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17/5/2008
Our dying planet... 1 in 3 animals lost in past 35yrs, Mirror
Almost a third of the world's wildlife has been lost in the past 35 years, a report reveals. The number of animals per species fell an average 27 per cent between 1970 and 2005 - with land animals down 25 per cent, marine 28 per ...   
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16/5/2008
Brazil: ‘Stagnation’ Made Brazil’s Environment Chief Resign, New York Times
Marina Silva, the environmental minister who resigned this week, blamed “stagnation” in the government for her decision at a news conference on Thursday and acknowledged that governors in frontline Amazon states were pressing the ...   
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16/5/2008
Biodiversity Loss Puts People At Risk, Science Daily
Future generations face hunger, thirst, disease and disaster if we carry on losing biodiversity. And as biodiversity plummets our use of resources soars - WWF now estimates that biodiversity has declined by more than a quarter in the ...   
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16/5/2008
Brazil Minister Accuses Groups of Exploiting Amazon, Reuters
International concerns expressed after Brazil's environment minister quit this week show that some groups are fronts for exploiting the Amazon's resources, the country's justice minister said on Thursday. "There are parts ...   
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16/5/2008
Don't Blame Us For Hunger, Biofuel Makers Say, Reuters
Biofuel manufacturers at an international gathering in Spain have strenuously denied media charges they are driving up food prices and world hunger. As the world seeks sustainable energy supplies and ways to cut greenhouse gas ...   
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16/5/2008
UN talks seek to safeguard animals and plants, Reuters
Governments will meet in the German city of Bonn from May 19 to 30 to discuss how to safeguard the diversity of life from threats such as pollution and climate change. The U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, which meets ...   
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16/5/2008
US Farm Bill Cracks Down on Timber Trade, Reuters
Congress' new agriculture bill, which looks certain to become law, would tighten rules for lumber imports in an effort to discourage environmentally destructive, illegal logging overseas. The 2008 farm bill, which Congress ...   
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16/5/2008
Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF, Agence France-Presse
The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization. Marine species have been particularly hard hit as the human ...   
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16/5/2008
World Species Dying Out Like Flies Says WWF, Reuters
World biodiversity has declined by almost one third in the past 35 years due mainly to habitat loss and the wildlife trade, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said on Friday It warned that climate change would add increasingly ...   
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16/5/2008
Biodiversity on Earth is declining, United Press International
The WWF, also known as the World Wildlife Fund, says more than a quarter of the Earth's wildlife has been lost during the last 35 years. The organization's Living Planet Index -- produced for the WWF by the Zoological Society of ...   
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16/5/2008
United Kingdom: Charles urges forest logging halt, Post
The halting of logging in the world's rainforests is the single greatest solution to climate change, Prince Charles has said, reports BBC News. He called for a mechanism to be devised to pay poor countries to prevent them ...   
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16/5/2008
UN sets new target of 7 billion trees, One World South Asia
A grassroots campaign to plant trees around the globe has announced that it is raising its target from 1 billion trees to 7 billion trees by 2009, according to the United Nations. The campaign, which is under the patronage of ...   
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16/5/2008
Wildlife populations 'plummeting', BBC
Between a quarter and a third of the world's wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to data compiled by the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%, ...   
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16/5/2008
Warning as species drop by third, Press Association
Populations of animal, bird and fish species have dropped by almost a third since 1970, conservationists have warned. The Living Planet Index, which tracks the fortunes of more than 1,400 species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, ...   
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15/5/2008
Lula Seen Putting Brazil Economy Ahead Of Amazon, Reuters
Hailed as Brazil's first "green president" when he took office, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva appears to have thinner environmental credentials than ever after the resignation of Amazon defender Marina Silva. The former rubber tapper ...   
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15/5/2008
Mankind is the 'Earth's biggest threat', Telegraph
Researchers who analysed 30,000 academic studies dating back to 1970 said man was responsible for changes that ranged from the loss of ice sheets to the collapse in numbers of many species of wildlife. "Humans are ...   
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15/5/2008
Merkel Says Brazilian Biofuels Must Respect Amazon, Reuters
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Brazil on Wednesday to adopt tougher environmental standards in producing biofuels but said rich nations needed to pay up to help protect rain forests and their biodiversity. Brazil is the ...   
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15/5/2008
Myanmar cyclone damage worsened by loss of mangroves: FAO, Agence France-Presse
The destruction of mangrove forests along parts of Myanmar's coast contributed to the damage wreaked by cyclone Nargis, the UN food agency said Thursday. Farmland and fisheries have replaced many mangrove forests, and people have ...   
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15/5/2008
Prince Charles calls for rainforest protection to fight climate change, Mongabay
Ending the destruction of tropical rainforests is the simplest step to helping address climate change, said Prince Charles in an interview with the BBC. Speaking on the BBC's Today program, Charles said he supported the ...   
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15/5/2008
Seeking an Amazon solution, BBC
Seen from a small boat emerging from Puraquequara lagoon into the full flow of the Amazon River, this is a world reduced to water, trees and sky. It's a full three kilometres to the other side and at that distance even the forest ...   
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15/5/2008
World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows, Guardian
Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems. Scientists examined ...   
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15/5/2008
Global warming has changed behaviour of plants and animals over last 40 years, says NASA, Daily Mail
Global warming has altered the behaviour of thousands of species of plants and animals in the last 40 years, the biggest study of its kind suggsts. Scientists from the American space agency Nasa say there are now more than ...   
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14/5/2008
Global warming under way 'earlier', Australian
PLANTS, animals, ice and waters worldwide have all been significantly affected by global warming triggered by human activity, says the first research to link the phenomenon to changes in biological and natural systems. Among the ...   
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14/5/2008
Indonesia: Palm oil firms vow to stop using forests, Jakarta Post
Palm oil companies operating in Indonesia pledged to stop expanding plantations into forests in response to growing global criticism about deforestation and to promote more sustainable products. Executive director of the ...   
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14/5/2008
Indonesia: Papua signs REDD carbon deal to generate income from rainforest protection, Mongabay
The government of the Indonesian province of Papua has entered into an agreement with an Australian financial firm to establish a forestry-based carbon finance project on the island of New Guinea. The project — which could ...   
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