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		<title>Environment Ministry, Madre de Dios To Protect Area From Mining, Deforestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 05:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Environment Minister Ricardo Giesecke and the regional president of Madre de Dios region, Luis Aguirre Pastor, signed an agreement  last Friday to protect some 85,000 km2 of rainforest that is under threat from deforestation and illegal mining. The agreement, signed as the government began a full-scale operation to bring illegal mining under control, seeks to strengthen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous communities sign up for forest conservation program</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixty four indigenous and rural communities in Peru have signed up to be part of a new government initiative aimed at conserving forests, state news agency Andina reported. The initiative is led by the Environment Ministry and involves paying communities 10 soles (about $3.62) a year for every hectare of forest that is incorporated into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madre de Dios declares giant otter representative species</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/04/madre-de-dios-declares-giant-otter-representative-species/12514/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lake Sandoval]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regional government of Peru’s south-eastern Madre de Dios department has declared the giant otter a representative species of the area, paving the way for actions to conserve its habitat. The department has 90 days to establish a conservation strategy for the giant otter and its habitat, daily El Comercio reported. The initiative comes after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists unearth 20 million year old fossilized brain in Amazonas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 11:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andean Air Mail &#38; PERUVIAN TIMES</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archaeology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peruvian scientists have unearthed a fossilized brain of a mammal that lived in the country’s northern jungle regions some 20 million years ago, daily El Comercio reported. The fossil was found in the basin of the Santiago River in the northern department of Amazonas on May 12 by a team led by paleontologist Klaus Hönninger. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany contributes 60 mn euros to forestry conservation projects</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/23/germany-contributes-60-mn-euros-to-forestry-conservation-projects/11009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andean Air Mail &#38; PERUVIAN TIMES</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peru and Germany have signed a joint strategy agreement in which Germany will contribute approximately 60 million euros for forestry conservation, state news agency Andina reported. The four-year strategy is for Sustainable Rural Development – Management of Natural Resources and Climate Change, which covers a series of projects operated by the Ministry of the Environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paved Inter-Oceanic Highway Jeopardizes Carbon-offset Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/15/report-paved-inter-oceanic-highway-jeopardizes-carbon-offset-plans/10897/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[High gold prices and the resurfaced Inter-Oceanic Highway are encouraging the migration of hundreds of informal miners to Madre de Dios region in search of the precious metal, and are jeopardizing the Peruvian government’s plans for carbon-offset deals, according to a report by The Daily Climate. Each day, some 200 informal miners from Peru’s highlands arrive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Tyrant Leech King&#8221; found in Peru&#8217;s Amazonia</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/16/tyrant-leech-king-found-in-perus-amazonia/5768/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of international scientists from universities in the United States, Peru, and Taiwan have identified a leech first discovered in Peru’s jungle regions that burrows into nasal cavities. The scientists have named it the Tyrannobdella rex, or “tyrant leech king.” According to a paper published this week in PLoS ONE, clinical history of the leech dates back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists report colony of Galápagos fur seals in northern Peru</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/28/scientists-report-colony-of-galapagos-sea-lions-in-northern-peru/4692/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Andean Region]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Organization for Research and Conservation of Aquatic Animals, or Orca, says a colony of fur seals endemic to the Galápagos Islands have established a colony off the coast of northern Peru as a result of increased sea surface temperature in the region. The colony includes 30 fur seals that traveled 1,500 kilometers, about 932 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru launches immunizations campaign against rabies in jungle communities</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/07/peru-launches-immunizations-campaign-against-rabies-in-jungle-communities/4394/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peru’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday ongoing immunizations against a possible outbreak of rabies in indigenous communities in the country’s north-eastern Amazonas department after the deaths of seven children bitten by bats. José Luis Bustamante, of the ministry’s Zoonosis Health Strategy, told state news agency Andina that health care officers have taken 4,200 doses of anti-rabies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disney Gives $1 mn to Peru Forest Conservation</title>
		<link>http://www.peruviantimes.com/06/disney-donates-1-million-to-peru-forest-conservation/4133/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alto Mayo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon Basin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Walt Disney Company is to invest $7 million this year in forest conservation programs, $1 million of which will be given to the Alto Mayo Protection Forest in the department of San Martin, in northern Peru. The Alto Mayo project, covering a virgin forest area of 300,000 hectares (1158 sq. miles), is managed by [...]]]></description>
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