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					<title>War exacerbates long-standing irrigation crisis for Sudan farmers</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/war-exacerbates-long-standing-irrigation-crisis-for-sudan-farmers/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Mar 2026 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Albashir Dahab]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, North Africa, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Energy, Environment, Farming, Food, Food Industry, Natural Resources, Renewable Energy, Solar Power, and Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[In happier times, Mohamed Ahmed grows sorghum, lentils and beans on three feddans of land in Gezira state. But for more than a year, no irrigation water has reached the 1.2 hectares (3 acres) he cultivates in the Managil section of Sudan’s vast Gezira irrigation scheme. He spends his time clearing weeds, repairing field boundaries [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In happier times, Mohamed Ahmed grows sorghum, lentils and beans on three feddans of land in Gezira state. But for more than a year, no irrigation water has reached the 1.2 hectares (3 acres) he cultivates in the Managil section of Sudan’s vast Gezira irrigation scheme. He spends his time clearing weeds, repairing field boundaries and preparing the soil in case water returns. The canals have been dry since May 2024. “I waited for the water as I always did,” the 38-year-old tells Mongabay by phone, “but nothing came. Two full seasons were lost. I even considered leaving farming and searching for work abroad.” Ahmed is one of as many as 4,000 farmers in the Managil section who face ruin. The Gezira Scheme spans nearly 890,000 hectares (2.2 million acres), pumping water from the Nile to farmers through a network of canals fed by the century-old Sennar Dam. According to irrigation engineer Abdullah Al-Haj, until 2005, the project’s administrators regulated water levels and flow and coordinated maintenance of the of the main pumps and canals. View of the Gezira Irrigation Scheme from space. Image by NASA Johnson via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0). However, in 2005, operation of the irrigation scheme was partially privatized. New legislation — and a 2014 amendment — emphasized administrative and financial independence, granting farmers freedom to choose which crops to grow and requiring them to establish water user associations. Legally, the associations have the authority to manage and maintain sections of the Gezira Scheme, but in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/war-exacerbates-long-standing-irrigation-crisis-for-sudan-farmers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-315863</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Satellite images identify vulture breeding colonies by their droppings</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/satellite-images-identify-vulture-breeding-colonies-by-their-droppings/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/satellite-images-identify-vulture-breeding-colonies-by-their-droppings/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2026 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, Chad, East Africa, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Birds, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Poaching, Poisoning, Predators, Raptors, Scavengers, Vultures, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Populations of Rüppell’s vultures have fallen by more than 90% over the past four decades. Knowing exactly where these critically endangered birds breed can allow conservationists to put protective measures in place. But Rüppell’s historically occupied a vast swathe of West, Central and East Africa; finding their remaining colonies is a daunting task. A team [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Populations of Rüppell’s vultures have fallen by more than 90% over the past four decades. Knowing exactly where these critically endangered birds breed can allow conservationists to put protective measures in place. But Rüppell’s historically occupied a vast swathe of West, Central and East Africa; finding their remaining colonies is a daunting task. A team of researchers says it has successfully tested a way to find vulture colonies remotely, pinpointing dozens of potential sites across seven countries using open-access satellite imagery. The vultures helped. Like other cliff-nesting birds, their droppings lavishly daub cliff faces below their nests with whitewash. Bulgarian ornithologist Ivaylo Angelov, zoomed in on satellite images of mountainous areas across more than 6 million square kilometers (2.3 million square miles), seeking out cliffs over 20 meters (65 feet) high as well as sites documented in old bird atlases of the region. Ivaylo Angelov studies a Rüppell’s vulture nesting colony in Ethiopia in 2009. Image courtesy of Nikolay Terziev. Angelov and his colleagues pinpointed 232 previously undocumented nesting sites. Most of these were in Sudan, South Sudan and Chad, but they found others in the Central African Republic, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. The work took weeks but was “immensely satisfying.” “I love geography, I love travel, and it was an absolute joy for me to zoom in and check all these incredible mountains,” Angelov says. “I had the feeling that I’m there.” In the region surrounding Sudan’s Jebel Marra mountains, in the southwest of the country, the team located&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/satellite-images-identify-vulture-breeding-colonies-by-their-droppings/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-315248</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How the Sahel junta is responding to climate change amid political isolation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/how-the-sahel-junta-is-responding-to-climate-change-amid-political-isolation/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 Dec 2024 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Robert Bociaga]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sahel, Sudan, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environment, Flooding, Governance, Human Migration, Impact Of Climate Change, and Politics]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the first light pierced through storm clouds, swollen rivers spilled over their banks, sweeping through villages across the Sahel. In countries ranging from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to Nigeria, Chad and Sudan, families scrambled to salvage belongings as muddy water filled their homes. Along the riverbanks, farmers waded through flooded fields, trying desperately [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the first light pierced through storm clouds, swollen rivers spilled over their banks, sweeping through villages across the Sahel. In countries ranging from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso to Nigeria, Chad and Sudan, families scrambled to salvage belongings as muddy water filled their homes. Along the riverbanks, farmers waded through flooded fields, trying desperately to rescue their crops and animals. This year’s rainy season in the Sahel, from July to September, turned roads into rivers and villages into islands, as the relentless rains showed no sign of easing. These scenes, as surreal as they are tragic, are a stark reminder of the Sahel&#8217;s growing vulnerability to climate change. Lying just south of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel region has long grappled with extreme weather, but recent changes in rainfall patterns have pushed communities to the brink. This year, rainfall in parts of the region has surged to levels many times exceeding the historical average, transforming the landscape into a vast, inundated expanse. Satellite images reveal the devastating toll: tens of thousands of hectares of cropland across the region submerged, and millions displaced. Flooding aftermath which includes damages facilities and submegerd houses. area. On September 10, 2024, Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State, in Nigeria, experienced devastating flooding due to the overflow of the Alau Dam, which connects to the river flowing from Cameroon. Thousands of residents were displaced, and many lives were lost in this tragic event. Image courtesy of Mercy Corps. In Mali, the Niger River recently burst&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/how-the-sahel-junta-is-responding-to-climate-change-amid-political-isolation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-292340</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate change fuels African floods that hit harder in vulnerable regions</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/climate-change-fuels-african-floods-that-hit-harder-in-vulnerable-regions/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Dec 2024 07:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fanta Mabo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Flooding, and Impact Of Climate Change]]>
