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Protected areas successfully prevent deforestation in Amazon rainforest
2013-03-11 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, two University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues have found. In addition, protected areas established primarily to safeguard the rights and livelihoods of indigenous people performed especially well in places where deforestation pressures are high. The U-M-led...
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Protected Sick Time Code proposal 2-28-13 (clean version)
2013-03-01 05:33:38| PortlandOnline
Word Document, 33kbCategory: What Happened?
Protected Sick Time proposal 2-28-13 showing changes since 1-18-13
2013-03-01 05:32:19| PortlandOnline
Word Document, 49kbCategory: What Happened?
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Indonesia: Aceh Governor Wants to Allow More Logging in Protected Forests: Report
2013-02-13 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Spatial zoning proposals for Aceh indicate that the provinces governor is seeking to open up more than 52,000 hectares of protected forest there to logging, a conservation group warns. In a report published on Tuesday, the group Greenomics Indonesia found that the spatial plans proposed by Governor Zaini Abdullah would change the status of vast tracts of protected forest to production forest. The report reveals that there are five large blocks of [protected] forest each more than 2,000 hectares...
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Peru: Gas company targets protected Manú park
2013-02-11 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An energy company is eyeing up the gas reserves of a national park in the Peruvian Amazon whose biodiversity Unesco says "exceeds that of any other place on Earth" and is home to indigenous people who have no regular contact with the outside world, a leaked document seen by the Guardian shows. The revelation about Manú national park follows rumours and reports circulating in Peru that the government will create a gas concession bordering or including parts of the park, but which have not been...
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