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 Stories About: Asia AND logging AND wildlife
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Burma Save Logging keeps Asian elephants in business ... for now |
Jennifer Hile |
13 Sep 2005 |
Main Dish |
| At a fork in the road, our guide points to the right. "That's the main road there," he says. "We'll go on this smaller road, deep into the jungle." A glance to the left reveals a narrow, unpaved track, which he tells us is used primarily by logging trucks. It's the dry season in Myanmar, and dead leaves hang like bats above us. The truck's idling motor blends with the cacophony of in ... |
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| Topics: Asia, globalization, logging, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Every Which Way but Laos Laos' Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing |
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26 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Every Which Way but Laos Laos' Natural Resources Are Rapidly Disappearing A perfect storm of widespread poverty, corrupt and inefficient communist leadership, and international indifference has made the Southeast Asian nation of Laos a virtual case study in environmental decline. Although it is one of the world's poorest and least developed nations, Laos is rich with natural resources, which represent an almost-irresistible source ... |
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| Topics: Asia, logging, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened |
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10 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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