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					<title>CITES rejects proposed suspension of Cambodian monkey exports</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/cites-rejects-proposed-suspension-of-cambodian-monkey-exports/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Feb 2025 09:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animals, Biodiversity, Crime, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Illegal Trade, Monkeys, Poaching, Primates, Protected Areas, Trapping, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[Exports of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia will remain legal pending further review, despite recommendations for a suspension to prevent poaching of the critically endangered monkey from the wild. The proposed suspension had been raised at last week’s meeting in Geneva of the Standing Committee of CITES, the global convention on the wildlife trade. It called [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Exports of long-tailed macaques from Cambodia will remain legal pending further review, despite recommendations for a suspension to prevent poaching of the critically endangered monkey from the wild. The proposed suspension had been raised at last week’s meeting in Geneva of the Standing Committee of CITES, the global convention on the wildlife trade. It called on Cambodian authorities to provide more proof that wild-caught macaques (Macaca fascicularis) weren’t being sold as captive-bred animals, casting doubt on official data ostensibly showing that the country’s macaque exports were being supplied by breeding centers. But delegates to the meeting on Feb. 4 agreed to grant Cambodian wildlife officials until November 2025 to host inspections from CITES, produce logbooks for captive-bred monkeys, and submit more data regarding the birth rates at monkey-breeding facilities. Chheang Dany, deputy director of Cambodia’s Forestry Administration, said at the CITES meeting that Cambodia strongly objected to the recommendation that trade be suspended. He said “Cambodia already provided clarification” on data surrounding birth rates that CITES experts and conservationists had said were too high to be realistic. Dany also said data surrounding long-tailed macaque birth rates provided to CITES without Cambodia’s consent. Reporters visited a long-tailed macaque breeding facility in Pursat province. The farm is owned by Vanny Bio, one of the companies indicted by U.S. federal prosecutors. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had spent five years investigating alleged monkey laundering in Cambodia — the practice of wild-caught monkeys being passed off as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/cites-rejects-proposed-suspension-of-cambodian-monkey-exports/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>CITES secretariat urges suspension of Cambodian long-tailed macaque trade</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/cites-secretariat-urges-suspension-of-cambodian-long-tailed-macaque-trade/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Feb 2025 01:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animal Rights, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Mammals, Monkeys, Politics, Primates, and Wildlife Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[The trade of endangered long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from Cambodia should be suspended, according to recommendations announced Jan. 14 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) secretariat. The trade of long-tailed macaques from other countries, including Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines, was recommended to remain under review, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The trade of endangered long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) from Cambodia should be suspended, according to recommendations announced Jan. 14 by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) secretariat. The trade of long-tailed macaques from other countries, including Laos, Vietnam and the Philippines, was recommended to remain under review, but CITES is now considering a total ban on the sale of Cambodian long-tailed macaques. The CITES secretariat recommends that trade be suspended until Cambodian authorities outline measures implemented to prevent the laundering of wild monkeys through breeding facilities, noting that the volume of births reported in five of the country’s six registered monkey-breeding facilities is “disproportionately high relative to what is considered biologically possible.” Cambodian authorities were also requested to implement proper logbooks for all births and deaths, as well as genetic parenthood tests to monitor reproduction rates. Cambodia’s national CITES representatives were given until Jan. 30, 2026, to respond, and the CITES standing committee will decide whether to adopt the recommended trade suspension on the morning of Feb. 4 at the forthcoming CITES meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. Long-tailed macaques, photographed here in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Macaques typically give birth to an infant every year or two, raising questions over reproduction rates reported in Cambodia&#8217;s captive breeding facilities. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay ‘Impossible on a regular basis’ The recommendation to suspend trade comes after Cambodian authorities responded to questions posed by the CITES animals committee in July 2024 regarding discrepancies between&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/cites-secretariat-urges-suspension-of-cambodian-long-tailed-macaque-trade/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-293749</doi>				</item>
