Madagascar's Poor See No Benefit from Conservation
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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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The World Bank says fewer people than ever are living in extreme poverty in East Asia and the Pacific due to economic growth of around seven per cent.
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National parks in Africa are failing to protect wildlife within their boundaries, a study suggests.
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Small island nations won world recognition of their climate change fears on Friday but failed to persuade the international community to reinstate trade preferences to protect their fragile economies.
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Botanists discover a species of giant self-destructing palm in Madagascar, quite unlike an ordinary palm tree.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar voted on Sunday in an election expected to return dairy tycoon Marc Ravalomanana to a second term as president of one of the world's poorest countries.
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LISBON, Nov 27 (IPS) - The small West African island nation of Sao TomÃ©  and PrÃ­ncipe is one of the poorest countries in the world, but  there are grounds for hope that conditions there may soon improve  considerably.
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From the lowland gorillas of Africa to corals of the Galapagos Islands, more than 16,300 species are threatened with extinction, the World Conservation Union said on Wednesday in its annual Red List.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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AFRICA/MADAGASCAR - In uno dei paesi piÃ¹ poveri del mondo, le Suore Nazarene gestiscono un ospedale e le Suore Francescane hanno costruito una scuola per bambini dove Ã¨ attivo un ambulatorio medico che offre cure mediche di base Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Il Madagascar Ã¨ uno dei pochi paesi nel mondo dove la mortalitÃ  infantile e materna non Ã¨ diminuita negli ultimi anni: la malnutrizione cronica, l'assistenza medica inesistente, le misere condizioni di vita, la mancanza di un a...
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Madagascar holds its first presidential poll since a 2001 election that brought the island to the brink of civil war.
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Millions of Africans are likely to be worst affected by global warming, a conference on climate change hears.
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Unsustainable levels of the predatory fish are harvested for its jaws, teeth and fins, according to delegates from Australia and Madagascar.
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The loss and degradation of habitat pose the most significant threats to hundreds of Florida wildlife species. Lack of funding and enforcement and staff turnover represent the biggest
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--When it comes to natural resources, whether the issue is endangered species, air, water or federal lands, the unfailing response of the Bush administration has been to seek fewer protections.
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India has far fewer tigers living in the wild than had previously been thought, a major study suggests.