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							<![CDATA[Extreme rainfall recorded in Sudan, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad this year marks a heightened stage in Africa&#8217;s climatic vulnerability. According to research by World Weather Attribution (WWA), such floods, which killed roughly 2,000 people and displaced millions more in recent months, are increasingly frequent events linked to anthropogenic global warming. The WWA team has [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Extreme rainfall recorded in Sudan, Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad this year marks a heightened stage in Africa&#8217;s climatic vulnerability. According to research by World Weather Attribution (WWA), such floods, which killed roughly 2,000 people and displaced millions more in recent months, are increasingly frequent events linked to anthropogenic global warming. The WWA team has used observational data and climate models to demonstrate that the probability and intensity of extreme precipitation in these regions have increased, and these events are no longer rare. “Due to high temperatures, the probability of such extreme precipitation has doubled, with an increase in intensity of around 10%. This means that even rainfall once considered normal can now cause catastrophic effects,” Izidine Pinto, researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and lead author of WWA research published in October, told Mongabay in an interview. The study, which focuses on Sudan, is an example of an “extreme event attribution,” in which scientists determine the degree to which weather events are influenced by climate change. This report follows on the heels of WWA research published in 2022 examining “nearly identical’’ flooding conditions in the wider region that year. WWA researchers note that socioeconomic and political factors in the region intensify the situation. While climate change had a distinct role in the flooding, “The devastating impacts were further exacerbated by the proximity of human settlements, infrastructure (homes, buildings, bridges), and agricultural land to flood plains, underlying vulnerabilities driven by high poverty rates and socioeconomic factors (e.g. gender, age,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/climate-change-fuels-african-floods-that-hit-harder-in-vulnerable-regions/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-291499</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As the Horn of Africa heats up, the risks of insecurity are rising (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/as-the-horn-of-africa-heats-up-the-risks-of-insecurity-are-rising-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Mar 2022 16:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Giovanna KuelePeter SchmidtRobert Muggah]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sahel, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Climate Change, Commentary, Disasters, Drought, Environmental Refugees, Food, food security, Resource Conflict, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity. Many social scientists theorize that climate disruption is a “conflict multiplier.” To residents of the Greater Horn of Africa, the relationship is not theoretical. Assailed by endemic poverty, food insecurity and armed conflict, the Greater Horn is already facing a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity. Many social scientists theorize that climate disruption is a “conflict multiplier.” To residents of the Greater Horn of Africa, the relationship is not theoretical. Assailed by endemic poverty, food insecurity and armed conflict, the Greater Horn is already facing a host of preexisting conditions. With some of the fastest-warming latitudes on the planet, the fortunes and stability of this region of 365 million people now look to be at the mercy of weather-driven mayhem. Yet the threats posed by a changing climate to the world’s poorest countries are still side-stepped in the top-tier of global diplomacy. Even before Russia invaded its neighbor, Ukraine, the Security Council member vetoed the first ever climate security resolution at the United Nations Security Council. China abstained, and while India lacks veto power, it too demurred, apparently in fear of opening a meteorological Pandora’s box to big power intervention. Countries like Ireland, Niger and 113 other UN member states who backed the resolution are likely to keep the issue on the geopolitical agenda. The visualization of the risks facing the Horn was developed by Carnegie Mellon University&#8217;s CreateLab and the Igarape Institute Ultimately, tackling the most significant global threat of our era is being left in large part to those at the sharp end of the climate emergency. Yet that lopsided burden might just be an opportunity. Nearly five months since the COP26 climate communion in Glasgow, some of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/as-the-horn-of-africa-heats-up-the-risks-of-insecurity-are-rising-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-254218</doi>				</item>
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					<title>150 years after being discovered, African monkey with handlebar moustache becomes its own species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/150-years-after-being-discovered-african-monkey-with-handlebar-moustache-becomes-its-own-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Mar 2018 10:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Ethiopia, Sudan, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Environment, Mammals, Monkeys, New Discovery, Primates, Rediscovered Species, Species Discovery, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[An African monkey first described to science more than 150 years ago has now been elevated to full species status. The Blue Nile patas monkey is found in the Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia as well as in eastern Sudan. Its range is geographically distinct from that of other patas monkeys, as Sudan’s Sudd swamp [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An African monkey first described to science more than 150 years ago has now been elevated to full species status. The Blue Nile patas monkey is found in the Blue Nile basin of Ethiopia as well as in eastern Sudan. Its range is geographically distinct from that of other patas monkeys, as Sudan’s Sudd swamp region and the Ethiopian highlands isolate the Blue Nile patas in the extreme northeast end of patas monkeys’ known distribution range. Patas monkeys are ground-dwellers and the fastest runners amongst all primates, capable of reaching more than 30 miles per hour. They were, up until now, considered to be one species, Erythrocebus patas — the only species within the genus Erythrocebus. Or at least it was the only recognized species in the genus until Erythrocebus poliophaeus, the Blue Nile patas monkey, was recently elevated to full species status by Spartaco Gippoliti, a scientist with the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group. The Blue Nile patas monkey has a black face and nose as well as a tuft of fur below its nose that looks distinctly like a white handlebar moustache. The species does not, however, have the band between ears and eyes that is characteristic of other patas monkeys. Gippoliti wrote in a recent study published in the journal Primate Conservation that “New data on the distribution and physical appearance of patas monkeys in Ethiopia, together with a review of the old taxonomic literature, allows to us disentangle some questions concerning the taxonomy of Erythrocebus in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/150-years-after-being-discovered-african-monkey-with-handlebar-moustache-becomes-its-own-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-204799</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Food coating made with African ingredient aims to decrease food waste</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/food-coating-made-with-african-ingredient-aims-to-decrease-food-waste/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/food-coating-made-with-african-ingredient-aims-to-decrease-food-waste/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 May 2015 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lois Parshley]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and Sudan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Environment, Food, Food Waste, Global Environmental Crisis, and Green]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers at the Center of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB) in Malaysia test a preservative coating made out of gum arabic that they hope will help reduce food waste in developing nations. Photo by: CEPB. In sub-Saharan Africa, for every tomato or cassava eaten, one spoils. Up to half of all fruits and vegetables are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers at the Center of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB) in Malaysia test a preservative coating made out of gum arabic that they hope will help reduce food waste in developing nations. Photo by: CEPB. In sub-Saharan Africa, for every tomato or cassava eaten, one spoils. Up to half of all fruits and vegetables are wasted before they make it to a plate. Lack of refrigeration or stable electricity, as well as long and unpredictable supply chains, make it difficult to keep food fresh. But a new food coating that relies on gum arabic, a regionally produced tree sap, might help solve the problem. Concern about post-harvest waste — food that goes bad between the time it&#8217;s harvested and when it&#8217;s sold — is an issue not only in Africa, but in many places where farmers work small plots. That&#8217;s why food scientist Ali Asgar researches practical ways to preserve produce. For the last two years, Asgar has worked to design a solution at the Center of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham&#8217;s Malaysia campus. The resulting safe, permeable coating keeps tomatoes fresh for up to 20 days, even at temperatures of 68 degrees Fahrenheit. Coating food in a preservative layer isn&#8217;t new. In developed countries, fruits like apples are often sold layered in wax for similar reasons. But Asgar&#8217;s edible gum arabic solution costs just a few cents per kilogram, has no taste, and can be used on a variety of fruits and vegetables. Gum arabic&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/05/food-coating-made-with-african-ingredient-aims-to-decrease-food-waste/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-23692</doi>				</item>
