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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The British government should end subsidies for biofuels and instead use the funds to slow destruction of rainforests and tropical peatlands argues a new report issued by a U.K.-based think tank. The study, titled "The Root of the Matter" and published by Policy Exchange, says that "avoided deforestation" would be a more cost-effective way to address climate change, since land use change generates more emissions than the entire global transport sector and offers ancillary benefits including important ecosystem services.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0827-avoided_deforestation_uk.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Markets may soon value rainforests as living entities rather than for just the commodities produced when they are cut down, said a tropical forest researcher speaking in June at a conservation biology conference in the South American country of Suriname. Andrew Mitchell, founder and director of the London-based Global Canopy Program (GCP), said he is encouraged by signs that investors are beginning to look at the value of services afforded by healthy forests.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0818-mitchell_interview_gcp.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA["Turtle carbon" could help protect rainforests and save endangered sea turtles]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Using carbon credits to promote rainforest conservation could help protect endangered sea turtles in some parts of the world, argues a carbon finance expert.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0811-turtle_carbon.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A shift from poverty-driven deforestation to industry-driven deforestation in the tropics may offer new opportunities for forest conservation, argues a new paper published in the journal Trends in Evolution & Ecology.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0805-tree_pr.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporations become prime driver of deforestation, providing clear target for environmentalists]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The major drivers of tropical deforestation have changed in recent decades.  According to a forthcoming article, deforestation has shifted from poverty-driven subsistence farming to major corporations razing forests for large-scale projects in mining, logging, oil and gas development, and agriculture.  While this change makes many scientists and conservationists uneasy, it may allow for more effective action against deforestation. Rhett A. Butler of Mongabay.com, a leading environmental science website focusing on tropical forests, and William F. Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama believe that the shift to deforestation by large corporations gives environmentalists and concerned governments a clear, identifiable target that may prove more responsive to environmental concerns.]]></description>
<link>http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0806-hance_tree_deforestation.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Often overlooked, small wild cats are important and in trouble]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[While often over-shadowed by their larger and better-known relatives like lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars, small cats are important indicators of the health of an ecosystem, says a leading small cat expert who uses camera traps extensively to document and monitor mammals in the wild. Dr Jim Sanderson, a scientist with the Small Cat Conservation Alliance and Conservation International, is working to save some of the world's rarest cats, including the Andean cat and Guigna of South America and the bay, flat-headed, and marbled cats of Southeast Asia.  In the process Sanderson has captured on film some of the planet's least seen animals, including some species that have never before been photographed.  He has also found that despite widespread criticism, some corporate entities are effectively protecting remote wilderness areas.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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