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 Stories About: Congo AND rainforests
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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 |
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| 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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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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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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