Farmland Fight Moves to Isolated Argentine Woods
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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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Travel: Under siege from oil companies and loggers, the Huaorani of Ecuador are fighting back - through ecotourism.
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Well-heeled farmers, furious over a proposed law to ban fox hunting, have blocked military from using their land for training exercises.
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Long a model for protecting rural areas, the state faces a property-rights backlash.
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Some of South America's key areas are at risk from soya bean exports, campaigners say.
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The U.S. government has a blunt message for landowners along the Mexico border: Let us on your land or we'll sue. It's the latest battle over a border fence. Eloisa Tamez isn't about to give up land in her family since 1767. "I am not backing down," she told CNN.
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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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Landowners in a North Carolina town have been clear-cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker.
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November 22, 2004 -- BIRCHWOOD, Wis. - A gunfight among deer hunters in Wisconsin yesterday left five people dead and three others injured.
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As 5,000 delegates prepare to leave Buenos Aires after ten days of high-level talks on climate change, floodwaters in Argentina&#39;s northern state of Chaco have forced twice that number out of their homes in recent weeks.
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Forest rules issued this week by the Bush administration are just the latest chapter in a decades-long debate over how to manage millions of acres of public land.
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By Daniel Howden Deputy Residents on the remote Greek island of Skyros are engaged in a last-ditch fight to prevent the construction of one of the world's largest wind farms on a protected nature reserve.
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Residents in three villages apply for an injunction to prevent animal rights extremists entering the area.
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BUENOS AIRES, Aug 10  (IPS) - A group of hooded men armed with shotguns  threatened the leader of a small farmersâ organisation and the  delegate of an international human rights organisation in a  northern Argentine province after they reported an incident of  corruption involving both Argentina and Spain.
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By TOM SHARPE, MAP BY ALEXANDER USATINE  Trees:  Activists post fliers on Web site to oppose project  Junipers and pinon trees would be thinned on 92 acres of city- owned open space along Hyde Park Road under a plan that goes to the Santa Fe City Council this month.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Ecuadoran President-elect Rafael Correa said yesterday Colombia's renewed program to fumigate illegal drug crops on the border was a "hostile act," escalating a diplomatic spat between the South American neighbors.
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By Sara Semelka, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Feb. 11--Soon after residents of Arrow Rock began to network with other activists to try stopping a large pig farm planned two miles outside their historic town, they realized their situation was not unique.