Apes in the News

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

 (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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LEIGH PHILLIPS

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Europe has gone from years of preaching
against the evils of illegally harvested timber to coming just a few steps
away from banning the trade in the world's biggest market for the product
in a landmark move by EU institutions.

In a deal struck on Wednesday (16 June) between the European
Parliament, the EU member states and the European Commission after almost a decade
of campaigning on the issue by environmentalists, the sale of illegal
timber will be banned in the EU from 2012.

18/06/2010
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mongabay.com
June 03, 2010

Indonesia's chief economic minister said on Wednesday that the government will not revoke existing forestry licenses to develop natural forests under a billion dollar conservation deal signed last week with Norway.

"We want to keep to our targets of 40 million tons of crude palm oil," Chief Economic Minister Hatta Rajasa told Reuters. "We will not take away the existing licenses."

http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0603-indonesia_moratorium_confusion.html

03/06/2010
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