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Washington Park Summer Festival seizes the day
2013-08-02 19:18:22| PortlandOnline
Last night, the Portland Gay Men's Chorus kicked off the Washington Park Summer Festival with an outstanding performance.
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Mesopotamian Marshlands Declared Iraqs First National Park
2013-08-02 18:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Drained by development and nearly destroyed under Saddam Husseins regime, the Central Marshes of Iraq have now been declared the countrys first national park. The Iraqi Council of Ministers approved the designation on July 23. The efforts to declare this unique landscape a park and protected area began in 2006 through a joint effort by Iraqs Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Environment, and Ministry of Municipalities with support from Nature Iraq, an Iraqi environmental conservation organization,...
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La Roche-Posay Takes Over NYC Park for Parasol of Protection
2013-08-02 07:00:00| Happi Breaking News
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Africa's Oldest National Park may be Put at Risk by Oil Exploration
2013-08-01 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A proposal by British oil-exploration company Soco International to look for oil in Africa's oldest national park is being criticized by the conservation group World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), which says Soco's plan puts the park's true value at risk. Soco International wants to explore for oil beneath Lake Edward, which exists within Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. About two-thirds of the lake is within the DRC's political boundary, the rest is in western...
Democratic Republic of Congo: Oil exploration could lead to 'devastating consequences' in Virunga Park
2013-08-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Soco International Plc is the only company still intending to exploit its licence in the Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the setting for the film Gorillas in the Mist. In a study published today, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) calls on Soco to follow Total, the French petro-giant, which promised in May to halt its search for oil inside the 87-year-old reserve. London-based Soco holds rights to explore an area twice the size of Kent, half of it inside the...
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