Expropriation to preserve at- risk rain forest
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The federal government and a nonprofit group are buying the land from local farmers to ensure its biodiversity is preserved. BY LISA J. ADAMS /Associated Press.
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Why should we have to spend millions on parks? In my yard, trees grow for free. If you want a hotel in the woods then you aren't seeing nature in a grand way. Try a tent and sleeping bag. You fail to understand undeveloped areas are nature in a grand way.
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BRASILIA, Dec. 4 -- Brazil created the world's largest tropical rain forest preserve Monday in a section of the Amazon scarred by illegal logging and decades of violence between loggers, ranchers, conservationists and land rights activists.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tom Lalley of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778-9544, tom.lalley@wwfus.org   BALI, Indonesia, Feb.
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DEMAND for water and continued development of the Klang Valley and Selangor has left Mother Nature shaking her head. The Lakum Forest Reserve, home to many protected animals and plants of medicinal value, is to be flooded by the Kelau Dam.
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By Kitty Melrose  Samboja Eco Lodge Borneo   Samboja opened last year as part of a conservation project operated by the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation.
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BEING environmentally-conscious is no longer an option for developers.  According to Real Estate and Housing Developers Association (Rehda) president Ng Seing Liang, it's a must if developers want to maintain a competitive edge.
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Los Angeles Times - IQUITOS, Peru &#8212; 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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The damage done to trees by the October Surprise storm was heart- wrenching, and it was clear from the beginning that many resources would have to be pooled to help the urban forest recover. That effort got a huge boost recently, HSBC Bank sent $100,000 to the Olmsted ReLeaf campaign.
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A UN meeting on endangered species could help secure the survival one of humanity&#39;s closest living relatives, the orang-utan, by saving its forest home from loggers, a leading expert said on Tuesday.
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President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that rich nations should pay poorer countries to preserve their forests because the rich are responsible for most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
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By Griscom, Bronson W Daly, Douglas C; Ashton, Mark S  GRISCOM, B. W. (Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT 06511), D. C. DALY (The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY 10458), AND M. S.
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By Alina Simon  KUALA MUDA: Endangered mangrove forests must be preserved by every available means, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
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Science & environment: Scientists hope evidence will save other areas of land given over to timber and oil-palm plantations.
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From the ruins of a failed logging venture in Chile's Tierra del Fuego, an effort to manage and preserve the world's southernmost old-forest wilderness is about to begin.
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Introducing a global water ETF.
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Alberto Pizango Chota saw loggers come to his Indian village in the northern Amazon when he was 7. First they felled the mahogany. Then they returned to cut the cedars. By the time they came back for other hardwoods, there was little left of the forest.