Guest guest Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 457 - Latin American Tree News Today for you 29 new articles about earth's trees! (457th edition) Every Tree news article now accompanied with photos / maps / documents via: http://forestpolicyresearch.org Links to each article below texted to your cell phone / browser every hour on the hour: http://twitter.com/forestpolicy If you prefer the old format send a blank email to forestpolicyresearch- and select digest format ------------------------------- 1) Jamaica: Many reasons why the hills have lost there trees http://bit.ly/BC0V 2) Jamaica: Deforestation in the Cookpit Country http://bit.ly/2sHs 3) Puerto Rico: Urban forest cutting permits just got way too easy to get! http://bit.ly/49gu 4) Mexico: Chicle Gum from tree sap keeps cultural tradition alive http://bit.ly/44Zgfo 5) Costa Rica: Kèköldi is a 5000 hectare reserve http://bit.ly/x4PO 6) Panama: Gamboa Rainforest http://bit.ly/qiAw 7) Panama: Green's growing is now all of sudden about Molybdenum http://bit.ly/16a43 8) El Salvador: has Acid Rain? http://bit.ly/Nzba 9) Nicaragua: Praise for giving Awas Tingni community title to its traditional lands http://bit.ly/flsK 10) Nicaragua: Indigenous rainforest community wins title to ancestral lands http://bit.ly/a6jz 11) Colombia: Save the rainforest by making Cocaine legal: http://bit.ly/Hkfc 12) Columbia: Afro-Columbians evicted for Oil Palm http://bit.ly/1Oje 13) Colombia: 200 acres preserved for rare amphibians http://bit.ly/O4jl 14) Bolivia: Morales has to live up to his message and protect the people's forest http://bit.ly/Xa3B 15) Peru: The rainforest is like falling in love & I can't leave! http://bit.ly/7Mel 16) Peru: Ultimatum for Talisman to abandon their oil explorations http://bit.ly/KcDP 17) Peru: Seeking $200 million in international contributions over the next ten years http://bit.ly/164P3 18) Peru: Drug traffickers have destroyed nearly 2 million hectares http://bit.ly/Z2eU 19) Paraguay: Agribusiness protests landless farmers http://bit.ly/oJBy 20) Paraguay: Last Isolated peoples threatened by biofuels http://bit.ly/xAeH 21) Argentina: Summer Wildfires reach new found intensity in Tierra Del Fuego http://bit.ly/Pp04 22) Argentina: Supreme Court orders retroactive halt to deforestation in Salta Province! http://bit.ly/JoD7 23) Brazil: Mendez assasinated 20 years ago today, his predecessors threatened even more! http://bit.ly/11ny9 24) Brazil: Chico Mendez & a thousand similar killings have occurred since 1988 http://bit.ly/x0t1 25) Brazil: In memory of Chico Mendes, his memorials and his murder http://bit.ly/hDfB 26) Brazil: new system for mapping destruction reporting surge in partial cuts http://bit.ly/161n1 27) Brazil: In the past 3 years Atlantic rainforest deforestation is 9 times the 2000-2005 rates http://bit.ly/FU8L 28) Brazil: Dorothy Stang murder suspect in custody again http://bit.ly/20Bf 29) Brazil: MAP is a forest that was once known as the " end of the world " http://bit.ly/V0NE -- Posted to http://forestpolicyresearch.org via gmail to posterous and also to forestpolicyresearch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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