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"Great apes are facing significant challenges to their continued existence, and the Service is committed to aiding their conservation," said Service Director H. Dale Hall.…
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Cocks L. & Bullo K. (2008). The processes for releasing a zoo-bred Sumatran orang-utan Pongo abelii at Bukit Tigapuluh National Park, Jambi, Sumatra. International Zoo Yearbook…
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Can Carbon Trading Save Vanishing Forests
1 April 2008
Can Carbon Trading Save Vanishing Forests Among the many nasty things that humans are doing to the environment, few rank worse than destroying tropical forests.…
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The fate of the tropical forest: Carbon or cattle?
1 April 2008
Small-scale afforestation/reforestation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol will sequester atmospheric carbon and facilitate carbon trading but they face significant…
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Great Ape Trust to gather internationally recognized scientists for 'Decade of the Mind III'
31 March 2008
The topics to be discussed in nine plenary sessions complement Great Ape Trust’s cognitive and behavioral research with nonhuman primates to better understand how a…
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Inappropriate Use and Portrayal of Chimpanzees
14 March 2008
In North America alone, about 2300 chimpanzees live in a variety of settings from accredited zoological parks to laboratories and sanctuaries. However, in 44 of…
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Staples dumps Asia Pulp & Paper over its destruction of virgin rainforestsRhett Butler, mongabay.comFebruary 8, 2008http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0208-staples.html Office supply giant Staples Inc. dropped Asia Pulp &…
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Royal award for work on endangered primates
6 February 2008
By Paul EcclestonLast Updated: 2::01am GMT 6 /2-/2008 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/02/06/eamonkey106.xml The Oxford Brookes team beat hundreds of other entrants in the Environment category and will receive their Queen's…
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