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NCSR Home Page - 0 views

www.ncsr.org
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  • B Barker on 07 Jul 09
     
    NCSR is a national clearinghouse for natural resource curriculum materials used by college faculty and high school science teachers. Materials cover major subject areas of environmental science and natural resources. They include fisheries, forestry, wildlife, and environmental science topics used in college programs.
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www.dec.ny.gov/...55423.html. biodiversity
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  • Mark Johnson on 07 Jul 09
     
    watch the worlds biodiversity
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Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being | World Resourc... - 1 views

www.wri.org/...natures-benefits-in-kenya Kenya biodiversity maps GIS ecosystem services
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  • Nancy Trautmann on 30 Jun 09
     
    This report provides a new approach to examining the links between ecosystem services (the benefits derived from nature) and the poor. Through a series of maps and analyses, the authors focus on the environmental resources most Kenyans rely on such as soil, water, forest, rangeland, livestock, and wildlife. The atlas overlays georeferenced statistical information on population and household expenditures with spatial data on ecosystems and their services (water availability, wood supply, wildlife populations, and the like) to yield a picture of how land, people, and prosperity are related in Kenya.
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Amazon Conservation Team: About the Amazon Conservation Team - 0 views

www.ethnobotany.org/about.html Amazon Rainforest Conservation Biodiversity Videos
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  • Nancy Trautmann on 23 Jun 09
     
    The mission of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is to work in partnership with indigenous people in conserving biodiversity, health, and culture in tropical America.
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A Scientist Working to Improve Lives Through Conservation: Conservation International - 0 views

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  • Rosimeiry Portela: A Scientist Working to Improve Lives Through Conservation 
  • Portela is always looking to social components for models of conservation, noting the differences in Brazilian and Finnish conservation efforts. Brazilians, for example, are increasingly aware of environmental issues, but development concerns are still at the forefront of their political agenda, and inequality remains one of the worst in the world. “There is very little inequality in Finland and a high level of agreement among politicians for conservation,” says Portela.
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Brazil Announces Plan To Create World's Largest Tropical Forest Reserve - Environmental... - 0 views

www.edf.org/pressrelease.cfm Amazon Conservation Stakeholders Agriculture
shared by Courtney Wilson on 19 Jun 09 - Cached
  • The announcement today of the creation of the Terra do Meio (Land in the Middle) reserve, which will cover about 9.8 million acres, in the National Park and Ecological Station, will be compleme
  • The announcement today of the creation of the Terra do Meio (Land in the Middle) reserve, which will cover about 9.8 million acres, in the National Park and Ecological Station, will be complemented next week by the protection of an additional 7.4 million acres of sustainable development reserves, largely for traditional forest communities.  The protection plan signals the government's intention to exert control over one of the most lawless and violent regions in the Amazon frontier.
  • Creating the proposed mosaic of reserves in the Terra do Meio will do more than just protect an area about the size of Maine, which is currently suffering heavy invasion from land grabbers.  The reserves will also link two existing groups of indigenous territories, resulting in the creation of the largest continuous corridor - nearly 62 million acres, about the size of the United Kingdom - of protected tropical forest in the world.
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  • The proposal for creation of the reserve mosaic was originally formulated by the grassroots Movement for the Development of the Transamazon and the Xingu (MTDX), a coalition of small farmers along the Transamazon highway. 
  • The farmers also fear that more deforestation, as soy farming and cattle ranching expand, will reduce rainfall and cut crop yields
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