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					<title>From Africa to Central Asia, the European roller’s migration builds relationships</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/from-africa-to-central-asia-the-european-rollers-migration-builds-relationships/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/from-africa-to-central-asia-the-european-rollers-migration-builds-relationships/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 May 2026 07:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, China, Europe, India, Kenya, Somalia, South Africa, Southern Africa, Tanzania, and Uzbekistan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Habitat Loss, Migration, Research, Species, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[The European roller is a small, striking migratory bird that breeds in open woodlands — or farms and orchards — across Europe and Central Asia. Coracias garrulus is also well-known to Southern and South Africa&#8217;s avid birdwatching communities, including many citizen scientists who participate in the Southern African Bird Atlas Project. But the rollers that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The European roller is a small, striking migratory bird that breeds in open woodlands — or farms and orchards — across Europe and Central Asia. Coracias garrulus is also well-known to Southern and South Africa&#8217;s avid birdwatching communities, including many citizen scientists who participate in the Southern African Bird Atlas Project. Image courtesy of Lourenço Afonso. But the rollers that spend November to March in South Africa appear to be mostly the C. g. semenowi subspecies. The routes these populations follow to their breeding grounds as far as 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) away in Central Asia are not known. Image courtesy of Ma Ming. Since 2024, scientists at BirdLife South Africa have fit tiny 3.8-gram (0.1-ounce) trackers to seven birds to investigate the birds’ migration routes and stopover sites. Image courtesy of Jean-Richard Snoer. The tagged rollers traveled north through Tanzania and Kenya, paused in Somalia, and then flew on to Central Asia via Oman and India. One individual ended up in China, two others in Uzbekistan. Image courtesy of BirdLife SA One year&#8217;s tracking of just seven birds has connected South Africa to bird clubs in Gujarat, India, and a Chinese researcher studying the rollers&#8217; breeding behavior in Xinjiang, China. Image courtesy of Ma Ming. BirdLife SA&#8217;s tiny staff dedicated to the European Roller Monitoring Project is supported by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The tracking devices are paid for by individual donors. Image courtesy of Jean-Richard Snoer. In the years ahead, Flyway and Migrants Project&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/from-africa-to-central-asia-the-european-rollers-migration-builds-relationships/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-319029</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate change amplifies the risk of conflict, study from Africa shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/climate-change-amplifies-the-risk-of-conflict-study-from-africa-shows/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/climate-change-amplifies-the-risk-of-conflict-study-from-africa-shows/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Jul 2022 11:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Justice, Conflict, Conservation, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Impact Of Climate Change, Politics, Resource Conflict, Social Conflict, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[In October 2021, the city of Guriel in Somalia’s Galguduud region became the epicenter of fierce fighting between the national army and a paramilitary group that left more than 100 people dead and displaced another 100,000. In November, the government declared a national emergency as drought intensified over 80% of the country, including in Galguduud. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In October 2021, the city of Guriel in Somalia’s Galguduud region became the epicenter of fierce fighting between the national army and a paramilitary group that left more than 100 people dead and displaced another 100,000. In November, the government declared a national emergency as drought intensified over 80% of the country, including in Galguduud. &#8220;You can run away from fighting, but you can&#8217;t escape from the drought,” Deeko Adan Warsame, head of the women&#8217;s council of Guriel, told an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official. New research from Africa shows that fighting may, in fact, follow droughts. This year, rains failed again in Somalia, the fourth time in two years. If drought conditions persist for three years, it significantly increases the risk of violent confrontations, a study in the journal Economía Política estimated. Climate change can amplify the risk of conflict by as much as four to five times in a 550-kilometer (340-mile) radius. People displaced due to flooding and clan conflict in Jowhar, Somalia, collect resources from charity in 2013. Image by Tobin Jones / UN Photo via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Somalia, a coastal nation in the Horn of Africa, is one of the most vulnerable to climate impacts. In 2019, it was ranked 181st out of 182 countries on the University of Notre Dame’s ND-GAIN index, which ranks climate adaptation readiness. Of the 25 countries most at risk from climate change, most are already dealing with violent conflicts, according to the ICRC, which operates&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/climate-change-amplifies-the-risk-of-conflict-study-from-africa-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-258180</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>In the Horn of Africa, conflict and illegal trade create a ‘cheetah hell’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-the-horn-of-africa-conflict-and-illegal-trade-create-a-cheetah-hell/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Oct 2020 05:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Welfare, Animals, Baby Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Cheetahs, Climate Change, Conservation, Education, Environment, Farming, Green, Human-wildlife Conflict, Livestock, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescues, Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Trafficking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 8-week-old cheetah cubs should have been with their mother. Instead, they were penned up in a small village near Erigavo, Somaliland, after a group of nomadic livestock farmers chased the mother away and captured the cubs from a nearby cave. “There were actually three [cubs],” Asma Bileh, a Somaliland veterinarian for the Cheetah Conservation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The 8-week-old cheetah cubs should have been with their mother. Instead, they were penned up in a small village near Erigavo, Somaliland, after a group of nomadic livestock farmers chased the mother away and captured the cubs from a nearby cave. “There were actually three [cubs],” Asma Bileh, a Somaliland veterinarian for the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), told Mongabay. “One died immediately … so they brought back two of them into their houses. They were keeping them for a while.” One of the two cubs rescued near Erigavo, Somaliland on August 22, 2020. Image provided by Cheetah Conservation Fund and the Somaliland Ministry of Environment and Rural Development. When Somaliland’s Ministry of Environment and Rural Development (MoERD) received a tip about the cubs, a rescue team, which included Bileh, traveled to the village on Aug. 22. The baby cheetahs were a little malnourished and dehydrated, having only been fed small portions of goat milk and meat, which hadn’t provided enough sustenance. These cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are among dozens of cubs that have been rescued by the MoERD-CCF team in Somaliland this year; as of this week, CCF reported a total of 29 rescued cubs since January, three of which have died. The reason for this onslaught of rescued cubs is human-wildlife conflicts between livestock farmers and wild cheetahs, as well as the illegal demand for wild cheetahs as pets in the Middle East, according to conservationists. While the global cheetah population is estimated to be around 7,100, the local population&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/10/in-the-horn-of-africa-conflict-and-illegal-trade-create-a-cheetah-hell/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-235600</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Elephant shrew ‘lost’ to science for 52 years is ‘rediscovered’ in Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/elephant-shrew-lost-to-science-for-52-years-is-rediscovered-in-africa/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/elephant-shrew-lost-to-science-for-52-years-is-rediscovered-in-africa/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Aug 