New trees to reclaim Amazon lands
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The government of one of Brazil's Amazonian states plans to reforest areas of land cleared for pasture.
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IQUITOS, Peru -- A few miles downriver from this city in the western Amazon jungle, Andres Alvarado hops off a boat and walks up a muddy path to a hollowed-out log resting on a wooden stand. He beats the log with a stick, sending a series of low-pitched tones into the rain forest.
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New York City under water ... the Amazon rain forest baked by droughts and wildfires ... Himalayan glaciers just a memory.
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By TALES AZZONI  SAO PAULO, Brazil - The theft of a rare Amazon monkey from a Brazilian zoo could harm biologists' efforts to repopulate the endangered species, zoo officials said Wednesday.
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Burning of the Amazon and other forests accounts for three quarters of Brazil&#39;s greenhouse gas emissions and has made the country one of the world&#39;s leading polluters
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By Staff Reports  Members of Brazils Kayapo tribe attend a ceremony Wednesday at the Federation of the Industries of the State of Sao Paulo, where they received the SmartWood certificate for management of 3.7 million acres of Amazon rain forest.  (c) 2006 Tulsa World.
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By MICHAEL ASTOR  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The rate of destruction of the Amazon rain forest is slowing, although ranchers, loggers and soybean farmers are illegally removing thousands of square miles of trees each year, the Brazilian government said Tuesday.
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The Republic of Congo will set aside up to 3,800 square miles (1 million hectares) of land to help preserve elephants, chimpanzees, hippos, crocodiles, and gorillas.
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Three new species of salamander are discovered in a remote forest reserve in Central America.
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A healthy American chestnut tree discovered on a New Hampshire farm may serve as the "mother tree" to bring back a species nearly wiped out by Asian blight.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection yesterday in a region known for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers, and environmentalists.
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A symbol of abundance to the rest of the world, the Amazon is experiencing a crisis of overfishing.
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By NO BYLINE  A CITY woodland is being given a GBP 200,000 makeover with new paths, wardens and thousands of trees.   Work will begin on improving Colinton and Craiglockhart Dells next month thanks to the grant from Forestry Commission Scotland.
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By NATALIE STOREY  Workers preserve forest lands while helping farmers make profits  It wasn't so long ago that farmers and cattle herders in southern Costa Rica, in their efforts to survive, had nearly destroyed part of one of the world's most beautiful rain forests.
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Trees and plants are to be cut down in woodland near Redruth in southwest England after the discovery of a new disease.
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A swath of Amazon rain forest the size of Alabama was placed under government protection Monday in a region infamous for violent conflicts among loggers, ranchers and environmentalists.
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Helping Cool Earth 'keep carbon where it belongs' A new online initiative has come up with a cunningly simple plan to save the world's rainforests - offer them by the acre to concerned netizens whose "purchase" allows swathes of threatened land to be preserved for future generations.â¦