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Showing posts with label deforestation. Show all posts

Showing posts with label deforestation. Show all posts

Feb 22, 2010

Orangutan survival and the shopping trolley

The challenge of saving the orangutan - man's closest relative - from extinction is trickling down to the...

Oct 15, 2009

Use of Forests as Carbon Offsets Fails to Impress In First Big Trial - washingtonpost.com

Image via Wikipedia By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 15, 2009 More than a decade ago in the northeast ...

Jul 25, 2009

As Trees Fall in the Amazon, Fears That Tribes Won’t Be Heard

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL XINGU NATIONAL PARK, Brazil — As the naked, painted young men of the Kamayurá tribe prepare for the rit...

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