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2006 IUCN Red List Reveals Continuing Declines (WDC)
Date: May 2, 2006 The 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species brings into focus the ongoing decline of the earth's biodiversity. Widely recognized as the most authoritative assessment of the global status of plants and animals, the Red List provides an accurate ...
Africa's Oldest National Park In Crisis (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Source: National Public Radio  by Jon Hamilton Weekend Edition Saturday, July 5, 2008 One of the world's great wildlife sanctuaries is literally going up in smoke. The hardwood forests of Virunga National Park in Central Africa are being cut ...
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Banking on Conservation - IUCN and EIB Sign Framework for Cooperation on Biodiversity (WDC)
Date: September 19, 2006 The World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed an historical cooperation agreement. Web site http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/09/20eib.htm
Congo, As Go the Hippos ... (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/congoecology ON THE BLUEGRAY waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a pirogue and shakes his head. "Nothing," he says, glancing into the empty ...
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Congo, Rwanda and Uganda united to save mountain gorillas (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
http://www.eccplatform.org/index.php?option=comcontent&task=view&id=1312&It emid=161 Source: WWF 22 Feb 2008 Borders will matter less to central Africa's mountain gorillas, following the launch of a strategic conservation plan and an associated project which ...
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Congo, Rwanda and Uganda united to save mountain gorillas (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: WWF Published February 22, 2008 09:41 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/31616 Borders will matter less to central Africa's mountain gorillas, following the launch of a strategic conservation plan and an associated project which covers ...
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Conservation areas 'attracting human settlement' (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: Science and Development Network Published July 11, 2008 08:50 AM by Catarina Chagas Protected conservation areas, previously thought to negatively impact marginalised rural communities, actually attract human settlement a situation that could risk ...
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Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Defines Indicators to Meet 2010 Target (WDC)
Date: March 2006 (CoP VII) The CBD Conference of the Parties agreed on a limited number of trial indicators, to assess progress at the global level towards the 2010 target, and to effectively communicate trends in biodiversity related to the three objectives of the Convention (paragraphs 3 ...
DR Congo Announces World's Largest Protected Wetland (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
Environment News Service 24 jul. 08 09.13h KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 24, 2008 (ENS) The NgiriTumbaMaindombe area in the Democratic Republic of Congo has become the world's largest Wetland of International Importance, officially recognized by the Ramsar ...
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EU warns Croatia again on fisheries zone (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative)
From: Reuters Published February 18, 2008 05:50 AM http://www.enn.com/topstories/article/31272  BRUSSELS (Reuters) The European Union stepped up pressure on Croatia on Monday not to apply a protected fisheries zone to its EU neighbors ...
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