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<title><![CDATA[In the end, mixed feelings and full encouragement]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1240</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Human as it is, the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona left mixed emotions among participants on the decisions that will shape their work in the crucial next four years.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mission: Make a BIG difference]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1232</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Interview with IUCN President-elect, Ashok Khosla]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Thorny decisions left for the end]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1235</link>
<author><![CDATA[By Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Most likely, it was not intentional. But the IUCN general assembly voted the most controversial resolution proposals at the very end of its 10-day-long and tiring congress, when numerous members were either exhausted or plainly absent.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Members to Khosla: Let's hit the grassroots]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1234</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Now that they have voted, they want their cut. Members want newly-elected IUCN president Ashok Khosla to better involve grassroots organisations.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Money matters]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1231</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[If money talks, IUCN may lack a loud voice, but will still have a sufficiently strong for the time being.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Finally, geology is taken into account]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1237</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Until very recently, the conservation of geo-diversity was not included among the pressing priorities of environmental policy, not even among grass-roots activists. An incomprehensible neglect, given that geology studies human kind's genealogy and climate evolution recorded in the rocks.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MYANMAR - 'Mangrove Loss Exacerbated Cyclone Devastation']]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1236</link>
<author><![CDATA[Marwaan Macan-Markar/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[When researchers surveyed the battered coastlines of Asian countries after the December 2004 tsunami, they stumbled upon an arresting fact -- that mangroves can save lives.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ashok Khosla: To pastures new]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1217</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Imagine newly-elected IUCN president Ashok Khosla joining the World Bank chief and the European Commission president at the G8 summit.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Faith factor]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1216</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Is perhaps humankind paying for its sins against Mother Earth? Some NGOs and faith-based groups seem to think so and are invoking religion and spirituality as a weapon to fight climate change and environmental degradation, to the concern of both scientists and pragmatists.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Shelling off]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1204</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The old Latin adage pecunia non olet (money does not smell) has been used throughout the ages to justify all sorts of financial dealings. But, as the IUCN is experiencing right now, if you are committed to protecting the environment, you have to carefully watch where the money comes from.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Election: Long with suspense...]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1205</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[If IUCN is unique, and in many ways it is, so is the process of electing its president.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fertilising the ocean: A bad idea and illegal too]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1218</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The craziest proposals to reverse climate change include so-called “geo-engineering" projects.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Weather forecast Magungu knows better]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1224</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kathryn Strachan/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living around Lake Victoria know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US military base may wipe out unique mammal]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1221</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The construction of a U.S. defence base in Japan could mean the death sentence for a threatened water species - dugong, of which just 50 remain.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A - 'Oil Prices Have Revived Interest in Dams' - Jeremy Bird]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1223</link>
<author><![CDATA[Marwaan Macan-Markar/IPS]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[ARGENTINA - Women Create Food and Jobs in Wetlands]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1222</link>
<author><![CDATA[Marcela Valente/Tierramérica]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Wearing a cap and a white apron, Melina Lucero cuts the heads and tails off fish caught in the Paraná River, before skilfully filleting them.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporates become bugbear for IUCN]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1219</link>
<author><![CDATA[By Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The way the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been managing its partnership with the private sector, especially with major corporations in the extractive industries, has provoked some strong-worded vindications against the group's director general and its governing body, the council.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Members shout reforms at IUCN]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1206</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The IUCN members are ready with a long list for the new president.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No more impunity for war crimes]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1207</link>
<author><![CDATA[TerraViva]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Arab Group seeks a resolution on liability and compensation for environmental war crimes.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A New IUCN? Candidates speak out]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1211</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[IUCN's three presidential hopefuls answer questions from TerraViva.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate crises likely to spur mass migrations]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1210</link>
<author><![CDATA[Thalif Deen/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[As climate change, sea-level rise, earthquakes and floods threaten countries such as Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Vietnam and Tajikistan, the Tokyo-based U.N. University (UNU) warns that by 2050, some 200 million people will be displaced by environmental problems.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BOLIVIA - Water, energy everywhere - but not for locals]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1208</link>