2020 14:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Elephants, Environment, Green, Mammals, Rediscovered Species, Research, Science, Species, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Somali sengi is a strange amalgamation of creatures. While its body is the shape and size of a mouse’s, it has spindly, gazelle-like legs that allow it to dart across boulders at breakneck speed. It also has a long, trunk-like nose that resembles an elephant’s, although it functions more like an anteater’s with its [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Somali sengi is a strange amalgamation of creatures. While its body is the shape and size of a mouse’s, it has spindly, gazelle-like legs that allow it to dart across boulders at breakneck speed. It also has a long, trunk-like nose that resembles an elephant’s, although it functions more like an anteater’s with its ability to suck up ants. Some of the Somali sengi’s closest living relatives are the aardvark, elephant and manatee. But the Somali sengi (Elephantulus revoilii), known commonly as an elephant shrew, has been lost to science since 1968, prompting Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC), an NGO that works to protect endangered species and ecosystems, to list it as one of its 25 most wanted lost species. It was previously believed that the species only existed in the northern parts of Somalia and Somaliland, although there was a distinct lack of data on the species, prompting the IUCN, the global authority on the conservation status of wildlife and plants, to list the Somali sengi’s conservation status as data deficient. “There has been a lack of small mammal research in the Horn of Africa over the last several decades, some of that has to do with difficult logistics in Somaliland,” Steven Heritage, a research scientist at the Duke University Lemur Center and lead author of a new paper on Somali sengis, told Mongabay. “Nobody has ever written anything about living Somali sengis, [so we were] without any information about their diet or their habitats or anything like that.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/08/elephant-shrew-lost-to-science-for-52-years-is-rediscovered-in-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-233971</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Changing climate creates ideal conditions for devastating locust swarms</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/changing-climate-creates-ideal-conditions-for-devastating-locust-swarms/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jun 2020 18:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Gilbert Nakweya]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Climate Change, Environment, Farming, Green, and Insects]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists, agricultural officers and farmers are struggling to protect crops from a fresh wave of desert locusts. Earlier swarms overran the Horn of Africa region in December 2019, and the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicted a second wave would emerge. That second wave duly emerged in April, spreading across northeastern Kenya before moving [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Scientists, agricultural officers and farmers are struggling to protect crops from a fresh wave of desert locusts. Earlier swarms overran the Horn of Africa region in December 2019, and the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicted a second wave would emerge. That second wave duly emerged in April, spreading across northeastern Kenya before moving into Uganda and South Sudan in May. These swarms are made up of the younger and more voracious offspring of the locust swarms that hit the region in December and January. “This is not the first time that East Africa has seen locust upsurges approach this scale,” says Hamisi Williams, an FAO representative in Kenya, “but the size of the current situation is unprecedented in recent memory — sort of a 100-year storm.” A swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria), numbering anywhere between 10 million and 100 million individuals, can fly up to 150 kilometers (90 miles) a day. Swarms have been known to migrate to Ethiopia and Somalia from as far away as India. As they move, the females lay eggs, leaving behind the nuclei of successive swarms that emerge a few weeks later. Williams says climate change, which has affected storms and rainfall patterns in this region, is an important driver of locust population dynamics. Over the past three years, more frequent Indian Ocean cyclones have played a role in increased numbers of locusts. “In 2018, two cyclones dumped heavy rain on the uninhabited portion of the Arabian Peninsula known as &#8216;The Empty&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/changing-climate-creates-ideal-conditions-for-devastating-locust-swarms/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-231046</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jane Goodall interview: &#8216;The most important thing is sharing good news&#8217;</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Nov 2017 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Burundi, California, England, Global, Kenya, Puerto Rico, Somalia, Tanzania, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Chimpanzees, Climate Change, Conservation, Disasters, Great Apes, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Jane Goodall, Lions, Rainforests, Rhinos, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[This week’s podcast featured a discussion between Mongabay’s founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler and Jane Goodall, the world’s most recognizable conservationist and one of this media outlet’s esteemed advisory board members (listen to excerpts of it here). Rhett and Jane check in regularly, but given the recent research vindicating her long (six decade) contention [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[This week’s podcast featured a discussion between Mongabay’s founder and CEO Rhett A. Butler and Jane Goodall, the world’s most recognizable conservationist and one of this media outlet’s esteemed advisory board members (listen to excerpts of it here). Rhett and Jane check in regularly, but given the recent research vindicating her long (six decade) contention that animals – from the chimps she studied to the everyday animals we are all surrounded by – are individuals with personalities, just like humans, we decided to record and share the conversation. Listen here or read the transcript below: In this context they discuss the idea that trophy hunting is an important component of funding the conservation of species like lions and rhinos (Dr. Goodall calls that “rubbish” for multiple reasons, including the loss of accumulated wisdom and experience held by elder animals). Also discussed is China’s increasing environmental awareness; the importance of conservation groups working with communities on multiple levels like health and education, and not just the environment; the recent disasters like in Puerto Rico and northern California; news that the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI)’s youth program Roots and Shoots now has perhaps 150,000 chapters worldwide; and an update on JGI’s network of village-level volunteers, which in combination with tech tools like remote sensing, is able to provide the latest observations of what’s happening all over the world, as in the examples she shares from Tanzania and Burundi. The two spoke just before Dr. Goodall set off on her latest speaking tour:&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/jane-goodall-interview-the-most-important-thing-is-sharing-good-news/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-201266</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have reliable access to fresh water</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/two-thirds-of-the-worlds-population-doesnt-have-reliable-access-to-fresh-water/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Feb 2016 14:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arabian Desert, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Global, Gobi Desert, India, Jordan, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sahara Desert, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United States, and Yemen]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Ecosystems, Environment, Freshwater, Global Environmental Crisis, Impact Of Climate Change, Water, and Water Scarcity]]>