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					<title>If you build it, the amphibians will come: Swiss researchers show new ponds boost species at risk</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/if-you-build-it-the-amphibians-will-come-swiss-researchers-show-new-ponds-boost-species-at-risk/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Dec 2022 16:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elissa Welle]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecology, Environment, Frogs, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Herps, Restoration, Solutions, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a rare triumph in amphibian conservation, researchers found that creating hundreds of new ponds in the midst of a bustling Switzerland landscape strengthened amphibian populations there. The effort, in which citizen scientists built and monitored ponds for 20 years, helped nearly three-quarters of the region&#8217;s populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders rebound or [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a rare triumph in amphibian conservation, researchers found that creating hundreds of new ponds in the midst of a bustling Switzerland landscape strengthened amphibian populations there. The effort, in which citizen scientists built and monitored ponds for 20 years, helped nearly three-quarters of the region&#8217;s populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders rebound or stabilize by occupying more ponds, a team reported recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nearly 40% of the world&#8217;s amphibian species are threatened with extinction, according to the IUCN Red List. The culprits vary from fungal diseases and climate change to pesticide use, road traffic, and habitat loss in local ecosystems. In Switzerland, for example, more than 90% of the wetlands favored by amphibians disappeared in the last century. The question driving the project was simple, said first author Helen Moor, a quantitative ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in Birmensdorf: Without addressing other factors, could improving habitats alone help reverse the declining trends for amphibians? In the Swiss countryside, at least, the answer for frogs, toads, newts and salamanders was yes. “In spite of all the other things going on in the landscape, just putting habitat there and making that available for the species, they made use of that and they started increasing,” Moor said. “To see that in the data at the landscape scale, that was very exciting.” The European tree frog (Hyla arborea) near the town Riehen, Switzerland. Image courtesy of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/if-you-build-it-the-amphibians-will-come-swiss-researchers-show-new-ponds-boost-species-at-risk/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-263420</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Switzerland set to burn more trees to reach its climate and energy goals (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/switzerland-set-to-burn-more-trees-to-reach-its-climate-and-energy-goals-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Sep 2022 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Lucie Wuethrich]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Bioenergy]]>
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							<![CDATA[Europe, European Union, and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Alternative Energy, Biodiversity, Bioenergy, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Fuelwood, Governance, Industry, Politics, Protected Areas, and Timber]]>
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							<![CDATA[Proponents of Swiss biomass are subject to an “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome,” expecting the public to believe in many impossible things, including that burning forest biomass is carbon neutral, sustainable and clean, critics say.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Switzerland had embarked on an energy transition even before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but rocketing energy prices have hastened the need to decrease reliance on imported dirty fossil fuels and strengthen self-sufficiency. Policymakers, backed by a triumvirate of larger environmental NGOs, believe forest-derived biomass should be used to offset fossil fuel use. Woody biomass in the form of logs, pellets, wood chips and waste wood already accounts for 85% of all Swiss biomass, currently the second-most important renewable in the country after hydro. But an eye-opening report co-authored by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) estimates the additional sustainable energy potential of domestic forest wood to be anywhere from 40% to 89% of today’s use. The reasoning is underpinned by the claims that Swiss forests are growing and that harvesting is “near natural.” Yet logging on the Central Plain, the country’s smallest but most productive forestry region, is already unsustainable, with annual yield (3.283 million cubic meters per year) outstripping growth (2.973 million m3/year). Forests here have shrunk by 3.6% and thinned by 11% in the past 20 years, but the latest 2021 Swiss Statistical Yearbook of Forestry says Switzerland’s overall “wooded area” decreased by some 2,742 hectares (6,776 acres) in 2020 compared to 2019. A further loss of 3,450 hectares (8,525 acres) was recorded by Global Forest Watch in 2021. Vigorous forest growth is still being cited as an excuse for logging, like here on Switzerland’s Central Plain, where unsustainable practices are creating “mosaic forests,” a term coopted&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/switzerland-set-to-burn-more-trees-to-reach-its-climate-and-energy-goals-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260008</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New DNA test aims to help bust illegal trade in precious red coral</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/new-dna-test-aims-to-help-bust-illegal-trade-in-precious-red-coral/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jul 2022 16:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Kristy Hamilton]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Business, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Coral Reefs, Environmental Law, Fisheries, Illegal Trade, International Trade, Marine, Marine Conservation, Overfishing, Research, Science, Technology, Trade, Wildlife Trade, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a