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					<title>African militias trading elephant ivory for weapons</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/african-militias-trading-elephant-ivory-for-weapons/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Jun 2013 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kara Moses]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Central Africa, Central African Republic, China, Democratic Republic Of Congo, East Africa, South Sudan, Southeast Asia, Sudan, Thailand, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conflict, Crime, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Ivory, Law, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Poaching, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, War, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) is using lucrative elephant poaching for ivory to fund its activities, according to a report published on Tuesday. Eyewitness accounts from park rangers, Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) escapees and recent senior defectors report that the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, who is wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) is using lucrative elephant poaching for ivory to fund its activities, according to a report published on Tuesday. Eyewitness accounts from park rangers, Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA) escapees and recent senior defectors report that the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony, who is wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, ordered African forest elephants to be killed in Garamba national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the tusks sent to him. The defectors said that the LRA transports ivory from the DRC to the Central African Republic (CAR), where it is traded with Arab businessmen and officers from the Sudanese armed forces for cash, food, guns, ammunition and medical supplies. &#8220;With ivory prices at record-high levels, trading illegal ivory offers the LRA another way to sustain itself in addition to its habitual pillaging,&#8221; says the report, by the Enough Project, The Resolve, Invisible Children and the Satellite Sentinel Project. &#8220;In recent years, the poaching of African elephants has reached record levels, with IUCN estimates of the global illegal ivory trade more than doubling since 2007. Raw ivory is said to fetch a price of more than $1,300 per pound due to a sharp rise in demand from Asia, particularly among consumers in China and Thailand.&#8221; According to study co-author Jonathan Hutson, the LRA is not the only armed group poaching elephants in central Africa. Garamba park rangers suspect groups from Sudan, South Sudan and Uganda are also involved.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/african-militias-trading-elephant-ivory-for-weapons/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28893</doi>				</item>
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					<title>China plans over 300 dam projects worldwide</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/china-plans-over-300-dam-projects-worldwide/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Dec 2012 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, China, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Myanmar, South America, Southeast Asia, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Dams, Energy, Environment, Green, Greenwashing, Hydroelectric Power, Protests, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report by the NGO, International Rivers, takes an in-depth look at the role China is playing in building mega-dams worldwide. According to the report, Chinese companies are involved in 308 hydroelectric projects across 70 nations. While dams are often billed as &#8220;green energy,&#8221; they can have massive ecological impacts on rivers, raise local [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report by the NGO, International Rivers, takes an in-depth look at the role China is playing in building mega-dams worldwide. According to the report, Chinese companies are involved in 308 hydroelectric projects across 70 nations. While dams are often billed as &#8220;green energy,&#8221; they can have massive ecological impacts on rivers, raise local conflict, and even expel significant levels of greenhouse gases when built in the tropics. &#8220;The Chinese state owned Sinohydro Corporation is now the largest hydropower company in the world. Many Chinese companies involved in the construction of large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam are now taking the lead role in new hydropower projects around the world,&#8221; reads the report which adds that &#8220;the China Export-Import Bank (China Exim Bank) has become a major funder of large dams.&#8221; Nearly half of the dams in question are planned for Southeast Asia, while 28 percent are planned for Africa and 8 percent for Latin America. Since 2008, the number of dams that the Chinese are involved in has grown by 300 percent. Yet many of these projects lack any or stringent environmental and social policies. &#8220;Few Chinese dam builders and financiers have adopted environmental policies in line with international standards,&#8221; the report notes, adding that Chinese companies have been involved with building notorious dams, such as the Gibe III in Ethiopia, the Bukan Dam in Malaysia, the Myitsone Dam in Myanmar, and the Merowe Dam in Sudan. For example, over 50,000 people were forcibly moved&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/12/china-plans-over-300-dam-projects-worldwide/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29890</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Alarm rising over food crisis in Sahel region</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/alarm-rising-over-food-crisis-in-sahel-region/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2012 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sahel, Senegal, South Sudan, Sudan, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, and Impact Of Climate Change]]>
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							<![CDATA[A mother with her severely malnourished child in the Sahel region. Photo: UNICEF/Chad/2012/C Tidey. Warnings over a possible famine in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region are becoming louder and more intense. Abnormal drought, locally high food prices, and regional conflict have ramped up concerns that 18 million people could suffer from malnutrition and starvation as the lean [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A mother with her severely malnourished child in the Sahel region. Photo: UNICEF/Chad/2012/C Tidey. Warnings over a possible famine in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region are becoming louder and more intense. Abnormal drought, locally high food prices, and regional conflict have ramped up concerns that 18 million people could suffer from malnutrition and starvation as the lean season sets in. UNICEF says it needs $238 million to save over a million children from severe malnourishment in the region, but has to date only raised $93 million. &#8220;Across the Sahel we are dealing with multiple needs to save lives and help children, and the Mali crisis has only put more children in danger,&#8221; said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, in a press release. A military coup in Mali has pushed 100,000-200,000 refugees from Mali in to neighboring countries, exacerbating community food shortages. Recent conflict in Nigeria and Syria have further worsened the situation. From January through April, UNICEF says it has treated 250,000 severely malnourished children under the age of five in the region. &#8220;We are frantically increasing resources to meet demand but urgently need more funding. The harsh reality is that we are only at the tip of the iceberg in this emergency. The biggest upsurge in children needing help will be over the coming three months because the region is now in the driest and harshest period of the year,&#8221; Dennis McKinlay, Executive Director at UNICEF New Zealand, says. Another NGO, Save the Children, says it&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/06/alarm-rising-over-food-crisis-in-sahel-region/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30776</doi>				</item>
