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Labour in RSSThe loss of biodiversity is widespread, and it is worrying; there are all sorts of alarming numbers about. These numbers roll off our attention span, amidst all the doomsday statistics. And there is a perception that biodiversity is all about the disappearance of exotic insects in some distant land. But these forms of life must be saved, for their own sake, and because humans are a part of biodiversity. Dangers to one form of life are a threat to another. IPS taps into its own diverse network of correspondents around the world to report these ever new dangers to forms of life - and the struggle to protect them.



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PUERTO RICO
Cleaner Energy Sources Prove Divisive
By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero*
SAN JUAN - As Puerto Rico seeks to lower soaring utility rates while simultaneously shifting toward cleaner energy sources, it faces grassroots opposition to two major projects even though at least one is 100-percent renewable.
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CHILE
Recovery from Forest Fire Could Take 80 Years
By Pamela Sepúlveda
SANTIAGO - "It's extremely serious, a full-blown environmental catastrophe," environmentalist Sara Larrain told IPS, describing the impact of the fire that has been raging through the Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia since Dec. 27.
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KENYA
Key Lakes Succumb to Human Activities
By Peter Kahare
RIFT VALLEY, Kenya - Several years ago, Lakes Kamnarok and Ol Bollosat in Kenya were vibrant water bodies that supported and shaped the ecosystems around them. But today they are shells of their former selves, due to heavy siltation caused by human activities.
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INDIA
Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 2
By Malini Shankar
BANGALORE - As the amount of protected forest dwindles rapidly in India, indigenous groups and wildlife find themselves living cheek to jowl in an increasingly contested space.
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INDIA
Indigenous Rights Versus Wildlife Rights? – Part 1
By Malini Shankar*
BANGALORE - Tucked away in a dense and ecologically diverse tiger reserve in Southern India, tribes-people and wildlife defenders are locked in a battle of indigenous peoples’ rights versus wildlife rights.
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Rio+20: The Moment When Everything Changed?
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - Humanity is driving Earth's climate and ecosystems towards dangerous tipping points, requiring radical new forms of international cooperation and governance, experts say.
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SOUTH AMERICA
Responsible Tourism at the "End of the World"
By Marcela Valente *
USHUAIA, Argentina - An innovative responsible tourism initiative in the Beagle Channel - a narrow strait linking the Atlantic and Pacific near the southernmost tip of South America - ensures the compatibility of the observation and conservation of unique bird and mammal species.
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JAMAICA
Hazard Mitigation Funds to Rescue Tourist Mecca
By Zadie Neufville
KINGSTON - In the latest efforts to mitigate the hazards associated with climate change, the Jamaican authorities are turning their attention to Negril, where decades of unplanned development is destroying the local ecosystem and eroding the famous beach.
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Tuna Fisheries Must Make Short-Term Sacrifices
Julio Godoy interviews marine biologist MARÍA JOSÉ JUAN JORDÁ *
BERLIN - For the last ten years, environmentalists and marine biologists have repeatedly warned that the world’s tuna populations, and particularly bluefin tuna, are being overfished to the verge of extinction.
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BRAZIL
Amazon Turtles - Illegal Protein for the Poor, Delicacy for the Rich
By Mario Osava
BAJO XINGU, Brazil - "Many people lie" about the common practice of poaching turtles to eat or sell, said a man renowned for his fishing skills who lives on the banks of the Xingu river in Brazil's eastern Amazon jungle region.
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ISRAEL
Togetherness Takes Wings
By Pierre Klochendler
HULA VALLEY - Hasn't anyone dreamt once of taking refuge under the shelter of a bird's wings, coiled up in its feathers, catching a bird’s eye view of what looks from above like paradise?
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INDIA
Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears
By Malini Shankar
DANDELI, India - Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat and food supply.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Kashmiri Farmers Left High and Dry
By Athar Parvaiz*
SRINAGAR - Sammad Sheikh of Tangchekh village in north Kashmir cannot understand why the rice fields that his family cultivated for generations are drying up.
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ENVIRONMENT
Seeing the Trees In The Year Of Forests
By A.D.McKenzie
PARIS - When firefighters arrived to put out a blaze that was engulfing the home of Elise Inversin on the French island of Corsica, the 66-year-old grandmother told firemen to forget about her house and save a neighbouring 900-year-old Mastic tree. The house could be rebuilt, she said.
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INDIA
Elephants and Mahouts Held Captive by Tradition
By Malini Shankar*
BANGALORE - As the number of captive elephants grows to 35 percent of the wild population of the world’s largest land-dwelling mammal, elephant trainers, or mahouts, find themselves just as chained to hardships as their charges.
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KAZAKHSTAN
Sea Reclaimed as Lake
By Christopher Pala
AKBASTE - Just six years after the completion of a dike that raised the level of the northern part of the Aral Sea by two metres and slashed its salt content by two-thirds, this remote Central Asian lake once synonymous with ecological catastrophe has become a model of environmental recovery.
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PERU
Campesinas Protect Traditional Diversity of Food Crops
By Milagros Salazar
PUNO, Peru - Dina Apomayta is heir to the 3,500-year legacy of the Andean cultures of Tiwanaku and Lupaca, which venerated the land. And she and many other rural women in Peru continue to nurture the agricultural biodiversity that has been handed down from generation to generation.
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ICELAND
US Moves Diplomatically Against Whaling
By Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK - U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to impose diplomatic rather than trade sanctions on Iceland because of the country’s whale-hunting activities.
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