first time in decades, the eggs of endangered sea turtles buried on a small strip of [...]

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Land Use/Forests

WILD9: Wilderness and Water Promises in the Land of the Maya

November 10, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on WILD9: Wilderness and Water Promises in the Land of the Maya

 

By Greg Harman

MÉRIDA, Mexico, November 10, 2009 (ENS) – Archeologist Richard Hansen, an expert in early Mayan civilization, studies human culture down to the microscopic level. And [...]

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Food

Rich Countries Feeding on Poor Countries’ Farmland

November 2, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Rich Countries Feeding on Poor Countries’ Farmland

 

By Haider Rizvi

NEW YORK, New York, November 2, 2009 (ENS) – Investors from capital-rich nations that cannot produce enough food for their own consumption are squeezing small [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Queensland National Park Handed Back to Aboriginal Owners

October 26, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Queensland National Park Handed Back to Aboriginal Owners

 

KOWANYAMA, Queensland, Australia, October 26, 2009 (ENS) – The historic first return to indigenous owners of an Australian national park in the state of Queensland took place Friday [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Bush-era Public Land Mining Regulations Illegal, Lawsuit Claims

October 20, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Bush-era Public Land Mining Regulations Illegal, Lawsuit Claims

 

WASHINGTON, DC, October 20, 2009 (ENS) – Two Bush-era regulations that relaxed limits on the dumping of mine waste and removed the mining industry’s obligation to compensate the [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Conservationists Campaign to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay From Giant Mine

October 14, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Conservationists Campaign to Save Alaska’s Bristol Bay From Giant Mine

 

LOS ANGELES, California, October 14, 2009 (ENS) – The Natural Resources Defense Council is mounting a new campaign to save Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the world’s most productive salmon [...]

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Land Use/Forests

Uganda Trees First in Africa to Count as CO2 Emissions Reductions

October 6, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on Uganda Trees First in Africa to Count as CO2 Emissions Reductions

 

KAMPALA, Uganda, October 6, 2009 (ENS) — Pines and a mix of native African trees will soon cover what is now grassland within Uganda’s Rwoho Central Forest Reserve, [...]

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Gov/Politics

‘Show Me’ State Governor Showcases State Parks

October 5, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on ‘Show Me’ State Governor Showcases State Parks

 

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, October 5, 2009 (ENS) – Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has a new project in the works – to restart the state’s declining tourism industry by [...]

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Land Use/Forests

U.S. Forest Service Plans for California National Forests Ruled Illegal

October 2, 2009 Jim Crabtree Comments Off on U.S. Forest Service Plans for California National Forests Ruled Illegal

 

SAN FRANCISCO, California, October 2, 2009 (ENS) – U.S. Forest Service management plans for four Southern California national forests do not adequately protect those forests’ wildest landscapes, a [...]

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