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					<title>Parrots of the Caribbean: Birding tourism offers hope for threatened species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/parrots-of-the-caribbean-birding-tourism-offers-hope-for-threatened-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jun 2022 19:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Peter Kleinhenz]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Caribbean, Latin America, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Critically Endangered Species, Disasters, Ecotourism, Endangered Species, Extinction, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Parrots, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Tourism, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JENNINGS MOUNTAIN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines — The destruction was terrible, but the silence was even worse. Yvette Pereira had just walked up the road to the farm she owned on St. Vincent, an island located between St. Lucia, Grenada and Barbados in the Lesser Antilles. “It was like in a nightmare. It was [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JENNINGS MOUNTAIN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines — The destruction was terrible, but the silence was even worse. Yvette Pereira had just walked up the road to the farm she owned on St. Vincent, an island located between St. Lucia, Grenada and Barbados in the Lesser Antilles. “It was like in a nightmare. It was all gray and no green. I heard nothing,” Pereira recounted. A couple of days before, on April 9, 2021, a volcano named La Soufrière erupted and blanketed much of the island in ash. The small river that normally gurgled through Pereira’s property ceased to flow, trees were snapped in two, and several of her farm animals were killed. But it was the parrots that worried Pereira the most. “Normally I drive up, open my door, and am hearing parrots. I thought, where are the parrots?” Pereira had cause for concern. The parrots that she was so accustomed to seeing weren’t the kind of parrots found at the pet shop, or even in most zoos. These were St. Vincent parrots (Amazona guildingii), a dazzling species with colors like a sunset. The species, endemic to this island that measures just 29 kilometers long and 18 across (18 by 11 miles), is one of four parrot species restricted to only one island in the string of islands known as the Lesser Antilles. All are considered threatened species on the IUCN Red List (three are vulnerable and one is critically-endangered). A St. Vincent parrot perches in a tree above&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/parrots-of-the-caribbean-birding-tourism-offers-hope-for-threatened-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-257768</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/the-ups-and-downs-of-marine-protected-areas-examining-the-evidence/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jan 2018 15:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation Effectiveness]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Global, Indonesia, North America, South Africa, Southeast Asia, St. Lucia, Tanzania, and Thailand]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Oceans, Politics, Protected Areas, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[G-1605-150874]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1962, at the First World Conference of National Parks in Seattle, U.S., Carleton Ray, a marine biologist at the University of Virginia, pleaded the cause of setting aside “unmolested” areas in the sea. “Man is using the sea at a great rate, polluting it, developing its borders,” he said in one of the conference [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1962, at the First World Conference of National Parks in Seattle, U.S., Carleton Ray, a marine biologist at the University of Virginia, pleaded the cause of setting aside “unmolested” areas in the sea. “Man is using the sea at a great rate, polluting it, developing its borders,” he said in one of the conference sessions. “If we conservationists and biologists do not think of the planet as one — earth and water — then I ask, who will? If we do not press for marine as well as terrestrial sanctuaries and for regulations over our marine activities, then I ask again, who will?” This plea to begin establishing marine protected areas gained momentum over decades. At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, for instance, countries agreed to maintain marine biodiversity by establishing networks of marine protected areas. Many scientists also began presenting evidence that fishing was causing the world’s fish stocks to collapse: Overfishing was pushing many marine species toward extinction and destroying or altering marine habitats. Creating marine protecting areas, they stressed, was the best approach to addressing this degradation of the marine environment. In 2004, the world’s governments adopted their first tangible international target under the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): They committed to conserving at least 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2012. But when the coverage remained below 2 percent in 2010, the CBD extended the deadline to 2020. Where there were only about 430 marine protected areas as of 1985, today there are more than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/the-ups-and-downs-of-marine-protected-areas-examining-the-evidence/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-203175</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How important is corporate social responsibility to building a green economy?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/important-corporate-social-responsibility-building-green-economy/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 May 2016 20:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Barbados, Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and Trinidad And Tobago]]>
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							<![CDATA[Business, Conservation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporations, Economics, Environment, Green, Sustainability, and Sustainable Development]]>
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							<![CDATA[Building a truly sustainable economy is not all about development without environmental destruction. Though that is of course a central component of sustainability, the United Nations Environment Programme, for instance, defines a “green economy” as “one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. It is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Building a truly sustainable economy is not all about development without environmental destruction. Though that is of course a central component of sustainability, the United Nations Environment Programme, for instance, defines a “green economy” as “one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. It is low carbon, resource efficient, and socially inclusive.&#8221; As developing countries and civil society organizations are now working to usher in green economies around the world, the role of the private sector is receiving increased scrutiny. A crucial question that must be answered is how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) platforms can be used more effectively as a development tool that not only supports broader environmental standards but also helps alleviate poverty, ensure environmental justice, and improve standards of living for all. A study published in the journal Sustainable Development in March found that governments and civil society have a large role to play, to be sure, but building a green economy relies in many ways on the core business philosophies of the relevant private sector players. “[B]uilding a green economy won’t happen overnight and won’t happen without private sector commitment,” Indiana University Northwest’s Kalim Shah, the study’s lead author, said in a statement. “We’ll need the business sector to commit now and stay the course over a long term horizon.” According to Shah, “our research shows that the strongest indicator of such commitment is a well entrenched, internally driven core ‘green’ business philosophy… and this does&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/important-corporate-social-responsibility-building-green-economy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-186318</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Meet the world&#8217;s rarest snake: only 18 left</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/meet-the-worlds-rarest-snake-only-18-left/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Jul 2012 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Caribbean and St. Lucia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Green, Herps, In-situ Conservation, Invasive Species, Islands, Reptiles, Snakes, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[World&#8217;s rarest snake: Saint Lucia racer. Photo by: G. Guida. It&#8217;s slithery, brown, and doesn&#8217;t mind being picked up: meet the Saint Lucia racer (Liophis ornatus), which holds the dubious honor of being the world&#8217;s most endangered snake. A five month extensive survey found just 18 animals on a small islet off of the Caribbean [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[World&#8217;s rarest snake: Saint Lucia racer. Photo by: G. Guida. It&#8217;s slithery, brown, and doesn&#8217;t mind being picked up: meet the Saint Lucia racer (Liophis ornatus), which holds the dubious honor of being the world&#8217;s most endangered snake. A five month extensive survey found just 18 animals on a small islet off of the Caribbean Island of Saint Lucia. The snake had once been abundant on Saint Lucia, as well, but was decimated by invasive mongooses. For nearly 40 years the snake was thought to be extinct until in 1973 a single snake was found on the Maria Major Island, a 12-hectare (30 acre) protected islet, a mile off the coast of Saint Lucia (see map below). After catching and tagging 10 individuals, scientists now believe 18 may survive in total. The island is free of the mongoose that have killed off the population of Saint Lucia. Non-venomous, the Saint Lucia racer feeds on local lizards. &#8220;It was a huge relief to confirm that a population of the racer still survives,&#8221; Matthew Morton, Eastern Caribbean Program Manager for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (DWCT), said in a press release, &#8220;but that relief is tempered by the knowledge of how close we still are to losing it forever.&#8221; The DWCT is working with Fauna &#038; Flora International, the Saint Lucia National Trust, and the Saint Lucia Forestry Department to save the species with additional funding support from the Balcombe Trust, the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund and the U.S. Fish &#038; Wildlife&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/meet-the-worlds-rarest-snake-only-18-left/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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