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Tag: forest conservation

  • The unkindest cut

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    The Economist: The unkindest cut Cameroon wants to sell a forest, but conservationists don't want to buy it. FOR rent: 830,000 hectares of pristine tropical rainforest. Rich in wildlife, including forest elephants and gorillas. Provides a regionally important African green corridor. Price: $1.6m a year. Conservationist tenant preferred, but extractive forestry also considered. Please apply…

  • Amazon Farmers Grow Grain and Save the Forest

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    Christian Science Monitor: Amazon Farmers Grow Grain and Save the Forest McDonald's, Cargill, and The Nature Conservancy create a 'responsible' soy program. Santarem, Brazil – You might call it the greening of Chicken McNuggets. At first glance, there seems little common ground between fast-food giant McDonald's, US commodities multinational Cargill, and The Nature Conservancy, an…