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							<![CDATA[New research paints a sobering picture about the water crisis looming over our heads. Previous studies have estimated anywhere from 1.7 and 3.1 billion people are already living with severe water shortages. But those studies underestimated the extent of water scarcity, according to researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, who published their [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[New research paints a sobering picture about the water crisis looming over our heads. Previous studies have estimated anywhere from 1.7 and 3.1 billion people are already living with severe water shortages. But those studies underestimated the extent of water scarcity, according to researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, who published their findings in the journal Science Advances last week. The researchers say their results show that two-thirds of the global population &mdash; some four billion people, half of them in India or China &mdash; currently live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least one month out of the year. As many as half a billion people face severe water scarcity all year, the University of Twente researchers found. Prior studies that determined water scarcity was less widespread tended only to examine the issue at the level of very large spatial units, such as river basins, or only looked at water scarcity on an annual rather than on a monthly basis. “Measuring at a basin scale and on an annual basis hides the water scarcity that manifests itself in particular places and specific parts of the year,” the authors of the Science Advances article wrote. Previous studies also underestimated water scarcity by failing to account for the flow levels required to sustain ecosystems and livelihoods that depend on them. But “measuring the variability of water scarcity within the year helps to reveal what is actually experienced by people locally,” the researchers wrote. “More than a billion&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/two-thirds-of-the-worlds-population-doesnt-have-reliable-access-to-fresh-water/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-179089</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Somali charcoal: funding terrorism through deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/somali-charcoal-funding-terrorism-through-deforestation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/somali-charcoal-funding-terrorism-through-deforestation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>05 Mar 2015 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mike Gaworecki]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging, Terrorism, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Militant terrorist group Al-Shabaab funds itself, in part, through the]]>
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							<![CDATA[Militant terrorist group Al-Shabaab funds itself, in part, through theThis article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/03/somali-charcoal-funding-terrorism-through-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24027</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Poor rains then floods lead to food crisis in Somalia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/poor-rains-then-floods-lead-to-food-crisis-in-somalia/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Nov 2014 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Green, Hunger, and Impact Of Climate Change]]>
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							<![CDATA[A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn&#8217;t make it. Most of the dead were children. Photo by: Andy Hall/Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons 2.0. Four years after over a quarter of a million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn&#8217;t make it. Most of the dead were children. Photo by: Andy Hall/Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons 2.0. Four years after over a quarter of a million people perished in a famine in Somalia, the East African country is again on the verge of a possible humanitarian disaster. Flooding in southern Somalia, following months of little rain, has just exacerbated an already-precarious situation according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). The group is calling for $49 million to provide emergency funding to programs already in place to stem the crisis. &#8220;We have a small and critical window of opportunity&#8212;we must seize it now if we want to avoid going the same way as four years ago,&#8221; said Luca Alinovi, the acting Head of Office at the FAO Somalia. In all, the United Nations estimate that a million people in Somalia are in need of assistance. The group also reports that 218,000 children in the country under five are already acutely malnourished. &#8220;If we&#8217;ve learned anything from the devastation of the 2011 famine, it&#8217;s that early warning signs must lead to immediate action,&#8221; said Bukar Tijani, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa. &#8220;We know from experience that quick responses to early warnings are crucial to prevent disaster and are less costly than emergency responses to full-blown humanitarian crisis.&#8221; Experts fear&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/11/poor-rains-then-floods-lead-to-food-crisis-in-somalia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-24483</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New report: illegal logging keeps militias and terrorist groups in business</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/new-report-illegal-logging-keeps-militias-and-terrorist-groups-in-business/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jun 2014 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Janaki Lenin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Brazil, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Indonesia, Nigeria, Somalia, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crime, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Green, Logging, Rainforests, Terrorism, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Total profit from environmental crime may exceed $200 billion per year Deforestation has many harmful consequences, from loss of wildlife habitat to degradation of water and air quality, and many more. Now, a new report adds another repercussion to the list: the funding of terrorist groups and other crime networks. Entitled “The Environmental Crime Crisis” [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Total profit from environmental crime may exceed $200 billion per year Deforestation has many harmful consequences, from loss of wildlife habitat to degradation of water and air quality, and many more. Now, a new report adds another repercussion to the list: the funding of terrorist groups and other crime networks. Entitled “The Environmental Crime Crisis” and released last week by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) during the first United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, the report found that together with other other illicit operations such as poaching, illegal deforestation is one of the top money-makers for criminal groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab. Burundi peacekeepers prepare for next rotation to Somalia to fight Al-Shabaab insurgents. Photo by US Army Africa. The report pegged the total worth of environmental crime, including logging, fishing, mining, wildlife trafficking, and waste, at $70 billion to $213 billion per year. Illegal logging alone was worth between $30 billion to $100 billion annually, while wildlife trafficking was worth $7 billion to $23 billion. As if the situation weren’t nightmarish already, organized criminals, militias, and terrorist groups reaped a significant amount of this ill-gotten lucre, especially in some African countries. In many parts of the world, wood smugglers are not prosecuted as stringently as wildlife poachers. Unlike dealing in illegal drugs, piracy, or wildlife crime, the probability of getting caught and convicted is low, while profits are high. Even worse, many conflict zones are in the vicinity of forests where governments have little reach. Illegal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/new-report-illegal-logging-keeps-militias-and-terrorist-groups-in-business/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25005</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ever heard of the hirola? New survey shows world&#8217;s rarest antelope holding steady</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/ever-heard-of-the-hirola-new-survey-shows-worlds-rarest-antelope-holding-steady/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jun 2014 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Environment, Ex-situ Conservation, Fellows, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, and Ungulates]]>