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					<title>15 million facing food shortages in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/15-million-facing-food-shortages-in-africas-sahel-region/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Mar 2012 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sahel, Senegal, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, and Hunger]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dogon village Songo in Mali, Africa . The Dogon are an ethnic tribe in the Sahel. Photo by: Bigstock. The UN announced yesterday that food security in the Sahel region is deteriorating, putting over 15 million people at risk. Ongoing drought combined with conflict, has pushed the region into a crisis. The situation appears eerily [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dogon village Songo in Mali, Africa . The Dogon are an ethnic tribe in the Sahel. Photo by: Bigstock. The UN announced yesterday that food security in the Sahel region is deteriorating, putting over 15 million people at risk. Ongoing drought combined with conflict, has pushed the region into a crisis. The situation appears eerily similar to last year when Somalia was hit by a devastating famine due to drought and political instability; the famine left an estimated 30,000 children dead. &#8220;This is already an appalling crisis in terms of the scale and degree of human suffering and it will get worse unless the response plans are properly funded,&#8221; John Ging, Director of Operations at the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said in a press release. &#8220;It’s a matter of life or death for millions who are on the brink.&#8221; Instability in Nigeria and Syria have exacerbated the situation, while a military coup in Mali has pushed between 100,000-200,000 refugees into neighboring countries. Sahel nations, such as Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Senegal, Cameroon, Gambia, Nigeria and South Sudan, the world&#8217;s newest nation, are all seen as vulnerable. Response programs to the food crisis are currently underfunded by over 60 percent according to the OCHA, even as a report released in January found that a delayed response to Somalia crisis cost thousands of lives. &#8220;We all bear responsibility for this dangerous delay that cost lives in East Africa and need to learn the lessons of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/15-million-facing-food-shortages-in-africas-sahel-region/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31112</doi>				</item>
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					<title>World&#8217;s newest nation faces prospect of famine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/10/worlds-newest-nation-faces-prospect-of-famine/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Oct 2011 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Disasters, Drought, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, and Hunger]]>
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							<![CDATA[As East Africa reels from a devastating famine, which is hitting Somalia the hardest, there are new fears that another African nation could soon slip into a similar situation. On July 9th of this year, South Sudan became the world&#8217;s newest nation; however a few months later drought, conflict, refugees, and rising food prices could [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As East Africa reels from a devastating famine, which is hitting Somalia the hardest, there are new fears that another African nation could soon slip into a similar situation. On July 9th of this year, South Sudan became the world&#8217;s newest nation; however a few months later drought, conflict, refugees, and rising food prices could push the eastern region of South Sudan into a famine, warned officials from the fledgling nation yesterday. &#8220;Lower harvests due to unreliable rains coupled with the rising food prices world-wide, have created a severe food shortage leaving more than 1.3 million in need of food aid,&#8221; Joseph Lual Acuil, South Sudan’s minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, said in Juba as reported by the Sudan Tribune. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured into the region over the past year according to the UN, straining resources. In addition, late rains and conflict have meant that many agricultural areas are not being utilized. Finally food prices have risen rapidly: Salah Barkawi, local Beja party spokesperson, told the AFP that prices of a staple food, sorghum, have more than doubled recently. In East Africa, officials estimate that 13 million people are threatened by hunger, while 30,000 children have died in the past three months alone. South Sudan borders Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, and some have suggested that food shortages there are a part of the wider problem facing East Africa. Related articles South Sudan&#8217;s choice: resource curse or wild wonder? (07/11/2011) After the people of South&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/10/worlds-newest-nation-faces-prospect-of-famine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31903</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate change may fuel increase in warfare, finds study</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/climate-change-may-fuel-increase-in-warfare-finds-study/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Aug 2011 17:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Indonesia, Peru, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Disasters, Drought, El Nino, Environment, Green, History, Impact Of Climate Change, War, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature study finds Wars twice as likely during hot, dry years Armed men on the island of New Guinea, which has seen its fair share of civil conflict. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Civil war is twice as likely in tropical countries during particularly hot and dry years, according to a new study in Nature. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nature study finds Wars twice as likely during hot, dry years Armed men on the island of New Guinea, which has seen its fair share of civil conflict. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Civil war is twice as likely in tropical countries during particularly hot and dry years, according to a new study in Nature. The researchers found that El Niño conditions, which generally cuts rainfall and raises temperatures in the tropics, may have played a factor in one-fifth of the world&#8217;s total conflicts during the past 50 years. El Niño conditions occur every 3-7 years. While the study did not examine global climate change in conjunction with conflict, the study links a warmer world to a more conflict-prone one, as least in the tropics. &#8220;We can speculate that a long-ago Egyptian dynasty was overthrown during a drought. That’s a specific time and place, that may be very different from today, so people might say, &#8216;OK, we’re immune to that now.&#8217; This study shows a systematic pattern of global climate affecting conflict, and shows it right now.&#8221; Solomon M. Hsiang, the study’s lead author and PhD graduate of sustainable development at the Columbia University&#8217;s Earth Institute, said in a press release. Examining 234 civil conflicts in 175 countries (in which at least 25 people died) from 1950 to 2004, researchers found that climate played an important role in the tropics. Civil conflict occurred about 3 percent of the time during La Niña years (cooler and wetter) in the tropics and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/climate-change-may-fuel-increase-in-warfare-finds-study/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32098</doi>				</item>
