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Turtle Conservation in Solomon Islands

January 7, 2008 – 12:06 am

From The Nature Conservancy.
Neither British colonists nor Christian missionaries nor government entities could tamp down conflicts among tribes in this remote South Pacific island nation. But when turtles started disappearing, the local people finally started talking.
The Solomon Islands, a remote Pacific archipelago strung southeast of Papua New Guinea, are probably best known as the site [...]

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Largest Debt-for-Nature Swap for Costa Rica Forests

October 19, 2007 – 5:27 pm

From The Nature Conservancy.
The Nature Conservancy has brokered the largest debt-for-nature swap in history — a deal that will secure long-term, science-based conservation for Costa Rica’s tropical forests:

The United States will forgive $26 million in debt owed to it by Costa Rica.
This move will in turn provide necessary funds that will be used to finance [...]

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Hoops and Harmony: How PeacePlayers is Changing the Middle East

October 1, 2007 – 11:36 pm

From ESPN.com by Chad Ford.
In this old, dusty village, two cousins — Ghassan and Samer Alayan — wearing sweat-drenched PeacePlayers International shirts sit and talk about the history of Beit Safafa. They speak of resistance and cooperation, roots and exile, the joy and the despair of everyone, on both sides, who chooses to live in [...]

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Protecting the Guatemalan Beaded Lizard

September 19, 2007 – 9:41 pm

From The Nature Conservancy.
Is it more poisonous than a rattlesnake? Does it cause lightning strikes? And can it make a pregnant woman miscarry if she just looks at it?
These are just some of the many myths that surround the wildly misunderstood Heloderma horridum charlesbogerti — more commonly known as the Guatemalan beaded lizard. Actually, the [...]

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China’s First National Park - Pudacuo

August 19, 2007 – 11:17 pm

From The Nature Conservancy.
The Nature Conservancy has helped China achieve a conservation landmark: the establishment of that country’s first national park, which will also serve as a model for a new Chinese national park system.
The new park — Pudacuo National Park in China’s Northwest Yunnan Province — is located in one of the most biodiverse [...]

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Venezuela’s Four-Legged Mobile Libraries

August 5, 2007 – 2:23 pm

From BBC News.
A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. The book mules known as bibliomulas are helping to spread the benefits of reading to people who are isolated from much of the world around them.
Spreading the joy of reading is our main [...]

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