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Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation
World  (tags: peru, amazon, rainforest, climate-change, global warming, protests, deaths, oil, oil-drilling, logging, deforestation, world, americas, violence, corruption, news, environment, ecosystems, government, forests, habitatdestruction, HumanRights )

SirRobert
- 164 days ago - nytimes.com
Faced with a simmering crisis over dozens of deaths in the quelling of indigenous protests last week, Peru's Congress this week has suspended the decrees that had set off the protests, which were focused upon saving the Amazon rainforests.
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Massive Mudslide in Tartagal,Argentina.
World  (tags: Americas, ClimateChange, environment, forests, news )

Monica
- 286 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A massive mudslide set off by heavy downpours has swept away a railway bridge and swamped houses in the Argentine town of Tartagal.
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Rescued Baby Gorilla Fuels Campaign to Save a Species
World  (tags: animals, endangered, environment, forests, GoodNews, habitatdestruction, politics, nature, wildlife, world, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animaladvocates, animalrights, conservation, endangered, extinction, GoodNews, killed, killing, protection, slaughter )

Susan
- 422 days ago - africa.reuters.com
Miza, feared dead as her mother was among the gorillas killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, home to 380 of the world's 720 mountain gorillas.Miza was rescued by her father, silverback gorilla Kabirizi, and brought back ...
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Six-Day Fires in Greece Sets Forest Damage Record, Ravages Wildlife - International Herald Tribune
World  (tags: Greece, wildlife, forests, habitatdestruction, death )

Jonathan
- 816 days ago - iht.com
In six hot, windy days of uncontrolled blazes, Greece lost more of its rapidly dwindling forestland than in any single year on record.Outside the forests, in low-lying land and plateaus, entire ecosystems -- birds, reptiles and small mammals -- in burnt fie
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Greek Firefighters Fail to Contain Sweeping Wildfires
World  (tags: forests, deaths )


- 818 days ago - voanews.com
The fires have claimed at least 63 lives and destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and numerous villages.
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Helicopter Rescues Villagers Trapped By Flames in Greece
World  (tags: destruction, trees, world, forests, endangered, politics, humans, government, habitatdestruction )

Maria
- 819 days ago - tree-nation.com
The fires have killed 63 people over four days, destroying everything in their path. One broke out on the fringe of Athens Monday, but was quickly brought under control.
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Ecuador Seeks Aid Not to Exploit Amazon Oil
World  (tags: conservation, environment, globalwarming, forests, pollution, world )

Maria
- 914 days ago - truthout.org
Ecuadorian officials told an international meeting this week that their government would ban exploitation of huge oil reserves if it was compensated for its effort to save the natural habitat of the Amazon region.
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