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Using forests to finance conservation and communities in a former war zone: Colombia's Choco by Mongabay, 04-11-2009
The emergence of payments for ecosystem services mechanisms like REDD now offers communities in the Chocó an alternative development model that could allow them to continue using their lands for traditional activities...
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Last gasp for the forest by The Economist, 29-09-2009
A new climate treaty could provide a highly effective way to reduce carbon emissions by paying people to not cut down forests.
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[ UNFCCC | REDD & AD | Central/South America | Forest Peoples | Ecosystem Services ]
Forests fight back as Indonesia tackles illegal palm oil by Reuters, 29-09-2009
In the country's first, symbolic action to stop the lucrative crop's march into protected lands a chainsaw-wielding alliance led by the Aceh Conservation Agency (BPKEL), Acehnese NGOs, and police teams are sweeping tens of thousands of hectares of illegal palm from the 2.5 million hectare Leuser Ecosystem.
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[ REDD & AD | Central/South America | Forest Peoples | Ecosystem Services | Policy ]
Teaching Ecologists the Economics of Nature by The Ecosystem Marketplace, 07-09-2009
Conservationists can protect nature by demonstrating the value of ecosystem services and showing which development projects deliver the most benefits at the lowest environmental cost. John Reid's Conservation Strategy Fund is equipping environmentalists around the world with the requisite economics know-how and showing them how to communicate findings to decision-makers.
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Top Brazilian Organizations Unite in Alliance to Fight Climate Change by Reuters, 04-09-2009
Fourteen major Brazilian organizations representing the agribusiness, planted forests and bioenergy sectors announced today the creation of the Brazilian Climate Alliance, with the goal of contributing with solid proposals for the negotiations related to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Paying to save the rainforests by Nature, 02-09-2009
Along the Trans-Amazonian Highway in the Brazilian state of Pará, many landowners try to boost their income by clearing a hectare or two each year for farms or cattle grazing. This year, however, may be different: if all goes to plan, around 350 families will receive payments to put rainforest preservation first.
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[ REDD & AD | Central/South America | Ecosystem Services | Policy ]
Adidas, Clarks, Nike and Timberland agree moratorium on illegal Amazon leather by Telegraph, 05-08-2009
Leading shoemakers, including adidas, Clarks, Nike and Timberland, have demanded suppliers stop sending them leather from illegal ranches in the Amazon, after Greenpeace published a report highlighting the problem.
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Deforestation is 'key climate issue' by BBC News, 05-08-2009
Set deep in among the southern edge of the Amazon rainforest, the Xingu Indigenous Park seems isolated from the problems of the world. But the tribal leaders here were pleased to welcome a British minister who will play a key role in this year's summit in Copenhagen on climate change.
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Brazilian soy industry extends moratorium on Amazon deforestation by Mongabay, 29-07-2009
The Brazilian soy industry has agreed to extend a moratorium on soy production in newly deforested areas in the Amazon rainforest, reports Greenpeace. The moratorium has been in place since 2006.
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[ Certification | Central/South America | Ecosystem Services ]
Can Roads and Rain Forests Co-Exist? by Dot Earth, 28-07-2009
Natalie Angier has a fascinating piece in the Week in Review section describing one unexpected result of recent bursts of rain-forest road building — a boom in the discovery of mammal species, including the saddleback tamarain, found in a newly developed region not far from Manaus, the heart of human-dominated Amazonia.
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