Rainforest activists hope slaying spurs action
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- As mourners laid her bullet-riddled body to rest yesterday, environmentalists and colleagues of slain missionary Dorothy Stang seesawed between fragile optimism and angry skepticism over a question they had hoped never to consider.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status.
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Campaigners petition the UN to take urgent action to protect iconic natural sites from climate change.
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VILLAGERS campaigning to save the trees in thei
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Some gay activists want to track down those who engage in risky behavior and try to stop them before they can infect others.
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Scientists and conservationists called on Pacific countries Friday to step up efforts to protect leatherback turtles that are on the brink of extinction.
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For the first time in three decades,  critics of the Endangered Species Act are building momentum to  rewrite the law implemented to save America's threatened flora  and fauna, from the star cactus to the grizzly bear.
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Activists storm an art gallery in Glasgow in protest at what they claim is the use of rainforest timber.
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Not far from a hillside where several mountain gorillas shot dead last summer lie buried, park ranger Innocent Mburanumwe peers across a primordial canopy of treetops into what may be the most dangerous game reserve on earth.
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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new status to protect them from unsustainable logging.
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The idea of destroying a  swathe of rainforest, home to hundreds of rare species, to  clear land for a sugar plantation is an environmentalist's  worst nightmare.
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EDMONTON (CP) - Climbing ropes will soon take its place alongside news releases as eco-activists seek to bring a more flamboyant style to Alberta's environmental movement.
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As union activists have fallen by the hundreds in Colombia, labor rights groups and some members of the U.S. Congress have promised to do something about the violence.
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A scheme to offer nations an economic incentive to protect tropical forests is vital in the battle against climate change.
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BANGKOK, Thailand (DPA): Activists from the Greenpeace environmentalist group on Wednesday handcuffed themselves to the gates of the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok to protest Malaysia&#39;s &quot;laundering&quot; of ramin, a protected hardwood found primarily in
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LA LOMA, Colombia -- In 2001, paramilitary hit men pulled three union leaders off buses in this roasting-hot swath of northeastern Colombia and shot them dead. In a shadowy conflict where gunmen often kill union activists, the slaying generated little attention, even as the dead men's families ac...
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Tree farmer Kent Hinson says he is out on a limb when it comes to his pro-environment view. &quot;Most foresters in general look at the environmentalists as an adversary, as a group