465 – Latin American Tree News
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Today for you 28 new articles about earth’s trees! (465th edition)
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Index & Articles:
1) Bahamas: Save the Mangroves by Stopping Bimini Bay Resort!
2) Haiti / Dominican Republic: EDGE of Existence programme
3) Mexico: Stop the extinction of the Thick-billed Parrot
4) Guatemala: Trees save lives like rebar in concrete, without rebar mountains unravel
5) Guatemala: The story of Eco-Rio and how it saved Rio Dulce National Park
6) Trinidad: Summit of Americas preparation means cutting every tree at the airport
7) Panama: Forcing trees & forests to conform to unnatural, unhealthy economic schemes
8) Venezuela: Avila National park set on fire by students protesting Chavez
9) Ecuador: Got ecosystem protection in your constitution? http://bit.ly/1Tw6oP
10) Ecuador: Defenders of the Rainforest http://bit.ly/8TTD
11) Ecuador: Sting at Sundance to promote film about Ecuadorian plight against Chevron http://bit.ly/42nlcq
12) Guyana: Conservation international puts another $8 million into carbon credits http://bit.ly/kZC8
13) Guyana: Gov loses a million hectares of forest to loggers & then starts greenwashing
14) Guyana: When it comes to green washing WWF is finally setting some limits http://bit.ly/nTrv
15) Guyana: Gov pushing a brand new and very modern forest sustainability bill http://bit.ly/q31D
16) Guyana: Gov gives full support to its largest most corrupt logging corporation http://bit.ly/c9wP
17) Guyana: An emphasis on community forestry in 2009 http://bit.ly/E0Vi
18) Brazil: Greenpeace’s community based mapping project http://bit.ly/wcyY7
19) Brazil: First ever sustainable forestry concession promised in Para?
20) Brazil: New Greenpeace campaign sails into Brazil today http://bit.ly/LpT3
21) Brazil: Everyone agrees rainforests are worth more alive than dead, but… http://bit.ly/dHZH
22) Brazil: ADM’s exploitation of land & workers gets new coat of green paint http://bit.ly/tGEo
23) Brazil: Monocrops for biofools is a much, much greater risk than fossil fuels
24) Brazil: Beefeaters are like a chainsaws’ manifest destiny http://bit.ly/DNab
25) Brazil: Military takeover of tribal lands or legitimate forest protection? http://bit.ly/lMP8
26) Brazil: Plan to build giant wall around ghetto to protect rainforest? http://bit.ly/Sif1
27) Brazil: More on mainstream enviros sorta getting in the way of the devouring of the Amazon http://bit.ly/G7oxu
28) Brazil: Extreme corruption & lawlessness is the primary regulator of rainforest destruction http://bit.ly/10g8n