sterile room, Bertalan Lendvay wields an electric drill that flicks off tiny flakes of precious coral skeletons. Lendvay, a research associate at the University of Zurich’s Institute of Forensic Medicine in Switzerland, routinely works for the police in human crime scenes. But he has spent the last four years tinkering with a way [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a sterile room, Bertalan Lendvay wields an electric drill that flicks off tiny flakes of precious coral skeletons. Lendvay, a research associate at the University of Zurich’s Institute of Forensic Medicine in Switzerland, routinely works for the police in human crime scenes. But he has spent the last four years tinkering with a way to use his expertise to help law enforcement catch smugglers illicitly trying to cash in on a legal coral trade worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Precious corals, also known as red corals, are colonies of sea creatures related to jellyfish whose communal skeleton looks like a shrunken tree stripped of its leaves and colored from salmon pink to deep vermilion. The deeper their crimson blush, the more cash they bring in for sellers. Eight precious coral species within the family Coralliidae are most commonly found in the international trade. Four are listed under Appendix III of CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, which requires that internationally traded items carry export documents affirming they were legally obtained; four aren’t listed at all. But here’s the crux for law enforcement: certain CITES-listed and unlisted species of precious red coral are nearly identical in color, especially after they’ve been polished into a bead or carved into a figurine. Law enforcement can’t tell them apart. Eight precious coral species within the family Coralliidae are most commonly found in the international trade. Image by RamiAubourg via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Lendvay and several colleagues developed a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/new-dna-test-aims-to-help-bust-illegal-trade-in-precious-red-coral/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-258468</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Amazon to Alps: Swiss gold imports from Brazil tread a legal minefield</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/amazon-to-alps-swiss-gold-imports-from-brazil-tread-a-legal-minefield/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jan 2022 17:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Fernanda WenzelOlivier Christe]]>
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						<![CDATA[Daniel]]>
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							<![CDATA[Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Europe, Latin America, South America, and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation, Gold Mining, Illegal Mining, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, International Trade, Mercury, Mining, Pollution, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Trade]]>
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							<![CDATA[Illegal mining in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon saw as much as a fivefold increase since 2010, a gold rush driven largely by surging prices in international markets. Over the past year, 25.4 tons of the precious metal worth an estimated $1.2 billion has been exported from Brazil to Switzerland, making it the second-largest [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Illegal mining in protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon saw as much as a fivefold increase since 2010, a gold rush driven largely by surging prices in international markets. Over the past year, 25.4 tons of the precious metal worth an estimated $1.2 billion has been exported from Brazil to Switzerland, making it the second-largest export market for the country’s gold, after Canada. About a fifth of this gold comes from the Amazon, according to official figures. The resulting rush to exploit Amazon gold has had devastating impacts on Indigenous peoples such as the Kayapo, Munduruku and Yanomami, who live in reserves in Pará and Roraima states that have been heavily mined by garimpeiros, or wildcat miners. The gold rush has been linked to increased pollution, deforestation and a rise in violent crimes. Between 2019 and 2020, some 100 tons of mercury was estimated to have been dumped into the Amazon Basin by illegal miners. The substance, which contaminates the water and the fish consumed by Amazonian people, affects the central nervous system, but can also reach the kidneys and liver. According to the Mercury Observatory, a pollution monitoring group, it can also pass through the placental barrier, contaminating the unborn. The symptoms of mercury poisoning range from impaired vision and muscular atrophy to psychological disorders and, in extreme instances, it can lead to life-threatening conditions such as cancers and heart conditions. Examples of the impacts of the gold rush are not hard to come by. In the Sawré Muybu Indigenous Reserve&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/01/amazon-to-alps-swiss-gold-imports-from-brazil-tread-a-legal-minefield/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-251911</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Debt deal with deforester BrasilAgro puts UBS’s green commitment in question</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/debt-deal-with-deforester-brasilagro-puts-ubss-green-commitment-in-question/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2021 16:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Fernanda WenzelOlivier Christe]]>
