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September 11, 2013

Lawmaker Accuses WWF of Instigating Harrison Ford Ministry Row

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September 10, 2013

FAO National Forest Programme Facility Transitions to Landscape Approach

September 2013: Following a decade of allocating hundreds of small grants to strengthen the participation of stakeholders in developing national forest programmes, the National Forest Programme Facility of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) will continue as the Forest and Farm

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22.08.2013

Oil drilling in Yasuni creates tension between Germany and Ecuador

After Ecuador announced it would drill for oil in its pristine Yasuni National Park while blaming international donors for failed conservation efforts, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has now canceled German aid.

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September 2, 2013

Communities need more than money to stop clearing their forests, new research shows

According to a recent study funded by the World Bank and published in Science magazine, tropical land use change was responsible fo

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August 27,2013

Mitigation without adaptation can leave communities vulnerable — study

BOGOR, Indonesia (27 August, 2013) — Understanding the vulnerability of forest-dependent communities is a point of departure for building more effective climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, a study has found.

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6 August 2013

Large trees play key role in tropical forest biomass storage – study

BOGOR, Indonesia (6 August, 2013) – A large-scale study has found that a handful of big trees store up to half the above-ground biomass in tropical forests, raising implicatio

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13.08.2013

Amazon rainforest seeing slower growth due to animal extinction

Deforestation has led to the extinction of large mammals across the Amazon rainforest, which is now having a marked impact on the growth rates of new trees, according to scientists.

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August 16th, 2013

Wood pellet exports from North America climb 50%

Pellet exports from the two primary pellet-producing regions on the North American continent – the US South and British Columbia – showed no signs of slowing in early 2013, with the rate of growth likely to accelerate in the second half of the year.

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16 August 2013

Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling

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July 07 2013

NGO accuses Rimba Raya of misleading public with false carbon project information

A non-governmental organization said a claim that Rimba Raya Conservation had obtained approval from the Indonesian government for its world’s largest carbon project, on 64,000 hectares of areas in Indonesia, was in fact untrue.

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by Dr. Radut