Conservation
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Climate talks in Lima can save the Amazon rainforest by recognising rights of its best protectors, writes Dan Collyns
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Conservationist Richard Bonham’s 40-year campaign to protect Africa’s wildlife has led him from Kenya’s savannah to trinket shops in Hong Kong. To stop the slaughter, he says, action must be taken at both ends of the supply chain
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Guardian Environment Network Scientists plan to go in search of the world’s rarest chameleon
Jeremy Hance for mongabay.com, part of the Guardian Environment NetworkMongabay: Chapman’s pygmy chameleon hasn’t been seen for 16 years. Now scientists want to go on an expedition to its native country of Malawi, to find out if it still exists -
Janaki Lenin: Scared residents of Talawade in Karnataka are calling for forest officials to recapture a tiger, suspected of killing a woman and chasing vehicles, that has been released into a wildlife reserve near their village
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Three people hospitalised after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve
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Vietnamese are protesting plans to build a cable car through remote Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park that could carry 1,000 visitors an hour to Son Doong cave
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Eradication effort to protect the island’s wildlife from millions of invasive rats, which will feed on the brains of live seabird chicks, starts in 2015
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Side effects of illegal mining in the Amazon caused a resurgence of malaria. Creating job opportunities could be a solution, writes Camila Nobrega
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Numbers of Gilbert’s potoroo – the world’s rarest marsupial – triple in the 20 years since species was rediscovered in Western Australia
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Archaeologists and conservation groups divided in reaction to proposals to put A303 under world heritage site
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COP20 is a forum for regional green policies not just global climate targets
Julian Hunt in London and Joy Pereira in Kuala LumpurWith Latin America already hit by climate change, talks in Lima are the perfect chance to discuss local green programmes, write Julian Hunt and Joy Pereira
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Corrective surgery in New Zealand on the tip of the little kiwi’s bill means it will be able to lead a normal life
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Scientists say new channel will herald arrival of more invasive species, with potentially harmful impact on region as a whole
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Hugh Warwick: In the longer term contraceptives, vaccination and predators could control the grey squirrel, but until then we have no alternative
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Women's rights and gender equality in focus Women on climate change frontline make big impact on small grants
Teresa OdendahlTeresa Odendahl: From Guatemala to Indonesia, bold action by women in communities threatened by extreme weather shows there is an alternative to costly international schemes -
The best of this week’s images from the natural world include one artistic dodo, two cheeky monkeys and whole family of elephants
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Urgent action required to save white-throated snapping turtle amid fears that loss of eggs and hatchlings is crippling the population, says Queensland researcher
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Zoo relies on public donations after retailer, whose Christmas ad is about boy seeking friend for his lonely penguin, disappoints
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Indonesia’s new president announces plans to protect rainforest and peatlands, signalling a new direction for country with worst rate of deforestation in the world
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Olivier Nsengimana tells the tale of the grey crowned-crane, a beautiful African bird whose future is in peril
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The 2005 flood that devastated Mumbai could just be the beginning - as more rain, more construction and more rubbish make the city even more vulnerable. So why won’t anyone act?
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Levels fell to second-lowest level in quarter century, Brazil’s environment minister said, in wake of adoption of controversial bill revising the Forest Code
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Tokyo’s chief negotiator at the International Whaling Commission attacks ‘eco-imperialist’ countries who want a ‘stupid’ ban on hunting
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France has two months to justify ‘environmental deterioration’ involved in the Sivens dam project
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Palm oil is in half of the products we buy but the impacts of unsustainable production can be devastating. Here’s what we learned from our expert panel on ways to build a sustainable palm oil industry
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Guardian Environment Network Imports of illegal timber fall in five major countries, says report
Mongabay, part of the Guardian Environment NetworkMongabay: Five key timber importers, including UK, France and US, have made progress in cutting down on contraband timber
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Record haul of over 1,000 endangered sea turtles, all dead, were bound for illegal export to China
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Biggest ever survey in 16 countries finds adverts for live tigers, orangutans and chimps – plus a ‘toilet-trained’ gorilla
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CSIRO says megashocks including terrorist attacks and pandemics could hit Australia in the next few decades
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Australian-founded database CrocBITE, with records of 2,700 worldwide crocodile attacks, an attempt to understand ‘human-crocodile conflict’
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Environmentalists welcome move to spur mackerel recovery, but Shetlands fishermen unhappy at share allocations
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Conservationists thrilled after threatened marsupial seen in Kimberley region for the first time in a decade
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Kevin McKenna: Scottish National Heritage would like us to believe it is winning the battle to save the species – it is doing nothing of the sort
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GrrlScientist: Natural history museums are many things, but they are not peopled exclusively with dry, dusty old white men, rooting around in dry, dusty old drawers, examining dry, dusty old dead things.
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