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World Must Pay Poorer Nations to Keep Forests - Stern

26 March 2007

World Must Pay Poorer Nations to Keep Forests - Stern INDONESIA: March 26, 2007 JAKARTA - A major UN conference on global warming in December… Read more...

Gorillas benefit from Congo ceasefire

23 March 2007

Augustin Kambale squatted on his haunches, eyes down, and edged through the thick bush towards the brooding silverback.Under threat: more than half the world's mountaingorilla… Read more...

Friends of the Earth and Ape Alliance's Palm Oil Campaign wins Observer Food Monthly award

22 March 2007

Friends of the Earth and Ape Alliance's Palm Oil Campaign wins Observer Food Monthly award Mar 22 2007 Friends of the Earth and Ape Alliance… Read more...

World first: Great Ape trial in Austria

21 February 2007

In a groundbreaking case at the Mödling district court, south of Vienna, Austria, a judge is to rule whether a chimp deserves a legal guardian.The… Read more...

Globalization & Great Apes: Illegal Logging Destroying Last Strongholds of Orangutans in National Parks

7 February 2007

The report says that natural rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo are being cleared so rapidly that up to 98% may be destroyed by 2022 without… Read more...

Ebola outbreaks kill 25% of world's gorillas

12 January 2007

The Ebola virus, a nasty hemorrhagic fever that causes massive organ failure and bleeding, is killing thousands of endangered gorillas across Central African forests… Read more...

A New Initiative to Use Carbon Trading for Tropical Forest Conservation

21 December 2006

I describe a new initiative, led by a coalition of developing nations, to devise a viable mechanism for using carbon trading to protect old-growth tropical… Read more...

Comparison of treatment effects between animal experiments and clinical trials: systematic review

15 December 2006

Perel, P., Roberts, I., Sena, E., Wheble, P., Briscoe, C., Sandercock, P., Macleod, M., Mignini, L. E., Jayaram, P., Khan, K. S. (2006). Comparison of… Read more...