<author><![CDATA[Franz Chávez/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Peasant farmers in 42 villages along the Zongo valley in western Bolivia stand by and watch as the flourishing electricity industry harnesses the swift-flowing river while, paradoxically, their own farms are languishing from lack of water and energy.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[IUCN elections: First salvoes fired]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1192</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The battle royale has been triggered. The three presidential candidates have fired their first salvoes - one of them loud enough not to be overheard.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress: From glitz to ballots]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1193</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[With the eventful hit-show, the Forum over, the IUCN World Conservation Congress comes down to inevitable politics.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Going the way of the dodo]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1197</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stanislaus Jude Chan]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[With nearly 1,226 species of birds facing extinction humans face potentially catastrophic impacts.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New media to help meet environment targets faster?]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1195</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Blogging, facebook, YouTube or mobile phones, they have all revolutionised the way we communicate.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Buy the Amazon to preserve it]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1199</link>
<author><![CDATA[By Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA["Rainforest Delight" is too tempting a brandname to be truthful.It sounds just another half-lie of the advertising machinery which litters so much of the world. But it is not. In this case, the brand name is an accurate description of the product.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[World Bank releases draft standards for biofuels]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1200</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zarina Geloo]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to reign in the rush towards producing biofuels which is emerging as the latest threat to the ecosystem, even blamed for causing environmental damage, especially in third world countries, and believed responsible for pushing up the prices of food globally, the World Bank and the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RBS) have released a list of draft standards on the sustainable production of biofuel production at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Barcelona.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A swampy future for mangroves]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1201</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stanislaus Jude Chan]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Even as the images of the Indian Ocean tsunami four years ago remain locked vividly in memories, conservationists say the impact of such a disaster can be cushioned considerably through the conservation of coastal ecosystems, including preserving mangroves.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Corporates and NGOs, partners in arms?]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1198</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[If the civil society is from Venus and the corporate sector from Mars, can branding bridge their divide?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Beyond carbon footprints]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1185</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Do those 8,000 tonne of carbon footprints staring at the IUCN’s Wold Conservation Congress participants in the face show the way beyond Kyoto?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate Change: Disaster of Disasters…]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1186</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The disaster is that the world is largely unprepared for disasters – or their aftermaths.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Quit whining: Africans advise their governments]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1188</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zarina Geloo]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Africans expressed anger at their governments’ lackadaisical attitude towards climate change and massive poverty.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For rural poor, things are worse - World Resources Report]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1187</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[For the poorest people of the world, climate change and the catastrophes associated with it constitute an additional menace.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[I need your Money…]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1170</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Since climate change is now a demonstrated fact, rather than a make-believe worst- selling fiction of a few years back, money is needed to forestall it and cure its ills.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Save a hippopotamus, and get development]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1171</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Back in 1998, the 17 farmer and hunting communities of Wechiau, living along the Black Volta River in Ghana had neither schools nor drinking water or electricity.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Two to tango - financial crisis and climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1173</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Enter the global financial crisis. Exit climate change? That lingering apprehension is not shared by Pamela Cox.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cars: Two sides of the same coin]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1172</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stanislaus Jude Chan]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The contrast between the REVA car and the Toyota Eco-Driving display at the IUCN World Conservation Congress cannot be more striking.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Philips: Cleaning light & Image]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1184</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stanislaus Jude Chan]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Innovative lighting solutions could potentially save up to 40 per cent of energy, sparing some 106 billion euros in energy costs annually, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 555 million tonnes, and cutting back on 1.5 billion barrels of oil, says Royal Philips Electronics a Dutch concern that, incidentally, sells them.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sacred sites yearn for divine intervention]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1181</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[One of the oldest protected natural sites, sacred sites that have religious significance, are threatened by conflicts, privatisation, mining and tourism even within officially-recognised natural parks. A book, Sacred Natural Sites, was released at the IUCN World Conservation Congress that provides basic guidelines to area managers.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Erratic climate patterns spreading diseases]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1183</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stanislaus Jude Chan]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Climate change is wreaking havoc on wildlife, and causing a "potentially explosive situation" for both humans and animals in terms of health, according to wildlife conservation experts at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has identified 12 deadly pathogens - avian influenza, babesia and cholera - that could spread into new regions as a result of climate change, and potentially cause irreparable damage to human and wildlife health, as well as global economies.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tight rope walk for small islands]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1182</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The 75,000 inhabitants of San Andres Island in Colombia do not want to choose between development and conservation - with good education these could go hand in hand. "We see man as part of the environment, we don't want to remove man from his territory, we want to introduce him there," Opal Bent Zapata, sub director for environmental management at the island told IPS TerraViva.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Do it our way: Mining company to environmentalists]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1176</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zarina Geloo]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[t was a group of unlikely bedfellows that met at IUCN’s World Conservation Congress’ meeting  on indigenous people and the extractive industry.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Indigenous people: We too matter]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1177</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stanislaus Jude Chan]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Indigenous peoples from across the world found the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress the right forum to discuss their traditional practices of adaptation to climate change.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservation, development and tourism threaten indigenous people]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1175</link>
