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Science & environment: Project billed as future model for responsible mining in developing world threatens biodiversity and increasing poverty, conservationists say.
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HAITIâS interim prime minister has accused ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide of directing violence from exile. Gerard Latortue has also claimed that the South African government hosting Aristide is violating international law.
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The people of Mahatsara village do not understand why they are forbidden from burning down the wild forests of eastern Madagascar.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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ANDRINGITRA NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- Martin Randriantsoa, a nature guide, stopped at a sacred waterfall and stuck his hand into a cold, clear pool. Underneath a rock, he fished out a Malagasy crayfish, plentiful in these streams, but a species found only on this island nation. He watched the crayfish walk across his palm before releasing it.
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IFOTAKA, Madagascar  - Manahira Mahateraka  communicates with the dead.
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Congo's police and fractious army have been accused of involvement in rampant elephant poaching that threatens to wipe them out from a world heritage site in the east of the former Zaire, a new study has warned.
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Venezuela's foreign minister on Wednesday rejected accusations by U.S. Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice that President Hugo Chavez's government is meddling in the affairs of neighboring countries.
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At least 11 people are thought to  have died after Madagascar was hit by Cyclone Ivan, a senior  humanitarian official said on Monday, and the storm is also  threatening Mozambique.
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AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - ÂLa situazione Ã¨ sotto controllo. Si cerca ora di tornare alla normalitÃ Â dicono fonti locali dopo il tentativo di pronunciamento militare Antananarivo (Agenzia Fides)- Sembra rientrato il tentativo di pronunciamento militare in Madagascar (vedi Fides 18 novembre 2006). ÂIl generale Randrianafidisoa, detto Âgenerale FidyÂ non Ã¨ riuscito a mobilitare dietro di sÃ© le truppe alle quali ave...
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Losses for the global insurance industry from the devastating earthquake and tsunami waves in Southeast Asia are likely to be sharply below claims from the hurricanes in Florida earlier this year, as the ...
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Normally, transportation routes through wilderness are frowned on by conservationists. But a newly restored railroad in Madagascar is persuading locals not to slash and burn the surrounding landscape.
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By S.J  I REFER to the report "The life drains out of Pedu Lake" (NST, Jan 31).   The failure of the resorts at Pedu Lake has little or nothing to do with the discovery of old graves, lack of promotion or remoteness as claimed.
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Excerpt from report by Mwinyi Sadallah entitled "Unguja and Pemba islands threatened with..." published by Tanzanian newspaper The Guardian website on 6 June  Zanzibar government has cautioned that the islands of Unguja and Pemba are likely to be submerged due to global glacier melting.
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MANTADIA, Madagascar  - The people of Mahatsara  village do not understand why they are forbidden from burning  down the wild forests of eastern Madagascar.
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Regional countries and organisations clash over the location of an Indian Ocean tsunami early warning system.
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A pro-Russian breakaway region in Georgia said on Saturday it believed a Georgian plane crashed over its territory this week and dismissed Georgia's accusation that a Russian aircraft had violated its airspace.