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DEVELOPMENT-AFRICA: Time For Action on Violence Against Women
VENEZUELA: Regional Elections Double as National Referendum
EUROPE: Criticising Bush, And Copying Him
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/POLITICS-MALAWI: New Efforts for Citizen Power
RIGHTS-KYRGYZSTAN: Alarm After 'Lifers' Attempt Breakout
RIGHTS: How Child Friendly Is Africa
CHINA/US: Balking at Changing Dollar-Centric Economic Order
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Sanitation Concerns Shift Into Space
CULTURE-INDONESIA: Anti-Porn Law Reveals Growing Islamist Power
DEVELOPMENT-VIETNAM: Rare Criticism of Dams Surface
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U.S.-MEXICO: Fence to Carve Up Fragile Border Preserve
By Enrique Gili
SAN DIEGO, California - Another chapter in U.S.-Mexico border relations is about to close. In the waning days of the George W. Bush administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is completing construction of a 22-kilometre triple fence along the San Diego-Tijuana border.
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ENVIRONMENT-BURMA: Conflict Threatens Karen Biodiversity
By Keya Acharya
BANGKOK - On top of 60 years of military occupation, the Karen people of Burma are now facing severe impairment of their environmental and cultural foundations, say activists.
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BIODIVERSITY: Ten-Year Probe Reveals Oceans in Peril
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - A thousand points of light are being shone into the dark ocean depths as scientists from 82 countries work to complete the decade-long global research effort called the Census of Marine Life.
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BIODIVERSITY: The Real Price of Farmed Salmon
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - Salmon aquaculture is devastating the world's oceans and an international coalition of scientists, Canadian First Nations and tourism operators have called for a global moratorium.
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ARGENTINA: Newspaper Brings to Light Abuses against Poor Farmers
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - Small farmers in the northern Argentine province of Santiago del Estero are publishing their own newspaper in an attempt to raise awareness about the constant abuses they suffer at the hands of wealthy landowners, who are encroaching on their small plots of land.
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ENVIRONMENT: Costa Rica at a Crossroads
By Daniel Zueras*
SAN JOSÉ - The Crucitas open-pit gold mining project in northern Costa Rica could become an environmental cross to bear for the government of Óscar Arias.
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BIODIVERSITY: Unraveling the Mysteries of Salmon Migration
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - Tiny juvenile salmon have been electronically tracked for the first time from their natal rivers in the Rocky Mountains 2,500 kilometres north to Alaska.
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CHILE: Maize Contaminated with Transgenics
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - The Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA) at the University of Chile has detected genetically modified organisms in four samples of conventional maize grown near fields where transgenic maize seeds are being produced for export.
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ENVIRONMENT: Europe Casts a Net for Dying Fish
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - The European Union has resisted calls for a ban on fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean despite warning signs that the species is being exploited towards extinction.
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ARGENTINA: Caution and Enthusiasm for Fish Farming
By Marcela Valente*
BUENOS AIRES - Fish farming is expanding in Latin America, fuelled by the demands of a global market that is facing the stagnation of commercial fishing. But some people are warning about the limits of industrial production of fish and the environmental and social risks.
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ENVIRONMENT: Global Financial Crisis a Bad Sign for Andean Biodiversity
By Julio Godoy*
BARCELONA - The crisis affecting the financial sector and stock markets around the world could fuel the expansion of extractive industries in South America's Andean region, warn experts.
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ENVIRONMENT: Going Beyond Climate Change
Analysis by Ramesh Jaura
BARCELONA - While the financial mayhem continues to draw the headlines, the cost of persistent biodiversity loss has yet to be established. But it is believed to be bigger than that of the meltdown, and in many cases also irreparable.
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ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Illegal Trade Decimating Wildlife
By Malini Shankar*
BANGALORE - A great variety of endangered wildlife species end up feeding the illegal market for Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) thanks to poor enforcement in stopping the trade, say experts and activists.
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BIODIVERSITY: Mammals Face Extinction Crisis
By Alejandro Kirk*
BARCELONA - One in four mammals on Earth is at risk of disappearing forever, according to the new "Red List of Threatened Species" released by the Geneva-based International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on Monday.
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ENVIRONMENT: Twisted As Unnaturally as the Banks
By Julio Godoy*
BARCELONA - The financial meltdown in most of the industrialised world presents an opportunity for a new economic model that would end short-sighted search for high returns, according to leading economists attending the IUCN World Conservation Congress here.
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ARGENTINA: Guardians of the River
By Marcela Valente
PUERTO RECONQUISTA, Argentina - "There is no water…there are no fish," says Olga Ledesma, her skin weathered from 40 years of small-scale fishing, as the boat slowly winds its way along a branch of the Paraná river, South America’s second-longest river.
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ENVIRONMENT-AUSTRALIA: Discoveries Highlight Danger to Reefs
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - Efforts to create an inventory of life on Australia’s major coral reefs -- to be used as part of a baseline to determine the impacts of global warming and overfishing upon reefs -- have turned up hundreds of previously unknown and rare species.
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ARGENTINA: Women Create Food and Jobs in Wetlands
By Marcela Valente*
SANTA FE, Argentina - Wearing a cap and a white apron, Melina Lucero cuts the heads and tails off fish caught in the Paraná River, before skilfully filleting them. Her co-workers will process and package the fish to sell as traditional, small-scale fish preserves at food fairs along the banks of the river in Argentina.
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