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					<title>South Sudan&#8217;s choice: resource curse or wild wonder?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/south-sudans-choice-resource-curse-or-wild-wonder/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jul 2011 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Corporations, Development, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecotourism, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Services, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Green, Mammals, Migration, Mining, Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Predators, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[This commentary was originally published in February, but given that South Sudan has just celebrated independence over the weekend, we thought it apt to re-publish. Oryx and WCS Cessna shadow, Boma National Park. Photo by Paul Elkan and J. Michael Fay. ©2007 National Geographic/ Wildlife Conservation Society. After the people of South Sudan have voted [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This commentary was originally published in February, but given that South Sudan has just celebrated independence over the weekend, we thought it apt to re-publish. Oryx and WCS Cessna shadow, Boma National Park. Photo by Paul Elkan and J. Michael Fay. ©2007 National Geographic/ Wildlife Conservation Society. After the people of South Sudan have voted overwhelmingly for independence, the work of building a nation begins. Set to become the world&#8217;s newest country on July 9th of this year, one of many tasks facing the nation&#8217;s nascent leaders is the conservation of its stunning wildlife. In 2007, following two decades of brutal civil war, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) surveyed South Sudan. What they found surprised everyone: 1.3 million white-eared kob, tiang (or topi) antelope and Mongalla gazelle still roamed the plains, making up the world&#8217;s second largest migration after the Serengeti. The civil war had not, as expected, largely diminished the Sudan&#8217;s great wildernesses, which are also inhabited by buffalo, giraffe, lion, bongo, chimpanzee, and some 8,000 elephants. &#8220;I have never seen wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti,&#8221; said survey leader and renowned conservationist J. Michael Fay in 2007. However, with new nationhood comes tough decisions and new pressures. Multi-national companies seeking to exploit the nation&#8217;s vast natural resources are expected to arrive in South Sudan, tempting them with promises of development and economic growth, promises that have proven uneven at best across Africa. Dubbed the resource curse, many&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/south-sudans-choice-resource-curse-or-wild-wonder/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How do we save Africa&#8217;s forests?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/how-do-we-save-africas-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Jun 2011 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karimeh Moukaddem]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Congo Basin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, carbon, Carbon Offsets, Conservation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Fuelwood, Green, Interviews, Plantations, Poverty Alleviation, Rainforests, Redd, Reforestation, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, and Subsistence Agriculture]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa’s forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa&#8217;s forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa? A new report by The Forest Philanthropy Action Network (FPAN), a non-profit [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa’s forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa&#8217;s forests necessary to mitigate global climate change and ensure environmental stability in Africa? A new report by The Forest Philanthropy Action Network (FPAN), a non-profit that provides research-based advice on funding forest conservation, argues that only the full conservation of African forests will successfully protect carbon stocks in Africa. Focusing on the role of African forests in helping mitigate climate change, the report, Protecting and restoring forest carbon in tropical Africa: A guide for donors and funders is the first to explore methods to protect and restore Africa’s forests. African forests store more carbon that those of Southeast Asia and are at greater risk than the tropical forests of both Asia and Latin America, according to the report. In fact, forests in Africa are being cleared at a rate nearly three times the world average: the continent lost 3.7 million hectares of tropical forest each year between 2000 and 2005. Because carbon is released when trees are burned or felled, deforestation accounts for 10-15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Protecting and restoring forest carbon in tropical Africa “[There seems to be a] belief that Africa’s tropical forests are much less dense than those in Latin America and Asia. The reality is very different – the forests of Sub-Saharan Africa store 171 gigatons of carbon, 35 per cent more than&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/how-do-we-save-africas-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32384</doi>				</item>
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					<title>South Sudan’s tropical forests fast disappearing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/south-sudans-tropical-forests-fast-disappearing/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/south-sudans-tropical-forests-fast-disappearing/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Jun 2011 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karimeh Moukaddem]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Mountains, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Satellite Imagery, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest loss along the edge of Mount Dongotomea in South Sudan is visible from Google Earth. South Sudan’s tropical montane forests are fast disappearing according to new analysis by PRINS Engineering. At current rates, Mount Dongotomea, located in South Sudan’s most biodiverse ecosystem, could be completely stripped of tree cover by 2020. The forests of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest loss along the edge of Mount Dongotomea in South Sudan is visible from Google Earth. South Sudan’s tropical montane forests are fast disappearing according to new analysis by PRINS Engineering. At current rates, Mount Dongotomea, located in South Sudan’s most biodiverse ecosystem, could be completely stripped of tree cover by 2020. The forests of the Imatong Mountains, rising to 10,456 feet (3,187 meters), i in southern South Sudan are part of the Eastern Afro-montane ecosystem, rated by scientists as one of Africa’s biodiversity hotspots. Although the afro-montane forests reach only into limited areas of South Sudan, they offer the soon-to-be new country an estimated half of its plant biodiversity. These forests are home to many endemic and possibly unique species, but scientists have yet to study the region’s species. The Imatong forests have been heavily degraded and deforested, and Mount Dongotomea is now bearing the brunt of clearing that threatens to fragment the ecosystem further. The mountain’s tree cover has been reduced by two-thirds since 1986, and, if deforestation in the area continues, the forests of Mount Dongotomea will also disappear before the end of the decade. Northeast of Mount Dongotomea, the Didinga hills were largely cleared by 1986, and in 2010 small farmers continued deforesting the eastern side of Mount Dongotomea. The Imatong Mountains are critical to Africa’s biodiversity, yet also crucial to the economic development of South Sudan. Deforestation in Sudan is mainly driven by the harvesting of woodfuels and other subsistence needs, and people’s survival will&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/06/south-sudans-tropical-forests-fast-disappearing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32448</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Foreign big agriculture threatens world&#8217;s second largest wildlife migration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/foreign-big-agriculture-threatens-worlds-second-largest-wildlife-migration/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Mar 2011 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Environment, Farming, Food, Grasslands, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Mammals, Migration, Wetlands, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world&#8217;s largest migration in the Serengeti plains—including two million wildebeest, zebra, and Thomson&#8217;s gazelles—has come under unprecedented threat due to plans for a road that would sever the migration route, a far lesser famous, but nearly as large migration, is being silently eroded just 1,370 miles (2,200 kilometers) north in Ethiopia&#8217;s Gambela National [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the world&#8217;s largest migration in the Serengeti plains—including two million wildebeest, zebra, and Thomson&#8217;s gazelles—has come under unprecedented threat due to plans for a road that would sever the migration route, a far lesser famous, but nearly as large migration, is being silently eroded just 1,370 miles (2,200 kilometers) north in Ethiopia&#8217;s Gambela National Park. The migration of over one million white-eared kob, tiang, and Mongalla gazelle starts in the southern Sudan but crosses the border into Ethiopia and Gambela where Fred Pearce at Yale360 reports it is running into the rapid expansion of big agribusiness. While providing habitat for the millions of migrants, Gambela National Park&#8217;s land is also incredibly fertile enticing foreign investment. According to Pearce, Ethiopia has leased 400,000 hectares, much of it within Gambela National Park, to foreign agribusinesses including Karuturi Global Limited of India and Saudi Star owned by billionaire Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al Amoudi. Part of the problem is the park is not quite official. &#8220;It turns out that the park, though marked on maps, has never been formally gazetted. In any case, according to Cherie Enawgaw of the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority, a government agency, the park may have a handful of rangers but it has &#8216;no management plan and no clear indicated boundary,'&#8221; Pearce writes. Currently, the Ethiopian government officially plans to change the borders of the park in order to suit its agricultural development. Yale360 further reports that the foreign agriculture investment is impoverishing locals of the Anuak community,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/foreign-big-agriculture-threatens-worlds-second-largest-wildlife-migration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32868</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As South Sudan eyes independence, will it choose choose to protect its wildlife?