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							<![CDATA[An hirola in Tsavo East National Park. Photo by: James Probert. In 2008 and 2009, severe droughts killed numerous elephants, hippos and rhinos in Kenya&#8217;s Tsavo East National Park. But the tiny population of the Critically Endangered Hunter&#8217;s hartebeest or hirola (Beatragus hunteri) survived without any catastrophic consequences, a recent study has found. &#8220;Hirola are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An hirola in Tsavo East National Park. Photo by: James Probert. In 2008 and 2009, severe droughts killed numerous elephants, hippos and rhinos in Kenya&#8217;s Tsavo East National Park. But the tiny population of the Critically Endangered Hunter&#8217;s hartebeest or hirola (Beatragus hunteri) survived without any catastrophic consequences, a recent study has found. &#8220;Hirola are native to very dry areas and have numerous physiological adaptations to survive in these environments,&#8221; said James Probert, currently an Assistant Conservation Officer at Chester Zoo in the UK, and lead author of the study published in Oryx. &#8220;So it&#8217;s not surprising that they were able to withstand the drought better than some of the other species in Tsavo.&#8221; The hirola is unique in many ways. It is the only surviving member of the mammalian genus Beatragus, occurring in a small area at the Kenya-Somalia border. It is also one of the most threatened and least known antelopes in the world. Since the 1970s, its population has crashed by more than 90 percent, with only between 350 and 500 individuals currently in the wild. To prevent complete extinction, a small population of about 20-30 hirola was moved to Tsavo in 1963, outside its natural range, in what was called &#8220;Operation Hunter&#8217;s.&#8221; This was followed by translocation of an additional 29 individuals in 1996. Surveys of hirola in 1995 and 2000 yielded estimates of 76 and 77 individuals respectively. The face of the hirola. Photo by: James Probert. In 2011, Probert set out to monitor the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/06/ever-heard-of-the-hirola-new-survey-shows-worlds-rarest-antelope-holding-steady/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25070</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Somalia could face another famine due to delayed rains, insecurity</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/somalia-could-face-another-famine-due-to-delayed-rains-insecurity/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 May 2014 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, and War]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly a million people are in need of immediate food assistance in Somalia, where delayed rains, high food prices, and insecurity threaten a repeat of the 2011 famine that left 258,000 people dead. According to the UN&#8217;s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), 857,000 Somalis need immediate assistance while over 200,000 children under five [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearly a million people are in need of immediate food assistance in Somalia, where delayed rains, high food prices, and insecurity threaten a repeat of the 2011 famine that left 258,000 people dead. According to the UN&#8217;s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), 857,000 Somalis need immediate assistance while over 200,000 children under five in the country are currently suffering from acute malnourishment. &#8220;The month of May remains critical during which, if rains fail, combined with sustained insecurity, we might see new levels of crisis unfold especially in southern parts of Somalia and the mainly pastoral northeast,&#8221; Daniel Molla, the Chief Technical Advisor of FSANU, said. Rains in April were far below normal in the country&#8217;s north, which &#8220;has led to early depletion of fresh water sources for human and animal consumption,&#8221; according to a release from the FSNAU. &#8220;The two major rivers that support irrigated agriculture, the Juba and Shabelle, are currently below their normal levels for this time of the year and one meter lower compared to the levels of last year.&#8221; A girl stands in front of freshly dug graves in Dadaab, Kenya. The town was one of the places Somali refuges fled to during the 2011 famine, but many didn&#8217;t make it. Most of the dead were children. Photo by: Andy Hall/Oxfam East Africa/Creative Commons 2.0. The situation is also exacerbated by an increasing battle against al-Shabab insurgents, who have blocked trade into some areas where they&#8217;ve been pushed out by Somali government troops. &#8220;For&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2014/05/somalia-could-face-another-famine-due-to-delayed-rains-insecurity/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25285</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8216;Suffering&#8230;without witnesses&#8217;: over a quarter of a million people perished in Somali famine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/suffering-without-witnesses-over-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-perished-in-somali-famine/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 May 2013 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Somalia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Conflict, Development, Drought, Environment, Food, Food Prices, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Poverty, War, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report estimates that 258,000 people died in 2011 during a famine in Somalia, the worst of such events in 25 years and a number at least double the highest estimations during the crisis. Over half of the victims, around 133,000, were children five and under. The report, by the UN Food and Agricultural [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new report estimates that 258,000 people died in 2011 during a famine in Somalia, the worst of such events in 25 years and a number at least double the highest estimations during the crisis. Over half of the victims, around 133,000, were children five and under. The report, by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), argues that the international community reacted too late and too little to stem the mass starvation brought on by government instability, conflict, high food prices, and failed rains, the last of which has been linked to climate change by some scientists. &#8220;The suffering played out like a drama without witnesses,&#8221; said Philippe Lazzarini, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said as the report was released, adding &#8220;we could have done more before famine was declared on 20 July 2011&#8230;warnings that began as far back as the drought in 2010 did not trigger sufficient early action. In the worst affected areas, access to people in need was tremendously difficult.&#8221; The crisis, which lasted from October 2010 to April 2012, killed 4.6 percent of the total population in Southern and Central Somalia. Ten percent of children in these regions perished. In Lower Shabelle, 18 percent of children under five died. &#8220;There is consensus that the humanitarian response to the famine was mostly late and insufficient, and that limited access to most of the affected population, resulting from widespread insecurity and operating restrictions imposed on several relief agencies, was a major constraint,&#8221; the report reads. Between May&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/05/suffering-without-witnesses-over-a-quarter-of-a-million-people-perished-in-somali-famine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Working to save the mystery antelope that&#8217;s little bigger than a pet cat  (photos)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/working-to-save-the-mystery-antelope-thats-little-bigger-than-a-pet-cat-photos/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/working-to-save-the-mystery-antelope-thats-little-bigger-than-a-pet-cat-photos/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 Apr 2013 15:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lacey Avery]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Ethiopia, and Somalia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Antelope, Conflict, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Hunting, In-situ Conservation, Mammals, Poaching, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Ungulates, War, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Little is known about the silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii) population that roams the dense coastal bushlands of eastern Africa, but experts are working to learn more about the mysterious species. Weighing little more than a domestic cat, the small antelopes are found in a long, narrow coastal strip spreading across 250 kilometers (155 miles) from [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Little is known about the silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii) population that roams the dense coastal bushlands of eastern Africa, but experts are working to learn more about the mysterious species. Weighing little more than a domestic cat, the small antelopes are found in a long, narrow coastal strip spreading across 250 kilometers (155 miles) from Somalia&#8217;s capital of Mogadishu north to the port town of Hobyo. This coastal strip is known as the Hobyo Grassland and Shrubland eco-region, according to the WWF. The eco-region features white and orange sand dunes and endemic species of birds, mammals and reptiles, but political instability has left this area largely unexplored by scientists. Of the four recognized dik-dik species scientists understand silver dik-diks the least. &#8220;We know very little about the actual silver dik-dik distribution in the Horn of Africa,&#8221; Giovanni G. Bellani told mongabay.com. As a natural scientist, Bellani studies the zoology and biodiversity of tropical ecosystems, particularly in Africa. &#8220;We do not know its ecology, its behavior or its biology.