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						<![CDATA[Daniel]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, European Union, North America, South America, Switzerland, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Commodity agriculture, Deforestation, Farming, Finance, Grasslands, Illegal Logging, Industrial Agriculture, Rainforests, Savannas, Soy, timber trade, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A profit of over 400%. That’s what BrasilAgro got from one of its early business ventures. The company bought the Cremaq farm in 2006, paying 42 million reais ($8 million) for a 32,700-hectare (80,800-acre) farm in the state of Piauí, in Brazil’s northeast. It then spent another 22.6 million reais ($4.3 million) on starting soy [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A profit of over 400%. That’s what BrasilAgro got from one of its early business ventures. The company bought the Cremaq farm in 2006, paying 42 million reais ($8 million) for a 32,700-hectare (80,800-acre) farm in the state of Piauí, in Brazil’s northeast. It then spent another 22.6 million reais ($4.3 million) on starting soy cultivation to encourage potential buyers. The farm was split in two and sold between 2013 and 2015 for a combined 307.4 million reais ($58.4 million). But the consequence of this profiteering was deforestation, loss of groundwater, and the expulsion of local communities in the Cerrado, one of the world&#8217;s most significant biodiversity hotspots. “I define it as a company that transforms native or underused lands into financial assets,” says Rodrigo Cavalcanti do Nascimento, a geography Ph.D. who investigated BrasilAgro for his thesis. In May, Swiss bank UBS acted as a coordinator in a financial operation that raised 240 million reais ($45.5 million) for the company. BrasilAgro is just one piece of UBS&#8217;s larger strategy to profit from Brazilian agribusiness. To achieve its goal, it partnered with Banco do Brasil, the world&#8217;s largest agribusiness financier, to create a joint venture: UBS BB Investment Bank. BrasilAgro&#8217;s agricultural land. The consequences of BrasilAgro&#8217;s profiteering include deforestation, loss of groundwater, and the expulsion of local communities in the highly biodiverse Cerrado. Image by BrasilAgro via Facebook. Clearing forests and evicting communities On its website, BrasilAgro describes itself as &#8220;one of the largest Brazilian companies in [terms of] the amount&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/debt-deal-with-deforester-brasilagro-puts-ubss-green-commitment-in-question/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The HFC challenge: Can the Montreal Protocol continue its winning streak?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/the-hfc-challenge-can-the-montreal-protocol-continue-its-winning-streak/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2021 12:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jane Palmer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica, Colorado, European Union, Global, North America, and Switzerland]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Earth Science, Environment, Global Warming, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mitigation, Ozone Layer, Politics, and Research]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some 100 ozone-depleting CFCs and HCFCs are being phased out by the landmark treaty, but can this evolving accord now save Earth from the HFCs — one of which is a greenhouse gas 12,700 more potent than carbon dioxide.]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 1987, a one-seat, one-pilot, “Gary Powers [style] spy plane,” loaded with sophisticated scientific instruments screamed into the lower stratosphere above Antarctica at 200 meters per second. Its mission: determine the cause of a mysterious ozone hole in Earth’s atmosphere. “Basically, the story got told right there — almost immediately,” recalls David Fahey, an atmospheric chemist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), stationed in Boulder, Colorado. He was one of the scientists who worked through that night analyzing the data. The team’s landmark findings confirmed that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), ubiquitous coolants used for decades as refrigerants and in foam production, were the culprits behind Earth’s thinning ozone layer. Spurred on by accumulating scientific evidence, the world’s nations had crafted the 1987 United Nations Montreal Protocol to control the production and consumption of ozone-depleting chemicals. Since then, 197 countries and the European Union have ratified the binding treaty, and CFC levels have steadily declined in the atmosphere. In September 2019, the ozone hole was the smallest it had been since 1982 — marking a triumph for science and global diplomacy. “The Montreal Protocol is the most successful international treaty on the environment of all time,” says Neil Harris, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Cranfield, U.K. “It is working fully, and it continues to work.” But success didn’t come without tremendous labor on the part of industry and nations — along with diligent monitoring by scientists, acting something like traffic cops with radar guns, measuring trace gases, and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/05/the-hfc-challenge-can-the-montreal-protocol-continue-its-winning-streak/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>CITES to move wildlife trade summit from Colombo to Geneva this August</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/cites-to-move-wildlife-trade-summit-from-colombo-to-geneva-this-august/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2019 11:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sri Lanka and Switzerland]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Illegal Logging, Illegal Trade, timber trade, Wildlife, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[2018SEFD]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than seven weeks after a series of deadly Easter Sunday bombings rocked Sri Lanka, an international summit on the wildlife trade originally scheduled to take place in Colombo last May has now been shifted to Geneva. The announcement on the rescheduling of the 18th Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP18) to the Convention [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[More than seven weeks after a series of deadly Easter Sunday bombings rocked Sri Lanka, an international summit on the wildlife trade originally scheduled to take place in Colombo last May has now been shifted to Geneva. The announcement on the rescheduling of the 18th Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP18) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) was made June 12, amid growing concern from conservationists over the delay. The meeting will now take place from Aug. 17 to 28 in Geneva, home to the CITES headquarters, CITES Secretary-General Ivonne Higuero said in a statement. “This conclusion was reached after a consultation process with the CITES Standing Committee where they expressed their security and other concerns, and after careful consideration of the report of the mission of the United Nations Department of Safety and Security to Sri Lanka to assess the security situation on the ground, and discussions with the Sri Lankan government,” Higuero said. Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, Colombo, had been slated to host the top-level event from May 23 through June 3. But organizers announced April 26 that the event was indefinitely postponed, in the aftermath of the devastating bomb blasts that struck a series of churches and hotels in Colombo and surrounding areas on April 21 and claimed 258 lives. The U.N., whose environmental agency administers the CITES Secretariat, carried out a security assessment to determine whether the summit could still be held in Sri Lanka, with local organizers hopeful it would&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/06/cites-to-move-wildlife-trade-summit-from-colombo-to-geneva-this-august/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A snapshot of camera traps reveals user frustrations and hopes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/a-snapshot-of-camera-traps-reveals-user-frustrations-and-hopes/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Feb 2019 14:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global, Switzerland, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Batteries, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Monitoring, Research, Solutions, Surveying, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera trapping has become an important conservation and research tool worldwide. Photos from remote cameras have afforded us insights into the lives of rare, shy, cryptic, nocturnal, or otherwise seldom-seen animals. Remote cameras can capture images of a variety of rare, cryptic, and shy animals that would otherwise be impossible to view in their natural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera trapping has become an important conservation and research tool worldwide. Photos from remote cameras have afforded us insights into the lives of rare, shy, cryptic, nocturnal, or otherwise seldom-seen animals. Remote cameras can capture images of a variety of rare, cryptic, and shy animals that would otherwise be impossible to view in their natural habitat.These three cameras in a forest in Borneo found an orangutan, a pangolin, and a mousedeer. Images by Oliver Wearn. &nbsp; The idea is simple: Buy some cameras equipped with motion or heat sensors that automatically take an image or video when triggered by a passing animal, set the cameras out where you think the animal(s) will go, and let the animals take the images for you. Retrieve the images, and record all the interesting animals in them. Unfortunately, for many camera trap users, the reality has not been so easy. Cost, theft, and leakage A team of camera trapping experts surveyed researchers and conservation professionals to identify limitations to their successful use of remote cameras, assess their wish list of technological developments, and predict what next-generation camera trapping will look like. The 258 survey respondents from 52 countries use remote cameras for a variety of tasks: to inventory wildlife communities, answer questions about species’ distributions, abundance and behavior, obtain photos for artistic and outreach work, and monitor people, including potential wildlife poachers. A pair of Malayan porcupines (Hystrix brachyura) meet up on the forest floor in Borneo. Image by Oliver Wearn. It turns out&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/a-snapshot-of-camera-traps-reveals-user-frustrations-and-hopes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-215455</doi>				</item>
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					<title>CITES rejects Madagascar’s bid to sell rosewood and ebony stockpiles</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/cites-rejects-madagascars-bid-to-sell-rosewood-and-ebony-stockpiles/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/cites-rejects-madagascars-bid-to-sell-rosewood-and-ebony-stockpiles/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Dec 2017 13:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation in Madagascar]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Europe, Madagascar, and Switzerland]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Crime, Deforestation, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Forest Products, Forests, Governance, Green, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Logging, National Parks, Organized Crime, Parks, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Rosewood, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In August, the government of Madagascar drafted a business plan to sell its stockpiles of rosewood and ebony — hundreds of thousands of logs. The plan required the approval of CITES, which has banned the trade of all species of Malagasy rosewood (Dalbergia spp.) and ebony (Diospyros spp.) since 2013. On December 1 during a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In August, the government of Madagascar drafted a business plan to sell its stockpiles of rosewood and ebony — hundreds of thousands of logs. The plan required the approval of CITES, which has banned the trade of all species of Malagasy rosewood (Dalbergia spp.) and ebony (Diospyros spp.) since 2013. On December 1 during a five-day meeting of its standing committee in Geneva, CITES rejected the plan because of the government’s lack of progress in tackling the so-called rosewood crisis and its failure, thus far, to audit enough of the stockpiles. Illegal logging of rosewood