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<title><![CDATA[Trans-boundary park will be a symbol of peace and stability]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Presidents of Sierra Leone and Liberia jointly inaugurated a Trans-boundary Rainforest Peace Park, which will protect one of the largest remaining blocks of intact forests of West Africa.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-05-15</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife International announces more Critically Endangered birds than ever before]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International’s latest evaluation of the world’s birds has revealed that more species than ever are threatened with extinction]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-05-14</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Darwin's Finches: Part Two]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The discovery of a new bird to science in a distant archipelago is providing evidence of how, in the absence of competitors, unique species can evolve rapidly to fill empty niches. But the archipelago is not the Galapagos, and the bird is not one of Darwin’s finches...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-03-12</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds show that world is falling short of biodiversity target]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 2002 the world’s governments took the unprecedented step of committing themselves to achieve a significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-10-09</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Business answers conservation call]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rio Tinto Alcan, a division of Rio Tinto, one of the world’s leading mining and exploration companies, has become the latest corporation to join the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-09-24</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Birds indicate biodiversity crisis – and the way forward]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Common birds are in decline across the world, providing evidence of a rapid deterioration in the global environment that is affecting all life on earth – including human life. All the world’s governments have committed themselves to slowing or halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010. But reluctance to commit what are often trivial sums in terms of national budgets means that this target is almost certain to be missed...]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-09-22</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Sir David Attenborough champions BirdLife International's work to halt extinctions]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sir David Attenborough, the greatest wildlife communicator of our age, has added his weight to the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme by becoming a Species Champion.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-08-18</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving the world's most threatened birds...]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[What’s the best way to save a species? For 99% of Globally Threatened Birds, safeguarding Important Bird Areas (IBAs) is a key part of the solution...]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-06-10</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Conference fails life on Earth]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity fails to address the urgency of biodiversity loss by 2010. Although 191 countries agreed in Bonn that the diversity of life on Earth is essential for human survival, and despite scientific proof that species are rapidly declining, they were unable to agree on many of the concrete steps forward that would have been necessary....]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-05-30</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Red List 2008: Climate change and continental drift]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate change has become firmly established as an accelerant to many of the factors which have put one in eight of the world's birds at risk of extinction, the 2008 IUCN Red List assessment for birds has found. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-05-19</dc:date>
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