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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Ah, Summer in Rwanda African nations try to bring in eco-tourists		12 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Ah, Summer in Rwanda African nations try to bring in eco-tourists African nations are hoping to boost their economies by attracting the ecologically curious, following the example of nations like Costa Rica, which thrives on ecotourism. The island nation of Madagascar has boosted protection of forests and wetlands and boasts biodiversity rivaled only by the rainforests of Brazil. Other countries r ...
Topics: Africa, Conservation International, news, Rwanda, travel (all these topics)

Silence Is Beholden Are corporations hog-tying conservation groups in CAFTA fight?	Liza Grandia, et al	02 Jun 2005	Soapbox
Macaws and effect in Central America. A year ago, President Bush signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement. Since then, the controversial plan has inspired protests across the U.S. and in Central America. And while past trade agreements have been ratified by Congress in less than two months, the Bush administration has delayed the vote on CAFTA multiple times, unable to ra ...
Topics: business, Central America, Conservation International, environmental justice, globalization, Nature Conservancy, politics, United States, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Half and Half		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Half and Half In the interest of living up to our reputation for providing the occasional sliver of cheery environmental news, Grist is pleased to report that notwithstanding rampant ecological degradation, nearly half of the land on Earth remains undeveloped and unpopulated, according to an international study released earlier this week. The study -- the most comprehensive such ...
Topics: Antarctica, Arctic, Conservation International, land degradation, wildlife (all these topics)

Moore Is More		10 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Moore Is More In the largest gift ever to a single environmental group, the foundation created by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore announced yesterday that it would give Conservation International $261 million over 10 years. The money will help the Washington, D.C.-based group identify and protect biodiversity hotspots, areas that CI says cover 1.4 percent of the Earth's land mass but contain 60 ...
Topics: business, Conservation International, Washington DC, wildlife (all these topics)

Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides		14 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Double Tall, Hold the Pesticides Starbucks announced this week that it will pay an extra 10 cents per pound for coffee beans that are grown on environmentally and socially responsible farms. The announcement, which was made at a growers conference in Costa Rica, comes at a time when a world coffee surplus has depressed wholesale ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Conservation International, Costa Rica, food and agriculture, green living, recycling (all these topics)

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