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Huge Swath Amazon Preserved in Record-Setting Deal

2014-05-26 20:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yahoo: On May 21, the Brazilian government, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and partners announced the creation of a $215 million fund to ensure long-term protection of the world's largest network of protected areas 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. It's not often as conservationists that we get to celebrate such a big win. I've been working in the Amazon for 25 years originally studying the ecology and behavior of spider monkeys but not until today have I been able to claim such...

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Via route preserved in New Brunswick with $10M from Ottawa

2014-05-12 15:30:40| Railroads - Topix.net

Federal Transport Minister wants New Brunswick and local communities to do more to encourage ridership on the Via route through the province.

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Cultural heritage site preserved by local nonprofit

2014-03-22 01:33:58| Airlines - Topix.net

It's taken years of battling to preserve acres of land in Hawaii Kai... Now... Hawaii Kai's HAwea Heiau complex and Keawawa wetland will now be community owned and managed as a Hawaiian cultural heritage preserve.

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Why Burma's forests must be preserved

2013-11-28 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: For the first time in more than 50 years, a team of wildlife film-makers has been permitted to venture deep into Burma's barely penetrable jungles. The expedition's insect expert, Ross Piper, explains why the country's forests are special and, in his view, deserve protection. Closed to outsiders for five decades, Burma, also known as Myanmar, is something of an unknown quantity, particularly in terms of its natural riches. The country is right in the centre of the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot,...

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