&#8221; Silver dik-dik (Madoqua piacentinii) male, found in Ogaden, Ethiopia. Photo by: Catrin Hammer for AWWP (Al Wabra Wildlife Preservation)/N.e.a.a.s.g. ( North East African subgroup of Antelope Specialist Group of IUCN). Initially thought to be the same species as the Salt&#8217;s dik-dik (Madoqua saltiana), silver dik-diks were classified as a separate species in 1978 based on its consistently smaller size, uniform silvery coat color and the length of the upper tooth row. Bellani and other scientists are analyzing the physical characteristics of silver&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/04/working-to-save-the-mystery-antelope-thats-little-bigger-than-a-pet-cat-photos/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-29141</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cute animal picture of the day: baby giraffe</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-baby-giraffe/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Nov 2012 21:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Environment, Giraffes, Green, Mammals, Photos, and Picture Of The Day]]>
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							<![CDATA[A-month-old reticualted male giraffe born at Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo&#8217;s. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Reticulated giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata), one of nine subspecies, are found in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. The world&#8217;s tallest land animal, giraffes can stand as high as 5–6 meters (16–20 feet). Giraffes are listed as Least [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A-month-old reticualted male giraffe born at Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo&#8217;s. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo. Reticulated giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata), one of nine subspecies, are found in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. The world&#8217;s tallest land animal, giraffes can stand as high as 5–6 meters (16–20 feet). Giraffes are listed as Least Concern by the IUCN Red List, however a number of the subspecies are threatened with extinction. A 2007 genetic study found that some of the subspecies may in fact be full species in their own right, which would raise conservation urgency for those imperiled. The baby giraffe already stands over six feet. Photo courtesy of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/cute-animal-picture-of-the-day-baby-giraffe/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30064</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Climate change increased the probability of Texas drought, African famine, and other extreme weather</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/climate-change-increased-the-probability-of-texas-drought-african-famine-and-other-extreme-weather/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Jul 2012 18:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Britain, East Africa, Europe, North America, Somalia, Southeast Asia, Thailand, United Kingdom, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cattle, Climate Change, Climate Science, Drought, Economics, Environment, Extreme Weather, Farming, Flooding, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Heatwave, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Science, Temperatures, Water, and Weather]]>
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							<![CDATA[Map shows the level of drought and dryness across the US in July 2011. Map courtesy US Department of Agriculture. Click to enlarge. Climate change is here and its increasing the chances for crazy weather, according to scientists. A prestigious group of climatologists have released a landmark report that makes the dramatic point that climate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Map shows the level of drought and dryness across the US in July 2011. Map courtesy US Department of Agriculture. Click to enlarge. Climate change is here and its increasing the chances for crazy weather, according to scientists. A prestigious group of climatologists have released a landmark report that makes the dramatic point that climate change is impacting our weather systems&#8212;and in turn our food crops, our economies, and even our lives&#8212;here-and-now. The new report in the American Meteorological Society is first of what is intended to be an annual offering that will attempt to tease out the connections between climate change and individual extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, droughts and floods. &#8220;2011 will be remembered as a year of extreme events, both in the United States and around the world,&#8221; Kathryn D. Sullivan, deputy administrator with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, said in a press release. &#8220;Every weather event that happens now takes place in the context of a changing global environment.&#8221; For example, researchers found that climate change made last year&#8217;s devastating drought in Texas 20 times more likely than such an event would have been just fifty years ago. &#8220;We found that extreme heat events were roughly 20 times more likely in 2008 than in other La Niña years in the 1960s and indications of an increase in frequency of low seasonal precipitation totals,&#8221; the researchers write, who used 2008 as a proxy for 2011 given data availability. Oxfam distributing water in southern Somalia during&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/07/climate-change-increased-the-probability-of-texas-drought-african-famine-and-other-extreme-weather/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30628</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8216;The real Hunger Games&#8217;: a million children at risk as Sahel region suffers punishing drought</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/the-real-hunger-games-a-million-children-at-risk-as-sahel-region-suffers-punishing-drought/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 May 2012 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Niger, Sahel, Somalia, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Environment, Food, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, and Poverty]]>
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							<![CDATA[Livestock lay dead during the East Africa famine last year. Photo by: Oxfam East Africa. The UN warns that a million children in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region. In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Livestock lay dead during the East Africa famine last year. Photo by: Oxfam East Africa. The UN warns that a million children in Africa&#8217;s Sahel region face malnutrition due to drought in region. In all 15 million people face food insecurity in eight nations across the Sahel, a region that is still recovering from drought and a food crisis of 2010. Un some countries the situation is worsened by conflict. &#8220;We estimate that in 2012 there will be over a million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition&#8212;what’s important to know is that malnutrition can kill,&#8221; UNICEF’s Director of Emergency Programs, Louis-Georges Arsenault, said in a press release. &#8220;We need more resources to really scale up our response before it becomes too late and too many lives are lost.&#8221; UNICEF is asking for $120 million in the region to stave off the crisis, but has received only half to date. Experts repeatedly stress that the time to act in these situations is before the hunger crisis grows acute. Recently visiting Niger, the Executive Director of the World Food Program (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, and the High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, released a joint statement warning, &#8220;the window of opportunity to save lives is narrowing by the day.&#8221; &#8220;In the Ouallam and Maradi regions [of Niger], we saw fathers and mothers struggling to feed their families in villages where hunger has already taken hold in advance of the traditional hunger season,&#8221; the statement read. &#8220;The hungry poor&#8212;whether small-holder farmers or pastoralists&#8212;face a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/05/the-real-hunger-games-a-million-children-at-risk-as-sahel-region-suffers-punishing-drought/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-30948</doi>				</item>