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/as-south-sudan-eyes-independence-will-it-choose-choose-to-protect-its-wildlife/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/as-south-sudan-eyes-independence-will-it-choose-choose-to-protect-its-wildlife/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Feb 2011 03:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, South Sudan, and Sudan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Biodiversity, Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Corporations, Development, Economics, Ecosystem Services, Ecotourism, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Services, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Governance, Green, Mammals, Migration, Mining, Oil, Payments For Ecosystem Services, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Predators, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Saving Rainforests, Solutions, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[After the people of South Sudan have voted overwhelmingly for independence, the work of building a nation begins. Set to become the world&#8217;s newest country on July 9th of this year, one of many tasks facing the nation&#8217;s nascent leaders is the conservation of its stunning wildlife. In 2007, following two decades of brutal civil [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After the people of South Sudan have voted overwhelmingly for independence, the work of building a nation begins. Set to become the world&#8217;s newest country on July 9th of this year, one of many tasks facing the nation&#8217;s nascent leaders is the conservation of its stunning wildlife. In 2007, following two decades of brutal civil war, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) surveyed South Sudan. What they found surprised everyone: 1.3 million white-eared kob, tiang (or topi) antelope and Mongalla gazelle still roamed the plains, making up the world&#8217;s second largest migration after the Serengeti. The civil war had not, as expected, largely diminished the Sudan&#8217;s great wildernesses, which are also inhabited by buffalo, giraffe, lion, bongo, chimpanzee, and some 8,000 elephants. &#8220;I have never seen wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti,&#8221; said survey leader and renowned conservationist J. Michael Fay in 2007. However, with new nationhood comes tough decisions and new pressures. Multi-national companies seeking to exploit the nation&#8217;s vast natural resources are expected to arrive in South Sudan, tempting them with promises of development and economic growth, promises that have proven uneven at best across Africa. Dubbed the resource curse, many poor nations have seen their rich, natural resources plundered for the world market, but instead of reaping the financial rewards, money is lost in poorly-made deals or commodity swings, or ends up in the pockets of foreign corporations or corrupt officials, leaving the nation&#8217;s people not with&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/as-south-sudan-eyes-independence-will-it-choose-choose-to-protect-its-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32968</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8216;Land grab&#8217; fears in Africa legitimate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/01/land-grab-fears-in-africa-legitimate/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/01/land-grab-fears-in-africa-legitimate/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Jan 2011 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic Of Congo, East Africa, Ethiopia, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Senegal, South Korea, Sudan, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Corruption, Economics, Environment, Farming, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Hunger, Natural Resources, Politics, Poverty, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8216;Land grab&#8217; fears in Africa legitimate A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has found that recent large-scale land deals in Africa are likely to provide scant benefit to some of the world&#8217;s poorest and most famine-prone nations and will probably create new social and environmental problems. Analyzing 12 recent [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8216;Land grab&#8217; fears in Africa legitimate A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has found that recent large-scale land deals in Africa are likely to provide scant benefit to some of the world&#8217;s poorest and most famine-prone nations and will probably create new social and environmental problems. Analyzing 12 recent land leasing contracts investigators found a number of concerns, including contracts that are only a few pages long, exclusion of local people, and in one case actually giving land away for free. Many of the contracts last for 100 years, threatening to separate local communities from the land they live on indefinitely. &#8220;Most contracts for large-scale land deals in Africa are negotiated in secret,&#8221; explains report author Lorenzo Cotula in a press release. &#8220;Only rarely do local landholders have a say in those negotiations and few contracts are publicly available after they have been signed.&#8221; The land-lease trend in Africa is recent. As prognosticators warn that food and water shortages, exacerbated by climate change and growing populations, will become the norm, rising nation such as China and South Korea have begun to purchase massive tracts of land from the world&#8217;s most destitute. In Africa this covers over 50 million hectares in countries like Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Cameroon, Mozambique, Senegal, and Mali. In many cases the land is sold for a pittance: in Sudan land is being leased for $0.07 per hectare annually, while Mali has signed a contract that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/01/land-grab-fears-in-africa-legitimate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33032</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Record number of nations hit all time temperature highs</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/record-number-of-nations-hit-all-time-temperature-highs/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Nov 2010 18:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Ascension Island, Asia, Belarus, Bolivia, Chad, Colombia, Cyprus, Finland, Iraq, Kuwait, Latin America, Myanmar, Niger, Pacific Islands, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South America, Sudan, Ukraine, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Environment, Green, Islands, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master&#8217;s Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature. Over the past decade, which was the warmest on record, 75 nations have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[To date, nineteen nations have hit or matched record high temperatures this year, according to Jeff Master&#8217;s Wunder Blog, making 2010 the only year to have so many national records. In contrast, no nation this year has hit a record cold temperature. Over the past decade, which was the warmest on record, 75 nations have seen record highs, whereas 15 have seen record lows. Nations hitting record highs this year are the Ascension Islands, the Solomon Islands, Finland, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Colombia, Zambia, Cyprus, Myanmar, Chad, Niger, Sudan, Qatar, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, and most recently Bolivia. If Palestine were nation, the year&#8217;s total would be twenty, since it hit an all-time high of 51.4°C (124.5°F). This year is looking to be among the warmest yet recorded since data keeping began in the lat 19th Century. While the first half of the year was unusually warm worldwide, an expected La Nina phenomenon has recently brought cooler-than-average temperatures to much of the Northern Hemisphere. Climate experts overwhelmingly conclude that the world is warming due to extensive greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Related articles Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records (08/09/2010) The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all