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Thoughts on Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD)
2013-05-29 03:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Field Museum: Friday before last, Camila Duarte and I spent the day down at the University of Chicago. Camila is a visiting Brazilian student who has worked with colleague Camila Ribas in Manaus, Brazil. She will be gathering molecular data on several species of birds that inhabit white sand forests in the Amazon Basin over the next five months. Camila and I were attending a all-day symposium entitled Conserving more than carbon: valuing biodiversity in a changing world at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science...
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Panamanians reject UN forest plan
2013-05-28 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Indigenous people in Panama are asking the United Nations to close down its global forestry programme, REDD, in their country. REDD -- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation -- is designed to slow climate change by preventing the destruction of the worlds most vulnerable forests. It is a key part of the UN`s attempts to tackle a warming climate, and failure in Panama will have impacts much further afield. The demand, by the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples...
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Canada's vast boreal forest a biodiversity hotspot
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you missed it and forgot to send a card -- as did I -- Wednesday was the International Day for Biodiversity. What's biodiversity? Ask most people, and they think it's related to the number of species in a particular area. The more species, the more biodiversity. So, naturally, they think of places like the Amazon as being biodiversity strongholds. But a report from the Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited begs to differ. They think other characteristics -- concentrations...
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Forest Labs' longtime CEO Solomon to step down at year-end
2013-05-24 13:25:28| Biotech - Topix.net
Forest Laboratories Inc said Howard Solomon, its chief executive of more than 35 years, will retire at the end of this year, capping a tenure that saw the company morph from a small generic and vitamins maker to a $10 billion corporation.
Forest certification body revokes Swiss logging company's certificate over alleged Congo abuses
2013-05-22 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a body that certifies forest management practices, has revoked all certificates granted to the Danzer Group, a multinational logging company, over alleged human rights abuses by one of its former subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), reports Bloomberg. According to a complaint filed by Greenpeace, the subsidiary, Siforco, provided financial and logistical support to Congolese police and military forces in a May 2011 attack against a community...
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