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North Kivu rebellion threatens Congo's mountain gorilla tourist trade | Global developm... - 0 views

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  • The M23 rebellion has forced the park authorities to shut down what was a fast-growing tourism trade. In 2009 the park received 550 visitors; last year 3,000 tourists came to Virunga and that figure was projected to rise to 6,000 in 2012.
  • To De Merode's relief, the rebels and government forces this week agreed to allow a team of 45 rangers to search for and monitor the mountain gorillas. The Virunga park authorities said some of these gorillas have not been seen for over 10 weeks. There was further heavy fighting in the area this week, heightening fears for the gorillas' safety.
  • "There are around 210 mountain gorillas in the park, which is roughly a quarter of the world's population," he says.
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Faced with drought, Peru's highlanders revive ancient water harvesting - AlertNet - 0 views

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  • “Frosts are (now) more frequent and last longer. The sun burns harder,” says Arapa. “Before (washed) clothes took two days to dry, now just one day.”
  • Eddy Wilber Ramos, an agronomist and Gomel Apaza’s assistant, says tougher times mean “there are dozens of families who are migrating from these areas because they are no longer able to tolerate the climate conditions in which they must work.”
  • Some farmers also argue that the Green Revolution brought with it a competitive, individualist model for farming which weakened cooperation among farmers.
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Matthew Spiegl: Ocean Frontiers: A Film for Everyone Who Cares About the Sea - 1 views

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    Thanks for letting us know. It may be a good film for the CI Women's Network or any other CI group to watch.
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Greenland Ice Melt, Measured By NASA Satellites, Reaches Unprecedented Level - 0 views

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  • But the data from three independent satellites this July, analyzed by NASA and university scientists, showed that in less than a week, the amount of thawed ice sheet surface skyrocketed from 40 percent to 97 percent.
  • In over 30 years of observations, satellites have never measured this amount of melting, which reaches nearly all of Greenland's surface ice cover.
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