Word: rainforest
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...virtue by buying off or forgiving debt if developing countries gave protected status to some valuable wild area. Conservation International implemented the first debt-for-nature swap in Bolivia's Beni Biosphere Reserve in 1987. The U.S. Congress gave the strategy a boost in 1998 with the Tropical Rainforest Conservation Act, which authorized the President to reduce some countries' debt in exchange for forest protection. Governments or private groups have engineered swaps with more than 30 countries...
...shattering piece of news came over the press wire of the Rainforest Action Network in May: "One-quarter of mammals will soon be extinct." An Associated Press story made a similar claim: "A quarter of the world's mammal species--from tigers to rhinos--could face extinction within 30 years." Problem is, the story isn't true...
...named a living treasure by Australia's National Trust. DIED. JOSE LUTZENBERGER, 75, former secretary of the environment and leading voice of Brazil's Green movement; in Porto Alegre. His work put an end to the government's ?nuclear program and helped ?secure 93,240 sq km of Amazon rainforest as a sanctuary for the Yanomami Indians. In 1988 Lutzenberger was given the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel...
...also better for the environment because farmers are given a 15 cent premium for organic coffee in addition to the guaranteed price of $1.26 per pound. Nearly 80 percent of fair trade coffee is organically grown and, because the majority is grown on small farms, the clear-cutting of rainforest in order to build large plantations does not occur...
...smallest residents of Singapore, the bugs. Or perhaps I should say the former residents, because I didn’t see a bug the entire time that I was in Singapore—quite a feat for a country that sits on the equator in the middle of a rainforest...