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KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo is studying a proposal to provide land to China to grow large amounts of palm for oil production in the vast central African country, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday.
http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE66F01920100716
16/07/2010
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By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
Illegal logging can remove vital wildlife habitat, leading to conflict with people. Illegal logging in the world's forests has fallen by nearly a quarter since 2002, according to what claims to be the most thorough analysis yet.
The London-based thinktank Chatham House says consumer pressure, legal restrictions by importing countries and media attention have all contributed.
Some important forest countries such as Brazil, Cameroon and Indonesia have seen much larger cuts, its report says.
But further improvements will be harder to make, it concludes.
15/07/2010
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A British gorilla expert, who escaped Rwanda during the genocide, has been murdered at her home in Cameroon.
By Stephen Adams and Mike Pflanz in Nairobi - The Telegraph
Dr Warren had been living in Cameroon for four years with Mr Nicholas, a fellow British primatologist and director of a gorilla project in the west African country.
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30/06/2010
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Jeremy Hance - mongabay.com - June 24, 2010
The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) has released a resolution urging the UN to change its definition for 'forest', before the controversial definition undermines conservation efforts, biodiversity preservation, carbon sequestration, and the nascent REDD (Reducing Emissions through Deforestation and forest Degradation).
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0624-hance_atbc_forests.html
24/06/2010
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Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:28pm IST By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
(Reuters) - Indonesia needs to quickly settle rules for deciding what is degraded land and spell out how much is available to palm oil and timber firms in order to strengthen investment certainty, an environmental expert says.
Such a move would also boost a $1-billion climate deal signed last month by Indonesia and Norway.
The deal involves a two-year moratorium from January 2011 on conversion of natural forests and peat land with the intent of using degraded land to allow Indonesia's multi-billion dollar palm oil industry to keep expanding.
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49564520100623
23/06/2010
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NEW YORK (June 21, 2010)-The nations of East and Central Africa have developed a 10-year action plan to save one of humankind's closest relatives-the eastern chimpanzee-from hunting, habitat loss, disease, and other threats, according to an announcement made today by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The ambitious plan-titled "Eastern Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan: 2010-2020"-calls for the conservation of 16 core areas which if protected would conserve 96% of the known populations of eastern chimpanzees.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-06/wcs-anc062110.php
21/06/2010
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