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Do the Congo?
Gigantic hydropower dam planned for Congo River |
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21 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 2:44 PM on 21 Apr 2008 Some of the world's largest banks and construction firms gathered with seven African governments Monday to chat about plans for an $80 billion hydroelectric dam on the Congo River. The proposed Grand Inga dam could generate twice the electricity of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam and greatly increase the amount of cheap and clean power currently available in Africa, according to supporters. &qu ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Congo, dams, energy, hydropower, news (all these topics) |
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They Tried to Make Me Go to a Reserve, I Said Bonobo
Congo nature preserve set up to protect bonobos |
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20 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:04 AM on 20 Nov 2007 A swath of Congo rainforest larger than the state of Massachusetts will be designated as a nature reserve in a collaborative effort between American and Congolese environmental groups and agencies. Advocates hope the reserve will be a significant step toward protecting the endangered bonobo, one of humans' closest ape relations. Bonobos, which live only in the Co ... |
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| Topics: Congo, news, progress, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Gaffe All the Way to the Bank
World Bank encourages destructive logging in the Congo, says report |
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05 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 4:21 PM on 05 Oct 2007 The World Bank's encouragement of industrial forestry as a means of economic recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is counter to the organization's legal commitment to protecting the environment, according to a new report. An independent inspection panel charges that the bank overestimated possible export revenue from forestry, leading to a logging scramb ... |
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| Topics: Congo, logging, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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The most moving environmental story of the year
Newsweek's cover story deserves Pulitzer -- and global action |
Glenn Hurowitz |
12 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Congo, extinction, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Good News, Sad News
Six species discovered in Congo, four endangered gorillas shot |
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09 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Good News, Sad News Six species discovered in Congo, four endangered gorillas shot A research expedition to a remote forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo found six new animal species -- a bat, a rat, two shrews, and two frogs -- and may have found new plant species as well. The trip, which ran from January to March and was led by the Wildlife Conservation Society, represented ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, Congo, endangered species, extinction, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Hitting Them Where It Hurts
Rebels kill ranger in Congolese national park, threaten officials and gorillas |
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24 May 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Hitting Them Where It Hurts Rebels kill ranger in Congolese national park, threaten officials and gorillas Rebels attacked three ranger posts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Virunga National Park this weekend, killing one wildlife officer, wounding three more, and taking 13 hostages. While the human prisoners were released, the Mai Mai rebels still have hostages of a sort: they have made it clear that they'll start kill ... |
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| Topics: biodiversity, Congo, news (all these topics) |
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Heads You Lose, Tails I Win
World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study |
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12 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Heads You Lose, Tails I Win World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study You've probably developed an immunity to scandal and outrage, but we'll keep plying you with it anyway: a two-year study by Greenpeace International has found that in the past three years, Congolese village chiefs have handed over vast expanses of the world's second-largest rainforest to Eu ... |
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| Topics: business, Congo, Greenpeace, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics) |
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The Threat Set
Polar bear and hippo added to list of at-risk species |
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02 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Threat Set Polar bear and hippo added to list of at-risk species Animals and plants considered threatened with extinction now number 16,119, including 20 percent of assessed shark and ray species, the polar bear, and the common (no-longer-happy) hippopotamus. So says the latest Red List of Threatened Species, produced after two years of study by the World Conservation Union (confusingly acronymed IUCN). ... |
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| Topics: Congo, news, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics) |
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Leaf Those Plants Alone
An African wildlife reserve is saved, thanks to Corneille Ewango |
Michelle Nijhuis |
19 Apr 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Corneille Ewango. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. In the vast Democratic Republic of the Congo, dense equatorial rainforests line the sprawling basin of the Congo River. Corneille E.N. Ewango, a Congolese botanist, has a particular appreciation for these lush stands, which represent about half of the continent's tropical forests. To him, they are a scientific puzzle, a ref ... |
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| Topics: Congo, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Reserve Judgment
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06 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Reserve Judgment Concerned about threats to Africa's remaining rainforest, the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society has been forming closer ties with logging companies. The group believes that in some cases, working hand-in-hand with loggers is the best way to protect what's left. Last year, the group helped negotiate a deal that traded away 260 square miles of the 2,000-square-mile Lope ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Congo, Gabon, logging, New York, rainforests (all these topics) |
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