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					<title>&#8220;Strong evidence&#8221; linking extreme heatwaves, floods, and droughts to climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/strong-evidence-linking-extreme-heatwaves-floods-and-droughts-to-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Mar 2012 11:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, East Africa, Europe, Russia, Somalia, South Korea, Thailand, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Climate Change, Climate Science, Disasters, Drought, Environment, Extreme Weather, Flooding, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Heatwave, Hunger, Impact Of Climate Change, Precipitation, and Temperatures]]>
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							<![CDATA[NASA map shows temperature anomalies from March 13-19, 2012 as compared to the same eight day period during the past 12 years based on data captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA&#8217;s Terra satellite. Click to enlarge. As North America recovers from what noted meteorologist Jeff Masters has called &#8220;the most [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[NASA map shows temperature anomalies from March 13-19, 2012 as compared to the same eight day period during the past 12 years based on data captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA&#8217;s Terra satellite. Click to enlarge. As North America recovers from what noted meteorologist Jeff Masters has called &#8220;the most incredible spring heatwave in U.S. and Canadian recorded history,&#8221; a new paper argues that climate change is playing an important role in a world that appears increasingly pummeled by extreme weather. Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper surveys recent studies of climate change and extreme weather and finds &#8220;strong evidence&#8221; of a link between a warming world and the frequency and intensity of droughts, floods, and heatwaves&#8212;such as the one that turned winter into summer in the U.S. &#8220;The question is whether these weather extremes are coincidental or a result of climate change,&#8221; says lead author, Dim Coumou, with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), in a press release. &#8220;Global warming can generally not be proven to cause individual extreme events&#8212;but in the sum of events the link to climate change becomes clear. It is not a question of yes or no, but a question of probabilities.&#8221; Coumou and other climatologists have begun to refer to this extreme climate phenomenon as playing with &#8220;loaded dice.&#8221; In other words, prior to climate change, extreme weather events occurred within historical statistical norms, but now they are occurring more frequently as climate change has &#8220;fixed&#8221;&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/03/strong-evidence-linking-extreme-heatwaves-floods-and-droughts-to-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31120</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Delayed response to Somalia famine cost thousands of lives</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/01/delayed-response-to-somalia-famine-cost-thousands-of-lives/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Jan 2012 20:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[A hesitant response by the international community likely led to thousands of unnecessary deaths in last year&#8217;s famine in East Africa finds a new report released by Oxfam and Save the Children. The report, entitled A Dangerous Delay, says that early warning systems worked in informing the international community about the likelihood of a dire [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A hesitant response by the international community likely led to thousands of unnecessary deaths in last year&#8217;s famine in East Africa finds a new report released by Oxfam and Save the Children. The report, entitled A Dangerous Delay, says that early warning systems worked in informing the international community about the likelihood of a dire food crisis in East Africa, however a &#8220;culture of risk aversion&#8221; led to months-long delays. By the time aid arrived it was already too late for many. The British government has estimated somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people perished in the famine, half of whom were likely children under five. &#8220;We all bear responsibility for this dangerous delay that cost lives in East Africa and need to learn the lessons of the late response,&#8221; Oxfam’s Chief Executive, Barbara Stocking, candidly stated in a press release. &#8220;It&#8217;s shocking that the poorest people are still bearing the brunt of a failure to respond swiftly and decisively. We know that acting early saves lives but collective risk aversion meant aid agencies were reluctant to spend money until they were certain there was a crisis.&#8221; Crippled by a desire not to look wrong, the international community waited until the food disaster was in full-swing before moving forward. Blame for the late response was spread around in the report, signaling the need for changes to be made throughout the international community. &#8220;All actors&#8212;governments, donors, NGOs, the UN&#8212;need to change the way they do things to make a bigger difference to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/01/delayed-response-to-somalia-famine-cost-thousands-of-lives/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-31453</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2011</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2011/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Dec 2011 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jeremy HanceRhett Ayers Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Arctic, Asia, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil, Britain, East Africa, Europe, Greenland, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, North America, Norway, Russia, Somalia, South America, Tanzania, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Animals, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Crime, Dams, Deforestation, Disasters, Drought, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Fish, Fishing, Food, Forestry, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Governance, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hunger, Hydroelectric Power, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Law Enforcement, Mammals, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Migration, Mitigation, Nuclear Power, Oceans, Oil, Oil Spills, Overpopulation, Parks, Poaching, Politics, Pollution, Population, Poverty, Protected Areas, Protests, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Rhinos, Roads, Saving Rainforests, Saving Species From Extinction, Sharks, Solutions, Temperatures, Threats To Rainforests, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Medicine, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Water, Water Scarcity, Weather, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Victories won by activists around the world tops our list of the big environmental stories of the year. In this photo: a young woman is placed in handcuffs and arrested for civil disobedience against the Keystone XL Pipeline in the U.S. In all, 1,252 people were arrested in the two week long action. Photo by: [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Victories won by activists around the world tops our list of the big environmental stories of the year. In this photo: a young woman is placed in handcuffs and arrested for civil disobedience against the Keystone XL Pipeline in the U.S. In all, 1,252 people were arrested in the two week long action. Photo by: Josh Lopez/Tar Sands Action. People flex their strength, climate change accelerates, and Indonesia works to stem deforestation. Below is a review of some of the biggest environmental stories of 2011. People power: activism makes good (Hance) Many of 2011&#8217;s most dramatic stories on environmental issues came from people taking to the streets. With governments and corporations slow to tackle massive environmental problems, people have begun to assert themselves. Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three-year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/top-10-environmental-stories-of-2011/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Famine in Africa: Can Reforestation Improve Food Security?