and other precious timber spiked in Madagascar’s northeastern rainforests, including in national parks, following a 2009 coup. The logging has since declined but the fate of stockpiled wood has remained an open question. Madagascar’s government controls only a small portion of the stockpiles. Most of the rosewood covered by the business plan is in “declared” stockpiles that remain in the possession of timber traders and have never been fully counted or verified. Most observers believe that timber barons have over-declared the number of logs in their stockpiles so that they can keep adding to them, and that the Stockpiled rosewood logs outside the provincial forestry and environment office in the northeastern city of Antalaha fill more than half the courtyard to head-height, but local officials there have no record of how much wood they are charged with securing. Photo by Rowan Moore Gerety for Mongabay. stockpiles are now being used as clearinghouses for newly cut,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/cites-rejects-madagascars-bid-to-sell-rosewood-and-ebony-stockpiles/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-202014</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Do the Locomotion: Bio-inspired technology creates amphibious robots that mimic salamander movement</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/03/do-the-locomotion-bio-inspired-technology-creates-amphibious-robots-that-mimic-salamander-movement/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Mar 2017 18:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lalini Pedris]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global and Switzerland]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Conservation Technology, Monitoring, Research, Robots, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Undulating at the surface, the Salamandra robotica cruises through the water until it reaches the shore, then ambles forward through the sand with a lumbering gait on its four paddle-like, rotating legs. Unlike its amphibian muse, this robot salamander has no brain to dictate its motion, just a simple central pattern generator that controls its [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Salamandra robotica II. Photo credit: Konstantinos Karakasiliotis, courtesy of the Biorobotics Laboratory, EPFL Undulating at the surface, the Salamandra robotica cruises through the water until it reaches the shore, then ambles forward through the sand with a lumbering gait on its four paddle-like, rotating legs. Unlike its amphibian muse, this robot salamander has no brain to dictate its motion, just a simple central pattern generator that controls its movement and a spinal cord that runs along its modular body.  Built to test the limits of engineering through bio-inspired technology, the Salamandra robotica models the neural system that guides locomotion in live salamanders. A team of researchers at Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) modeled the neural networks of a salamander’s spinal cord in order to better understand how animals that use both swimming and walking gaits move. A salamander’s brain stimulates the animal’s neurobiological networks and creates ‘traveling’ or ‘standing’ waves that generate the movement of its body. ‘Traveling waves’ move along the body, from front to back, and are used to propel the salamander’s swimming body forward. ‘Standing waves’, on the other hand, involve fixed points along the salamander’s body, so that the animal moves its upper and lower body in opposite directions. A fire salamander in Normandy, FrancePhoto credit: William Warby via Creative Commons license “When an animal walks, it actually does this gait in synchrony with the legs,” explains Dr. Alessandro Crespi, a researcher with the EPFL Biorobotics Laboratory. “This is very important, because if the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/03/do-the-locomotion-bio-inspired-technology-creates-amphibious-robots-that-mimic-salamander-movement/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Malaysian palm oil giant IOI sues RSPO over suspension</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/malaysian-palm-oil-giant-ioi-sues-rspo-suspension/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 May 2016 11:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Mongabay Editor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Europe, Indonesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Switzerland, and West Kalimantan]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Certification, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Deforestation, Environment, Fires, Forestry, Forests, Law Enforcement, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Politics, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A Malaysian company that helped found the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is suing the RSPO for suspending its sustainability certification over alleged environmental transgressions in Indonesia. IOI Group has filed a lawsuit in Zurich against the RSPO, the world’s largest association for ethical palm oil, whose corporate and NGO members jockey to set the terms [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A Malaysian company that helped found the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is suing the RSPO for suspending its sustainability certification over alleged environmental transgressions in Indonesia. IOI Group has filed a lawsuit in Zurich against the RSPO, the world’s largest association for ethical palm oil, whose corporate and NGO members jockey to set the terms for sustainable production of the commodity, used in everything from snack foods to cosmetics and detergents. Since the suspension was announced in March, key customers like Unilever, Kellogg and Nestlé have cut supplies from IOI, which has lost permission to sell the RSPO-brand “Certified Sustainable Palm Oil” (CSPO) preferred by companies trying to clean up their supply chains. Three of IOI’s subsidiaries in the Ketapang area of Indonesian Borneo are alleged to have cleared rainforest without the proper government permits, operated on