equaled&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/11/record-number-of-nations-hit-all-time-temperature-highs/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33305</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Summer from hell: seventeen nations hit all-time heat records</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/summer-from-hell-seventeen-nations-hit-all-time-heat-records/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/summer-from-hell-seventeen-nations-hit-all-time-heat-records/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Aug 2010 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Ascension Island, Asia, Belarus, Chad, Colombia, Cyprus, Europe, Finland, Guinea, Iraq, Kuwait, Latin America, Middle East, Myanmar, Niger, Pacific Islands, Pacific Ocean, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South America, Sudan, and Ukraine]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Disasters, Drought, Environment, Fires, Food, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Impact Of Climate Change, Peatlands, Temperatures, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asian continent sees warmest temperature ever recorded. The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asian continent sees warmest temperature ever recorded. The summer isn&#8217;t over yet, but already seventeen nations have matched or beaten their all-time heat records. According to Jeff Masters&#8217; WunderBlog, Belarus, the Ukraine, Cyprus, Russia, Finland, Qatar, the Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Niger, Chad, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan, Colombia, Myanmar, Ascension Island, and the Solomon Islands have all equaled or broken their top temperature records this year. In addition, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Asia was taken in Pakistan at 128 degrees Fahrenheit (53 degrees Celsius); this incredible temperature still has to be reviewed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Russia is currently undergoing a heat crisis with drought, forest and peatland fires, and dangerous temperatures threatening Moscow and parts of Central Russia. Thousands of people are thought to have died due to heat-related issues and Russia has halted wheat exports after the crop was devastated, aggravating fears of a global food crisis. The head of Russia&#8217;s weather service, Alexander Frolov, has said that Russia hasn&#8217;t seen such a heat wave in 1,000 years. While 17 nations have hit their highest ever temperatures in the last seven months, only one has recorded its lowest: Guinea in January recorded an all-time low. Climate experts overwhelmingly say that the world is warming due to extensive greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. The last six months have been the hottest on record worldwide since data-taking began in the 1880s, while the past decade (from 2000-2009) was the warmest decade on record. Recently officials have stated&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2010/08/summer-from-hell-seventeen-nations-hit-all-time-heat-records/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-33802</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous people, forest communities in Africa control less than 2% of forest land</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/indigenous-people-forest-communities-in-africa-control-less-than-2-of-forest-land/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 May 2009 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Gambia, Indonesia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Sudan, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Avoided Deforestation, carbon, climate finance, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Human Rights, Rainforests, Redd, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[Less than 2 percent of Africa’s tropical forests are under community control, hindering efforts to slow deforestation and alleviate rural poverty, reports a new assessment from the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition of non-governmental and community organizations. Deforestation rates in tropical Africa are among the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Less than 2 percent of Africa’s tropical forests are under community control, hindering efforts to slow deforestation and alleviate rural poverty, reports a new assessment from the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), a global coalition of non-governmental and community organizations. Deforestation rates in tropical Africa are among the highest on the planet while the region&#8217;s people are among the world&#8217;s poorest. Forest communities are highly dependent on natural resources for subsistence but without title to the lands they traditionally use, they face loss of forests to developers, including loggers and agroindustrial interests. The report urges land reform to give forest dwellers better control over their land. At less than 2 percent, the proportion of land owned by or designated for use by the African forest communities and indigenous groups is but a fraction of the nearly one-third of all forests in Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific controlled by such groups. Loita man in Kenya “The slowness of reform is suppressing a whole range of opportunities to reduce poverty and improve livelihoods,” said Emmanuel Ze Meka, ITTO’s Executive Director. “Africa’s forest communities already generate millions of jobs and dollars in domestic and regional trade, and in indigenous livelihoods, but current laws keep some of these activities illegal and also undermine opportunities to improve forest management.” The report says the legal recognition of community land will facilitate sustainable development activities under proposed systems to compensate tropical countries for reducing deforestation rates. The concept &#8212;&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2009/05/indigenous-people-forest-communities-in-africa-control-less-than-2-of-forest-land/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Climate change may increase global conflict</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2008/08/climate-change-may-increase-global-conflict/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2008 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worsening climate change will likely lead to increased global conflicts Climate change may increase global conflict Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com August 25, 2008 The signs of a warming world are everywhere: birds are migrating with changing temperatures; coral reefs are dying out due to bleaching; warmer winters are allowing beetles to devour Canadian forests; and the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Worsening climate change will likely lead to increased global conflicts Climate change may increase global conflict Jeremy Hance, mongabay.com August 25, 2008 The signs of a warming world are everywhere: birds are migrating with changing temperatures; coral reefs are dying out due to bleaching; warmer winters are allowing beetles to devour Canadian forests; and the Northwest Passage has opened for the second year in a row. While scientists work to understand how climate change is affecting the world&#8217;s ecosystems, others are attempting to predict how societies may respond. Jurgen Scheffran, a scientist with the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security at the University of Illinois, believes a warmer world will lead to an increase in armed conflicts. He concludes that societies stressed by increased competition for natural resources are more likely to engage in warfare. The most significant cause for conflict would be threats to food and water security. &#8220;Most critical for human survival are water and food, which are sensitive to changing climatic conditions,&#8221; Scheffran said. In his survey, Scheffran noted that the number of areas susceptible to drought will rise, and freshwater sources from glaciers in places such as the Himalayas and the Andes are likely to decrease. In what he calls a &#8220;cascading effect&#8221; resource-stressed societies will be less likely to withstand other climate change fallouts, such as intensifying natural disasters, economic depression, and a rise in environmental migrants. To illuminate this point, Scheffran references both historical and contemporary examples. Turkana children in the arid&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2008/08/climate-change-may-increase-global-conflict/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-38078</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/06/dam-protest-leaves-four-dead-in-sudan/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dams, Environment, Green, and Rivers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 14, 2007 Four people were killed and at least 10 wounded when police dispersed a group of dam protesters in Sudan, reports Sapa-AFP. The domestrators had gathered to protest a dam in the Kijbar region. Local [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan Dam protest leaves four dead in Sudan Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com June 14, 2007 Four people were killed and at least 10 wounded when police dispersed a group of dam protesters in Sudan, reports