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Eco-Restoration Along U.S. Gulf Coast?

By postMigrator August 12, 2008 August 12, 2008 RT Newswire

Along Gulf Coast, Talk Of Restoring Wetlands
by Andrea Hsu

Andrea Hsu/NPR

Researchers want the Gulf Coast’s wetlands to look more like Louisiana’s Lafitte Cypress Swamp (pictured). It is thought the wetlands will serve as a speed bump

against major storms.

All Things Considered, August 5, 2008 · Researchers working along the Gulf Coast are proposing the restoration of the region’s wetlands, which act as a natural speed

bump for storms. The plan is part of discussions of how best to protect against another hurricane.

Students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are studying a 430-acre triangle within New Orleans’ Bayou Bienvenue. Their work is part of a proposal aimed at

restoring a cypress swamp.

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African Parks Withdraws From Ethiopian Indigenous Lands

By postMigrator August 12, 2008 August 12, 2008 Uncategorized

Landloss threat ends as African Parks withdraws from Ethiopia

African Parks Foundation (now known as African Parks Network) of the
Netherlands has announced it will withdraw from its lease of the Omo and Nech
Sar National Parks, Ethiopia, by October, 2008. Seven tribes live in or use the
land that comprises Omo Park, and an estimated 40,000 people use park
resources. In a statement released by African Parks in December, 2007, they
cited the actions of human rights organizations and possible “legal challenges
from one party or other” in their reasons for withdrawing from the Omo Park.
Native Solutions to Conservation Refugees has advocated for the rights of the
local communities in and around the Omo Park since January, 2006.

To read the full article, go to:
http://globaljusticeecology.org/connections.php?ID=154

Native Solutions is a project of GJEP. To view their website, go to:
http://www.conservationrefugees.org/

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Study: Logging Exacerbates Global Heating

By postMigrator August 12, 2008 August 12, 2008 RT Newswire

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” … the potential amount of avoided emissions is much larger,
and therefore there’s much more to be gained from protecting
them from logging. It means the risks of logging are bigger
than we thought.”
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Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
August 5, 2008

Logging bigger risk than realised: study
Ben Cubby, Environment Reporter
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/08/04/1217701950056.html

WILD eucalypt forests across south-eastern Australia store far more
carbon than previously thought, according to research that has
far-ranging implications for climate change policy.

Climate Change and the Canada Lynx

By postMigrator August 12, 2008 August 12, 2008 Uncategorized

I’m seeing nothing especially new here, but, with that said, some
important concerns do get further confirmation, and some important
new details offered.

For example, a shift of biomes (e.g., forest shift to grassland) has
been a growing concern in recent years, and not one expressed only
within narrow scientific circles. When 60 Minutes interviewed Thomas
Sweatnam a year or more ago, he stated the risk that forests could be
replaced by a new and different biome.

The challenge for snow dependent species such as lynx has also been
noted before. But it’s been scientifically important to put those
issues to the test, and have them confirmed — or not. And the
challenge for the Propertius duskywing butterfly if climate change
happens too fast for survival of oak trees is a new detail in the
realm of broken synchrony between one species and another.
Lance
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“Lynx is one species that is vulnerable, but the potential impacts of
climate change on entire ecosystems are even more alarming.”
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