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  Tropical wildfires pose new threat to coral reefs

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article reports on two reports in Science, the full text of which can be accessed from SciDev. The first of the Science reports provides evidence that the Indonesian forest fires created a 'red tide' when smoke from the fires landing on water increased the iron levels in the sea. The red tide suffocated the corals and seems to have caused serious damage to the reefs around the wildfires.
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  ‘Is the best the enemy of the good? Livelihoods perspectives on bushmeat harvesting and trade – some issues and challenges’

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2003

  This paper makes a case for bushmeat as a theme of interest to development policy. Drawing on a range of secondary sources, it argues that there are two principal reasons for development assistance to address the issue of bushmeat management: its importance in the livelihood strategies of the poor, and its relevance to wider issues of public governance in forest-rich areas.
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  Slash and burn – are shifting cultivators harming forests?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Everyone agrees that logging and agriculture can cause deforestation. But does shifting cultivation, or ‘slash and burn’ farming destroy forests particularly? Are local farmers solely to blame? Recent research by Overseas Development Institute (ODI) suggests the role of shifting farming in starting forest fires has been exaggerated. It is not, in fact, a major cause of biodiversity loss.
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  Healing the scars? Tracing links between environment, food and conflict in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  A University of Leeds collaborative study has probed links between environmental change and famine – two problems perceived to lie at the heart of Africa’s current crisis – in the context of another all too often linked to the continent - warfare and civil unrest.
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  Rewriting forest history in West Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Kissidougou in Guinea, West Africa, is characterised by so-called 'forest islands', relics - it was assumed -of original dense forest cover. It was also assumed that local cultivation practice was to blame for the destruction of the trees.
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  Democracy and deforestation. The politics of protecting the forests

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  How can the process of tropical deforestation be controlled? We now know a good deal about the causes of deforestation but not its control. Research from the University of Leeds in Thailand and the Philippines fills this gap, showing that changes in the domestic political scene explain how deforestation processes have been controlled in the two countries.
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  Money grows on trees: criminals get away with destroying Cambodia’s forests

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  In 1995, corrupt officials secretly awarded all of Cambodia’s unallocated forest, 35 per cent of the country’s total land area, as concessions to logging companies. How have these rogue loggers exploited political instability and weak government institutions to plunder Cambodia’s timber? Can anything be done to check the depredations of the ‘untouchables’ before Cambodia is logged out?
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  Curtains for sandflies? Controlling skin leishmaniasis in Venezuela.

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  The incidence of skin diseases, including leishmaniasis, spread by different varieties of sandflies in tropical areas has increased dramatically in humans. Because of deforestation, sandflies have encroached further into human settlements. Here they have begun to infect domestic animals and humans. What can be done to control this trend?
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  Overcoming environmental education challenges in Ethiopia: the role of non-formal education

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Is the formal education system the best avenue for delivery of effective environmental education? Can Ethiopia’s newly decentralised educational administrations work with other arms of government and farmers to tackle the short-term and unsustainable resource exploitation patterns which imperil prospects of ever achieving food self-sufficiency?
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  Living on the precipice: what future for mountain societies?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  2002 may have been designated International Year of Mountains, but is enough being done to conserve the mountain habitats which are home to 1 in 10 people and contain half the world’s biodiversity? Are mountain residents being consulted as plans are developed to check the threats posed by deforestation, mining, tourism, hydropower, environmental warming, conflict and natural disasters?

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