JAKARTA (Reuters) – Foreign nations share the blame for the destruction of Indonesian forests and should pitch in to help restore them, Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Friday.
Indonesia, host of a U.N. climate change conference in December, has been a driving force behind calls for rich
countries to compensate poor states that preserve their [...]

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Vast tracts of rainforest in Brazil are to get a new protected status. The segments of land in the northern Para state together cover 15 million hectares (57,915 sq miles), an area of land that is bigger than England.
Thousands of wildlife species inhabit the pristine forest, including jaguars, anteaters and colorful macaws.
Campaigners [...]

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SitNews – US House Votes Spending Millions on Logging Roads Isn’t Good Investment.
Thursday the U.S. House agreed that spending taxpayer dollars on building logging roads on the Tongass National Forest is not a good investment. The amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill which calls for ending subsidies for logging roads was sponsored by Republican Representative [...]

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AEP Dedicates Environmental Education Center in Brazil
GUARAQUECABA, Brazil, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today, representatives from American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP – News) and General Motors (GM) dedicated a new visitors’ center for environmental education on the Cachoeira River Natural Reserve, located in the state of Parana in Brazil.
The dedication highlights AEP’s involvement in the Guaraquecaba [...]

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laurieton.yourguide.
Middle rock makeover Wednesday, 27 April 2005
MIDDLE Rock Lake Cathie will receive a major makeover at the end of the month. The area, with its significant rainforest vegetation, was targeted as a starting point for a coastal restoration project which aims to protect and restore the vegetation and amenity of the southern coastal [...]

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Veracel: Restoring the Atlantic rainforest makes sound economic sense
 

By Jyrki Iivonen in Eunápolis, Brazil     
 "We are not responsible for the mistakes of the past, and nor can we be blamed for the destruction of the rainforests", says Kaisa Tarna, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager for Veracel. [Finnish lumber company]

      
Only half a century [...]

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BocaNews.com.
It wasn’t an everyday sight at Unity School: baby Red Slider turtles, a humpback whale rib bone, scaly lizards, and two marine and wildlife experts from Florida Flora & Fauna to relate stories about these and more critters during their 18th Annual Earth Day celebration.
The celebration at the Delray Beach school also included a [...]

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