<author><![CDATA[Rahul Kumar]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[“Ever since national parks and protected areas were introduced, people’s rights have been violated".]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barbie dolls talk science to people]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1174</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zarina Geloo]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Taking the jargon out of science and letting it fly - literally from the trees is what Dr Nalini Nadkarni did when she created the Tree Top Barbie doll]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Global crisis a "window of opportunity"]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1156</link>
<author><![CDATA[Julio Godoy]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The global meltdown affecting the financial and banking system in most of the industrialized world, and the rediscovery of the state's power as saviour of last resort, are opening a window of opportunity for a new economic paradigm, that ends the short-sighted seek for high returns, typical of neoliberalism.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Guess what: mammals are in crisis]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1161</link>
<author><![CDATA[Alejandro Kirk]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[One in four mammals of planet Earth are at risk of disappearing forever, says the newest issue of "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Conservation must be everybody’s business]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1157</link>
<author><![CDATA[TerraViva Team]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Three streams feed Forum debates: Climate for Change, Healthy Environments and Healthy People]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[When Water is Bitter]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1155</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ramesh Jaura]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Palestinian villagers slurp unsafe agricultural water rather than trusting water provided by an Israeli company.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress Big and Different]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1154</link>
<author><![CDATA[Hilmi Toros]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The IUCN World Conservation Congress, considered a premier summit on the environment this year is big. And it's different.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Troubled waters ahead: French scientist]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1160</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zoltán Dujisin]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Politically committed French maritime biologist Daniel Pauly received the 4th Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the IUCN World Conservation Congress with an emotional but a scathing indictment over the ruthless exploitation of the seas.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Advertising: The threat of excess]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1158</link>
<author><![CDATA[Alejandro Kirk]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Many questioned the role of advertising agencies in creating a generation of consumers rather than responsible citizens at a debate on Monday at the IUCN’s World Conservation Congress. Some even questioned unsustainable products that advertisers sell.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Developing countries take the lead on protected areas]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1159</link>
<author><![CDATA[Rahul Kumar]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[A World Database on Protected Areas was launched by the UNEP and the IUCN that allows users to view comprehensive information on national parks and protected areas using Google Earth and to download data and compare it with other species and environmental data.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[C4C: Climate For Change needed for climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1148</link>
<author><![CDATA[IUCN]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The world is changing more quickly than at any time in human history. Whether in the oceans, on land, or in the world’s climate, the impact of human activities on planet Earth is strikingly evident. The New Climate for Change stream at Congress will consider challenges and solutions.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Planned binational dam under fire]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1128</link>
<author><![CDATA[Marcela Valente - Tierramérica/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Feeling the pressure of rising energy demand, the governments of <b>Argentina and Brazil</b> are taking a fresh look at old plans for the Garabí hydroelectric dam on the Uruguay River.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nairobi living costs the Earth]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1135</link>
<author><![CDATA[Najum Mushtaq/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[At its source in the hills of the Thogoto Forest, the Mbaghati river adds a gushing noise to the quiet landscape. Downstream it turns into a muddy brown sewage.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnam: Paying for Ecosystems]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1130</link>
<author><![CDATA[Helen Clark/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[HANOI - Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), an environmental scheme now being trialled in this South-east Asian country, may serve as a model for the region, if found successful.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Letter from the publisher]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1149</link>
<author><![CDATA[Mario Lubetkin]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Sri Lanka: ‘Animal tracks’ lead villagers out of poverty]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1129</link>
<author><![CDATA[Feizal Samath/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[KOULARA - An impoverished village in southern Sri Lanka is slowly pulling out of poverty by churning out terra cotta moulds of animal footprints for tea connoisseurs all over the world.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Organic farming - the way forward]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1131</link>
<author><![CDATA[Prime Sarmiento/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[NUEVA ECIJA, Philippines - Sustainable agriculture was far from farmer Peter Desisto’s mind when he went to an organic farming seminar ten years ago.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[World cities commit to defend biodiversity]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1132</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kristin Palitza/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[DURBAN - Representatives from 21 cities around the world signed in September a declaration to protect and re-develop urban biodiversity in their towns. Each city committed to identifying five vital initiatives and put those plans into practice within 18 months.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Good intentions eclipse new funding]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1133</link>
<author><![CDATA[Stephen Leahy/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BONN - The world community took some ever-so-careful steps towards slowing the biodiversity crisis at a major U.N. meeting in Bonn in May this year, while emphasising the need for urgency and action.??]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Big donors shifting green agenda]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/IUCN2008/currentNew.aspx?new=1134</link>
<author><![CDATA[Sam Cassanos/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[BERLIN, USA - "Philanthro-capitalists" and more traditional foundations are addressing global problems like climate change with unprecedented zeal. But are their money and efforts being put to the best use?]]></description>
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