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<dc:date>2009-07-09T01:14:08-00:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[H.I.H. Princess Takamado of Japan celebrates BirdLife’s Spring Alive campaign]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On 12 July 2009, BirdLife International and the Mitsubishi Corporation Fund for Europe and Africa celebrated the success of Spring Alive in the presence of H.I.H. Princess Takamado of Japan.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-07-13</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Jerdon's Courser seeks Champion, as survey work resumes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Conservation work on Jerdon's Courser has been stepped up again, after a successful advocacy campaign against the construction of the Teluga Ganga Canal.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-07-08</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife News-Byte #13]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stories in this BirdLife News-Byte: House Crow eradicated from Socotra; First protection for Critically Endangered wren; Summer visitor making a swift exit; ATF report published; Connecting bird-ringers in Africa]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-07-06</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife News Round-up June 2009]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Looking at June’s news there is a real positive theme of success and action. Conservation needs investment and several of June’s stories reported on grants being awarded to the BirdLife Partnership and the launching of funding opportunities for conservation.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-07-03</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[One million Southern African bird records!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just two years ago, an exciting project was initiated to map the distribution of birds in Southern Africa using the efforts of keen civil society volunteers. The millionth record has just been&nbsp;submitted to the project! ]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-07-02</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Five challenging keys for Sweden to unlock Europe’s environmental problems]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International presented its five top priorities for the Swedish EU Presidency, that starts today.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-07-01</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife and CEPF expand funding opportunities for conservation in Indochina  ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund opportunities in Indochina have been expanded, with an invitation for applications from Lao P.D.R. and Thailand ]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-30</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[New grassroots approach helps conserve Fijian forest]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The people of Kadavu (Fiji) could become a model for other Pacific Island nations following a new BirdLife conservation initiative that is helping to protect forests in island countries around the region. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-29</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Aves Argentinas launches national fund for IBA conservation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Aves Argentinas&nbsp;is inviting applications for a new grants programme aimed at promoting the conservation of the country's Important Bird Areas (IBAs)&nbsp;and threatened birds. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-25</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Help the storks while shopping!]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/lipu_credit_card.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[LIPU (BirdLife in Italy) and&nbsp;one of the main Italian banks set up a credit card that helps nature.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-24</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Hope for Seychelles' last Critically Endangered species]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The first Seychelles Paradise-flycatcher chicks to fledge successfully outside La Digue Island, Seychelles for over 60 years are flying on Denis Island.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-23</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Sustainable forest management increases local income one hundred-fold]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Tanzanian group supported by The Conservation Leadership Programme has helped two local communities to become fully-certified sustainable forest managers. “It ensures that the forests are managed sustainably and that local communities can earn over 100 times more from their woodlands than they have done previously”...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-22</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Exploring the 'Google forest']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists who recently used Google Earth to help discover a hidden forest in Mozambique, have been finding a wealth of new species. "Whatever we see we pick up, and there's a high probability that it's going to be a new species”...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-18</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife grant helps Endangered shorebird]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A grant from the BirdLife International Community Conservation Fund is helping establish a new population of Endangered Shore Plover on Mana Island, New Zealand...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-16</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/neotrop_migs.html">
<title><![CDATA[Neotropical migratory bird grants link sites and people along the Americas flyway]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/neotrop_migs.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[BirdLife Partners throughout the Americas will benefit from $4.8 million in US Fish and Wildlife Service grants for projects supporting Neotropical migratory bird conservation]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-15</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/news_byte_12.html">
<title><![CDATA[BirdLife News-Byte #12]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/news_byte_12.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stories in this BirdLife News-Byte: Conserving bustards in South Africa; Hawaiian honeycreepers; Twelve thousand people celebrate the 4th Brazilian Birdwatching Fair; Botswanan children celebrate migratory birds; Free tools for conservation]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-12</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[TransCanada Corporation commits a million dollars to bird conservation]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/transcanada.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Nature Canada (BirdLife Partner) has announced that TransCanada Corporation will support an initiative to protect important bird habitat across the country]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-11</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Green 10: European Commission off target]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/g10_report.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The environmental record of the outgoing European Commission is worryingly off target, the ‘Green 10’ coalition of leading environmental organisations said.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-10</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Latvian Ornithological Society wins award]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/latvian_award.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[LOB (BirdLife in Latvia) has received the Latvian Award as the “Most Successful Fundraising NGO in 2008”. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-09</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Imagine a world without fish]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/end_of_the_line.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Today, on world Oceans Day, a powerful new film - The End of the Line - highlights the problems of over-fishing, and predicts that many important stocks will be in a state of collapse by 2050. However, 17 Pacific island nations recently set a global precedent by ensuring that over 50 million square kms of ocean will be closed to tuna purse-seine fishing...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-08</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/wader_atlas.html">
<title><![CDATA[Wader populations decline faster than ever]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/wader_atlas.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to a new publication by Wetlands International, more than half the populations of waders in Europe, West Asia and Africa are declining at an accelerating rate...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-04</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/round_up.html">
<title><![CDATA[Conservation works - May 2009 News]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/round_up.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Being a Partnership of more than 100 organisations working together, BirdLife is at the forefront of conservation – for birds, for biodiversity, and for people. Reflecting on our news from last month really illustrates the depth and breadth of our combined achievements...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-03</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/africa_climate_change.html">
<title><![CDATA[African IBA network 'robust' in the face of climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/africa_climate_change.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[21st Century climate change could see the ranges of many African bird species moving beyond the boundaries of the sites established for their protection]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-02</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/margaret_atwood.html">
<title><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood supports BirdLife’s Born to Travel Campaign]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/06/margaret_atwood.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[“Conserving our precious migratory birds requires a united international effort”, said Margaret Atwood - Booker Prize-winning novelist and environmentalist. “With Partners located along the world’s many bird flyways, BirdLife is providing a safer journey for our endangered globe-trotters, but it needs more support”.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-06-01</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[How green is EU's development aid ]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/05/envi_tools.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International, FERN and WWF presented a new study analysing how useful are the EU tools designed to integrate environmental concerns into its development aid.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-05-29</dc:date>
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