Plan agreed to save Anne Frank tree from the axe
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Dutch officials and conservationists have reached a deal to save the tree that brought comfort to Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis, prolonging its life by up to 15 years.
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As Kevin Houde wielded the saw, his 4-year-old son Cameron squatted on the ground beside him. Working as a team, they made a clean cut at the base of the 7-foot tree that will mark the Christmas season in their home this year.
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A fund set up to save an ailing tree that once brought comfort to Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis has got off to a good start, the foundation behind the project said on Thursday.
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Mexico and a U.S. environmental group agreed on a plan to protect 370,000 acres of tropical forest on the Yucatan Peninsula in what officials said Friday was the largest conservation project in the country's history.
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Rival groups in Ivory Coast have agreed to a peace plan put forward by the South African President Thabo Mbeki. Government, Opposition and rebel leaders in Ivory Coast have endorsed the deal.
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BANGKOK: The global treaty regulating trade in threatened wildlife moved to protect ramin, the Asian hardwood whose forests and their inhabitants have been devastated by rampant commercial logging.
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DEMOLITION of a landmark former brewery got und
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Thousands of trees will be planted at the fire-ravaged birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games to restore the area ahead of the Beijing 2008 flame-lighting ceremony in March, officials said Tuesday.
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By Pam Firmin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 10--BILOXI -- Lutherans working to help rebuild Katrina-damaged homes passed their leadership torch -- wood from a 500-year-old oak tree -- to Jerilyn Dufresne of Milwaukee on Friday.
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By Dori Berman  The Board of Public Works could decide today the fate of a large residential project proposed for Kent Island, but it remains to be seen whether Queen Anne's County officials will show up to voice their opinions.
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By Backus, Perry  The Blackfoot Challenge and Nature Conservancy's plan to preserve up to 88,000 acres of Plum Creek Timber Co. lands in and around the Blackfoot Valley took a big step forward late last week.
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DUNCANNON, Pa. - Residents of this central Pennsylvania community are marking the holidays with a 4-foot potted evergreen tree instead of the 20-foot tree that has been used for the past eight years, because of a feud between the borough council and a local business.
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U.S. Trade Representative Susan   Schwab will sign a deal in Ottawa on Tuesday designed to end a   long-running dispute over Canadian lumber exports, the trade   representative's office said in a statement.
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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have unveiled their plans to save The Great North Forest at Newbottle village, between Sunderland and Durham.
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By Tony Spinelli, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--EASTON -- The company that owns much of the protected woodlands in Easton would like to give hikers a chance to enjoy the great outdoors.
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By Lawrence Latane Iii, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Dec. 17--Conservation groups and Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's administration are considering ways to save a 387-acre tract on the Northern Neck that a Girl Scout organization wants to sell.
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By Courtney Flynn, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 8--In the eyes of a Northbrook developer, one centuries-old white oak tree on a wooded knoll may be all that stands in the way of a subdivision on land that has been fallow for years.