Argentine Land Fight Divides Environmentalists, Rights Advocates
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CONCEPCIÃÂN, Argentina -- From  a flat patch of tree-studded savannah, the gaze stretches for miles: across a small pond where a marsh deer stops to drink, and over swampy wetlands where herons gingerly high-step.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Argentina's leftist  president called IMF head Rodrigo Rato an old-style "plantation  owner" for trying to force the South American country to  swallow free-market reforms as a condition for aid.
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Environmentalists, sportsmen and investors wrestle over parcels sold off by timber companies that have fallen on hard times.
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An effort by Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃ¡vez to build a $20 billion pipeline has generated political and environmental controversy at home and abroad.
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Spreading plantations are blamed for a threat to wildlife.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Supporters of Bolivian President Evo Morales clashed on Tuesday with anti-government protesters who accuse him of trying to deprive the opposition of a voice in the drafting of a new constitution, local media reported.
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Hundreds of Argentines protest against a paper pulp mill in Uruguay, the latest round in a row over the mill.
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Miners and tourists alike are contaminating Argentina's caves, say scientists, who warn that fragile underground ecosystems and archaeological sites are at risk.
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A decision to be made this weekend on whether to allow the sale of 60 tons of elephant ivory is exposing rifts between nongovernment agencies dedicated to defending the diversity of plants and animals.
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An Argentine tourist map that put disputed Patagonian glaciers on Argentina's side of the border has inflamed already tense relations with neighbouring Chile.
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More than 8,000 Brazilian landless activists surrounded the central bank on Thursday and threatened a big fight over land next year unless they get more public money to speed up land reform.
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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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The search for new strategies to confront global warming takes center stage in Buenos Aires on Monday as thousands of environmentalists and government policy-makers gather for an international conference on climate change.
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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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Rubber tappers,  fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined  environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion  hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main  tributaries.
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GENERAL PIZARRO, Argentina  - General Pizarro, a  one-telephone town in the northern province of Salta, gained  notoriety last month when environmentalists chained up  bulldozers to protest the sale of a nearby nature reserve.
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Some say stricter measures endanger wildlife, but others argue those concerns are smokescreens for pro-immigrant sentiment