Sapa-AFP. The domestrators had gathered to protest a dam in the Kijbar region. Local press said that police fired on protesters as they tried to attack construction equipment being used to build the contested dam. Sapa-AFP reports that the protesters fear that their lands will be confiscated. The protests are not the first over a dam in the warn-torn country. To the south, Chinese contractors are building the Merowe dam, a hydroelectric project on the Nile River that will displace more than 50,000 people and inundate historical sites in Sudan. The government has recently agreed to pay compensation for the displaced, though only after a similar shooting left 3 dead and more than 50 wounded. Photos of the potentially affected region in Sudan. Photo by David Haberlah. &#8220;The Merowe Dam will have serious environmental impacts on the Nile Valley, the lifeline for Northern Sudan,&#8221; said Peter Bosshard, Policy Director of International Rivers Network (IRN). &#8220;The project violates Sudan&#8217;s Environmental Protection Act and all internationally accepted environmental standards. The Merowe Dam could not be built in most other countries, and is a test case for the commitment of leading hydropower companies to the minimal standards of environmental stewardship. The companies that are developing the project should suspend construction until the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/06/dam-protest-leaves-four-dead-in-sudan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-39255</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Massive wildlife population discovered in Southern Sudan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/06/massive-wildlife-population-discovered-in-southern-sudan/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Jun 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Parks, Protected Areas, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Photos of massive wildlife population discovered in Southern Sudan Massive wildlife population discovered in Southern Sudan mongabay.com June 12, 2007 Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society found more than 1.3 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, despite decades of civil war. The population, which includes more than [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Photos of massive wildlife population discovered in Southern Sudan Massive wildlife population discovered in Southern Sudan mongabay.com June 12, 2007 Aerial surveys by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society found more than 1.3 million white-eared kob, tiang antelope and Mongalla gazelle in Southern Sudan, despite decades of civil war. The population, which includes more than 8,000 elephants, rivals that of the legendary Serengeti in Tanzania and suggests that the region is of critical importance for conservation efforts. &#8220;I have never seen wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti,&#8221; said project leader J. Michael Fay, a renowned conservationist famous for his 15-month trek across the Congo rainforest starting in 1999. &#8220;This could represent the biggest migration of large mammals on earth.&#8221; Tiang herd in the Southern sector of Boma National Park. Photo by Paul Elkan and J. Michael Fay ©2007 National Geographic/ Wildlife Conservation Society Herd of elephants in the Sudd wetlands. Photo by Paul Elkan and J. Michael Fay ©2007 National Geographic/ Wildlife Conservation Society After years of fighting northern Sudan, Southern Sudan formed an autonomous region as part of a 2005 peace agreement, and will hold a referendum on independence in 2011. The region was last surveyed in 1982 by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) shortly before civil war broke out in the region in 1983. Based on experiences in war-torn Mozambique and Angola, where wildlife disappeared as a result of those conflicts, scientists assumed the worst for the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/06/massive-wildlife-population-discovered-in-southern-sudan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wildlife conservation plan moves forward in southern Sudan</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/04/wildlife-conservation-plan-moves-forward-in-southern-sudan/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Apr 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wildlife conservation plan moves forward in southern Sudan Wildlife conservation plan moves forward in southern Sudan Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com April 3, 2007 A leading conservation group announced that it has signed two agreements with the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to launch a conservation strategy for the region&#8217;s wildlife. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wildlife conservation plan moves forward in southern Sudan Wildlife conservation plan moves forward in southern Sudan Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com April 3, 2007 A leading conservation group announced that it has signed two agreements with the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) to launch a conservation strategy for the region&#8217;s wildlife. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society says that southern Sudan may have some of the richest wildlife in Africa. &#8220;This agreement marks a milestone for conservation in Africa,&#8221; said Dr. Steven Sanderson, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society. &#8220;This kind of conservation opportunity comes once in a generation, if at all. We are delighted and honored to be the first conservation group to sign a formal agreement with the Government of South Sudan, and we join them in their optimism that the wildlife and wild lands of Southern Sudan will be a source of pride for its people, and a centerpiece for conservation in Africa. Our efforts with the Government of Southern Sudan show that we must act with hope and courage, even in areas burdened by conflict and neglect.&#8221; Photo by Rob Roy &#8220;The Government of Southern Sudan is strongly committed to the development of its partnership with Wildlife Conservation Society for wildlife conservation and natural resource management in Southern Sudan. Wildlife conservation has been an important part of our post-conflict strategy for several years,&#8221; said Dr. Luka Biong Deng, Minister for Presidential Affairs for the Government of Southern Sudan. &#8220;The Government of Southern Sudan is faced&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/04/wildlife-conservation-plan-moves-forward-in-southern-sudan/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Sudanese activist to discuss deadly attacks tied to dam project</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/sudanese-activist-to-discuss-deadly-attacks-tied-to-dam-project/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Mar 2007 14:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sudanese activist to discuss deadly attacks tied to dam project Sudanese activist to discuss deadly attacks tied to dam project mongabay.com March 21, 2007 A new dam on the Nile River will displace more than 50,000 people and inundate historical sites in Sudan, reports International Rivers Network (IRN), a Berkeley-based environmental group. IRN says that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sudanese activist to discuss deadly attacks tied to dam project Sudanese activist to discuss deadly attacks tied to dam project mongabay.com March 21, 2007 A new dam on the Nile River will displace more than 50,000 people and inundate historical sites in Sudan, reports International Rivers Network (IRN), a Berkeley-based environmental group. IRN says that once completed, the $1.8 billion Merowe Dam could worsen already poor health conditions in the area and cause significant environmental impacts. &#8220;The Merowe Dam will have serious environmental impacts on the Nile Valley, the lifeline for Northern Sudan,&#8221; said Peter Bosshard, Policy Director of International Rivers Network. &#8220;The project violates Sudan&#8217;s Environmental Protection Act and all internationally accepted environmental standards. The Merowe Dam could not be built in most other countries, and is a test case for the commitment of leading hydropower companies to the minimal standards of environmental stewardship. The companies that are developing the project should suspend construction until the serious environmental impacts have been adequately addressed.&#8221; Photos of the potentially affected region in Sudan. Photos by David Haberlah. IRN notes that opposition to the dam has been met by a violent response from the Sudanese government. In April 2006, a militia employed by the Merowe Dam authorities, opened fired on Amri villagers who were gathering in a school in the dam&#8212;affected area. Three people were killed and more than 50 were injured. At the time, Al-Jazeera carried footage of the attack. To raise awareness on the project, the group has invited Ali&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2007/03/sudanese-activist-to-discuss-deadly-attacks-tied-to-dam-project/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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