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/famine-in-africa-can-reforestation-improve-food-security/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Sep 2011 05:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Karimeh Moukaddem]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Kenya, and Somalia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Food, Green, Hunger, Poverty, and Reforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation worsens famine in Africa, but drylands restoration could help. Millions of people across the Horn of Africa are suffering under a crippling regional drought and tens of thousands have died during the accompanying famine. Refuge camps in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia are swelling with the hungry. The best hope in the short-term is food [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Deforestation worsens famine in Africa, but drylands restoration could help. Millions of people across the Horn of Africa are suffering under a crippling regional drought and tens of thousands have died during the accompanying famine. Refuge camps in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia are swelling with the hungry. The best hope in the short-term is food aid and logistical support, but in the longer term, dryland reforestation efforts may help improve food security, argues a new report from the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which links human-caused land degradation, including deforestation, to intensified drought. &#8220;There is a mistaken view that because these are dry areas, they are destined to provide little in the way of food and are simply destined to endure frequent famines, but dryland can and do support significant crop and livestock production. In fact, the famine we are seeing today is mainly a product of neglect, not nature,&#8221; states Dennis Garrity, director general of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) alert for September on the Horn of Africa region Recent research by CGIAR&#8217;s Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in 25 countries found forests are critical defenses against poverty, providing a quarter of household income for those living in or around them. In particular, agroforestry efforts offer improvements in farm productivity and food security in Africa&#8217;s drylands. Forest resources provide fodder and fertilizer for small farms, which benefit by planting trees on site. When planted as windbreaks, trees fortify the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/09/famine-in-africa-can-reforestation-improve-food-security/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Photos: World Food Program works to save lives in East Africa famine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/photos-world-food-program-works-to-save-lives-in-east-africa-famine/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Aug 2011 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Famine victims in Kenya. Children are the most vulnerable during a famine. At the beginning of August the US estimated that 29,000 children under five had perished from the famine over the past 90 days. Photo by: © Rebecca Richards/WFP. Over 12 million people across East Africa are imperiled by a hunger crisis brought on [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Famine victims in Kenya. Children are the most vulnerable during a famine. At the beginning of August the US estimated that 29,000 children under five had perished from the famine over the past 90 days. Photo by: © Rebecca Richards/WFP. Over 12 million people across East Africa are imperiled by a hunger crisis brought on by extreme drought. The worst of the crisis is in Somalia, where famine has been declared in 5 areas of Somalia to date&#8212;the first famine to be declared by the UN in three decades. Somalia is unique, because here the drought has been exacerbated by a long-failed government and militants. Refugee camps have been set up in Kenya and Ethiopia, but are strained. A number of aid groups are working on the ground to provide emergency food and medical attention to hunger victims, but funding is still below what is needed. The largest group is probably the UN&#8217;s World Food Program (WFP). Mongabay.com spoke to Dena Gubaitis, Communications Officer for the WFP, for background on the famine and how relief efforts are going on the ground. INTERVIEW WITH DENA GUDAITIS Mongabay: What is the WFP&#8217;s background? Dena Gudaitis: The World Food Program is the largest humanitarian agency in the world, currently operating in some 70 countries aiming to feed 90 million people annually. You can find a lot of information on our website: including photos, video, beneficiary stories, docs, etc. Mongabay: Will you give us an overall picture of the disaster: what areas are impacted,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/photos-world-food-program-works-to-save-lives-in-east-africa-famine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32085</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Famine spreads: 29,000 young children perish</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/famine-spreads-29000-young-children-perish/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2011 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Djibouti, East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the UN announces that famine has spread in Somalia to three additional regions (making five in total now), the US has put the first number to the amount of children under 5 who have so far perished from starvation in the last 90 days: 29,000. Nearly half of the total population of Somalia is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the UN announces that famine has spread in Somalia to three additional regions (making five in total now), the US has put the first number to the amount of children under 5 who have so far perished from starvation in the last 90 days: 29,000. Nearly half of the total population of Somalia is currently in need of emergency food assistance. Yet, the al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab, which controls parts of Somalia, has made bringing assistance to many of the malnourished incredibly difficult, if not impossible. The famine in Somalia has been brought-on by lack of governance combined with crippling droughts throughout East Africa, which some experts have linked to climate change. High food prices worldwide and a lagging response by the international community and donors have made matters only worse. &#8220;Despite increased attention in recent weeks, current humanitarian response remains inadequate, due in part to ongoing access restrictions and difficulties in scaling‐up emergency assistance programs, as well as funding gaps. As a result, famine is expected to spread across all regions of the south in the coming four to six weeks and is likely to persist until at least December 2011,&#8221; reads a press release from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network. According to some reports, al-Shabaab has been working to stop refugees from escaping Somalia into neighboring Kenya. Some refugees may even have been killed by al-Shabaab militants. Still, hundreds of thousands of Somalians have reached Kenya, overwhelming camps and emergency assistance there. One camp called Dadaab&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/08/famine-spreads-29000-young-children-perish/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32172</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tens of thousands starving to death in East Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/tens-of-thousands-starving-to-death-in-east-africa/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Jul 2011 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[As the US media is focused like a laser on theatric debt talks and the UK media is agog at the heinous Rupert Murdoch scandal, millions of people are undergoing a starvation crisis in East Africa. The UN has upgraded the disaster—driven by high food prices, conflict, and prolonged drought linked by some to climate [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the US media is focused like a laser on theatric debt talks and the UK media is agog at the heinous Rupert Murdoch scandal, millions of people are undergoing a starvation crisis in East Africa. The UN has upgraded the disaster—driven by high food prices, conflict, and prolonged drought linked by some to climate change—to famine in parts of Somalia today. Mark Bowden, UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, has said that tens of thousands Somalis have died from malnutrition recently, &#8220;the majority of whom were children.