carbon-rich deep peat soil, and used fire to clear land cheaply — practices not uncommon in an industry rife with illegality. “The decision to challenge the RSPO Board’s suspension decision is a difficult and painful one for us to take&#8230;we have great commitment and attachment to RSPO,” IOI chief executive Lee Yeow Chor said in a statement. “On the other hand, we feel that we have been unfairly affected by the extent and scope of the suspension,” he added, arguing that the penalty should apply only to IOI’s plantations so that its refineries could continue marketing CSPO and avoid disrupting its customers’ supply schemes. The suspension was seen as an indication the RSPO&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/malaysian-palm-oil-giant-ioi-sues-rspo-suspension/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazilian mining company connected to Belo Monte dam voted worst corporation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/01/brazilian-mining-company-connected-to-belo-monte-dam-voted-worst-corporation/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Jan 2012 16:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Britain, Europe, Latin America, South America, and Switzerland]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Activism, Alternative Energy, Banking, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Dams, Economics, Energy, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Human Rights, Hunger, Hydroelectric Power, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Rivers, Threats To Rainforests, and Traditional People]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world&#8217;s second largest mining company, Vale, has been given the dubious honor of being voted the world&#8217;s most awful corporation in terms of human rights abuses and environmental destruction by the Public Eye Awards. Vale received over 25,000 votes online, likely prompted in part by its stake in the hugely controversial Brazilian mega-dam, Belo [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world&#8217;s second largest mining company, Vale, has been given the dubious honor of being voted the world&#8217;s most awful corporation in terms of human rights abuses and environmental destruction by the Public Eye Awards. Vale received over 25,000 votes online, likely prompted in part by its stake in the hugely controversial Brazilian mega-dam, Belo Monte, which is being constructed on the Xingu River. An expert panel gave a second award to British bank Barclay&#8217;s for speculation on food prices, which the experts stated was worsening hunger worldwide. Given not far from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland&#8212;a forum that includes corporations, policy-makers, and academics&#8212;the Public Eye Awards are a counter-meeting meant to highlight the worst offenses of the global corporate system. &#8220;All the nominations, which we publish annually, reveal a striking absence of the rule of law. The nominations are an outcry against a system in which human rights criminals and environmental desecrators need not fear punishment. This must change,&#8221; said François Meienberg with the Berne Declaration (BD). The Public Eye Awards are set up by the Berne Declaration and Greenpeace-Switzerland. Vale: people&#8217;s choice for worst company A section of the Xingu River as viewed by Google Earth. Vale won around 28 percent of the vote facing seven other competitors. The company was singled out for its role in the Belo Monte dam and alleged human rights abuses at the Carajás mines. According to organizers it was Vale&#8217;s purchase of 9 percent stake, the highest of a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/01/brazilian-mining-company-connected-to-belo-monte-dam-voted-worst-corporation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Top forest policies recognized</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/top-forest-policies-recognized/</link>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bhutan, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[19 forest policies have been nominated for an award by the World Future Council, a global think tank. The policies come from 16 countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States of America and Vietnam. Nominations were made by various international organizations, including UN [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[19 forest policies have been nominated for an award by the World Future Council, a global think tank. The policies come from 16 countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Finland, Gambia, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Norway, Rwanda, Switzerland, Turkey, the United States of America and Vietnam. Nominations were made by various international organizations, including UN agencies. The contest aims to raise awareness of the policies and accelerate policy action. &#8220;Winners will represent the most inspiring, innovative and influential forest policies which contribute to the management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests for the benefit of current and future generations,&#8221; said the World Future Council in a statement. The awards will be announced September 21. The jury includes Jan McAlpine, Director, United Nations Forum on Forests; Professor Marie Claire Cordonier Segger, Director, Center for International Sustainable Development Law; Jakob von Uexkull, Chair, World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award; Tewolde Berhan Egziabher, Director General, Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia; and Pauline Tangiora, Maori elder from the Rongomaiwahine tribe, among others. It was not immediately clear whether policy enforcement will be a factor in determining the winner. Several of the recognized forest policies have been undermined by lack of enforcement. Nepal, India, and Brazil have seen substantial deforestation since their nominated policies were enacted.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/top-forest-policies-recognized/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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