&#8221; The upgrade of the disaster includes two regions in southern Somalia—lower Shabelle and southern Bakool—both controlled by Shabaab Islamist who are battling with Somalia&#8217;s government for control. Affiliated with al-Qaeda, the group has recently lifted a ban on food aid for the regions. According to the UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) famine is defined as an estimated mortality rate of over 2 people per 10,000 every day, a malnutrition rate of over 30 percent for children under five, and 20 percent of households experiencing extreme food shortages. Despite the severity of the crisis, which is also devastating parts of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Dijbouti, emergency aid money is not flowing in fast enough. The aid group Oxfam says an additional $800 million is needed to save people on-the ground. The UN is asking for an additional $300 million for Somalia alone. &#8220;There is no time to waste if we are to avoid massive loss of life. We must not stand by and watch this&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/07/tens-of-thousands-starving-to-death-in-east-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-32233</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Dari Kamboja ke Kalifornia: 10 hutan yang paling terancam di dunia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/dari-kamboja-ke-kalifornia-10-hutan-yang-paling-terancam-di-dunia/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Mar 2011 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Atlantic Forest, Borneo, Brazil, California, Cambodia, China, East Africa, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Somalia, Southeast Asia, Tanzania, Thailand, United States, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Bushmeat, Cattle, Climate Change, Consumption, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Services, Forest Carbon, Forestry, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Logging, Palm Oil, Peatlands, Plantations, Plants, Population, Poverty, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Ranching, Roads, Temperate Forests, Threats To Rainforests, Timber, Tropical Forests, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Keterangan pers dari Conservation International awalnya memasukkan Selandia Baru sebagai negara dengan hutan paling terancam kedua di dunia, padahal sebenarnya posisi itu diduduki oleh hutan di Kaledonia Baru Hutan-hutan di Asia-Pasifik adalah yang paling terancam, termasuk 5 dari 10 hutan paling terancam di dunia. Populasi yang sedang tumbuh, pertanian yang sedang berkembang, komoditi seperti minyak [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Keterangan pers dari Conservation International awalnya memasukkan Selandia Baru sebagai negara dengan hutan paling terancam kedua di dunia, padahal sebenarnya posisi itu diduduki oleh hutan di Kaledonia Baru Hutan-hutan di Asia-Pasifik adalah yang paling terancam, termasuk 5 dari 10 hutan paling terancam di dunia. Populasi yang sedang tumbuh, pertanian yang sedang berkembang, komoditi seperti minyak kelapa sawit dan kertas, penebangan hutan, perluasan perkotaan, penambangan, dan dampak-dampak manusia lainnya telah mendorong banyak hutan-hutan besar di dunia ke ambang kepunahan. Namun para ilmuwan, ahli lingkungan, dan bahkan beberapa pembuat kebijakan semakin mengingatkan bahwa hutan lebih bermanfaat apabila hutan itu masih berdiri daripada bila hutan itu ditebang. Mereka berargumentasi bahwa dengan melindungi keragaman hayati yang rentan, mengikat karbon, mengendalikan erosi, dan menyediakan air yang bersih, hutan memberikan pelayanan kepada kemanusiaan, belum lagi kemanfaatan yang tak bisa diukur bahwa kita memiliki tempat yang masih liar, di dunia yang semakin banyak dimodifikasi oleh manusia. Tetapi masih saja penurunan luas hutan dunia berlanjut: FAO memperkirakan bahwa sekitar 10 juta hektar hutan tropis menghilang setiap tahunnya. Tentu saja, sebagian dari hutan ini lebih terancam dibanding hutan lainnya, dan analisis yang baru oleh Conservation International (CI) telah menghasilkan daftar 10 hutan dunia yang paling terancam. Daftar tersebut mencakup hutan-hutan yang sudah kehilangan 90% dari luas aslinya, tetapi masih merupakan hotspot bagi keragaman hayati, yang ditunjukkan oleh minimal 1.500 spesies endemik tanaman yang tercatat di setiap hutan. Menurut CI, hutan-hutan di Asia-Pasifik adalah yang paling terancam di dunia dengan 5 hutan termasuk di dalam 10 hutan tersebut, termasuk 4&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/03/dari-kamboja-ke-kalifornia-10-hutan-yang-paling-terancam-di-dunia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>From Cambodia to California: the world&#8217;s top 10 most threatened forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/from-cambodia-to-california-the-worlds-top-10-most-threatened-forests/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Feb 2011 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[The press release from Conservation International originally listed New Zealand as possessing the world&#8217;s 2nd most threatened forests when in fact it is New Caledonia&#8217;s forests. Asia-Pacific forests are the most endangered, including 5 of the top 10 threatened forests. Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The press release from Conservation International originally listed New Zealand as possessing the world&#8217;s 2nd most threatened forests when in fact it is New Caledonia&#8217;s forests. Asia-Pacific forests are the most endangered, including 5 of the top 10 threatened forests. Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, and other human impacts have pushed many of the world&#8217;s great forests to the brink. Yet scientists, environmentalists, and even some policymakers increasingly warn that forests are worth more standing than felled. They argue that by safeguarding vulnerable biodiversity, sequestering carbon, controlling erosion, and providing fresh water, forests provide services to humanity, not to mention the unquantifiable importance of having wild places in an increasingly human-modified world. Still, the decline of the world&#8217;s forests continues: the FAO estimating that around 10 million hectares of tropical forest are lost every year. Of course, some of these forests are more imperiled than others, and a new analysis by Conservation International (CI) has cataloged the world&#8217;s 10 most threatened forests. The list catalogs forests that have already lost 90% of their original extent, but are still hotspots for biodiversity, represented by at least 1,500 recorded endemic species of plants in each forest. According to CI, Asian-Pacific forests are the most imperiled in the world with five of the top 10 forests, including the first four. In contrast, Africa has three of the top 10 (when one includes the island of Madagascar), while South American and North America have&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/02/from-cambodia-to-california-the-worlds-top-10-most-threatened-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Deforestation continues in Somalia despite charcoal ban</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2011/01/deforestation-continues-in-somalia-despite-charcoal-ban/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jan 2011 22:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Emily Kirkland]]>
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							<![CDATA[IRIN News, a news service operated by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, has reported that charcoal production in Somalia is continuing to rise despite a government ban. Charcoal production has long been one of the principal drivers of deforestation in Somalia. The charcoal, which is usually smuggled out of the country illegally for sale [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[IRIN News, a news service operated by the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs, has reported that charcoal production in Somalia is continuing to rise despite a government ban. Charcoal production has long been one of the principal drivers of deforestation in Somalia. The charcoal, which is usually smuggled out of the country illegally for sale in the Gulf States, also provides a source of income for Islamic militias like al Shabaab, which control large parts of Somalia in open defiance of the Western-backed government. In December, in an effort to reduce deforestation and cut off income to the militias, the Somalian government instituted a ban on charcoal exports. The ban has not been entirely useless; in fact, traders have almost entirely stopped shipping charcoal out of some ports, including Mogadishu and Merka, in response to government efforts. Only five days ago, fourteen Indian traders were convicted of illegally exporting charcoal and forced to pay $10,000 each in fines. That said, the government lacks the ability to effectively police some southern ports, most notably Kismayo, which now handles 80-90% of the illegal charcoal trade. There, locals are reporting that charcoal production has actually increased over the past few months. They say that producers are also beginning to use more sophisticated equipment. In 2000, the UN estimated that Somalia was producing 112,000 metric tons of charcoal per year. About 80% of charcoal produced is destined for export to Dubai, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, where a bag of charcoal is worth about&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2011/01/deforestation-continues-in-somalia-despite-charcoal-ban/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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