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Wednesday, August 22, 2007:

Conservation and Environmental News Roundup - 22nd August 

Latest News Headlines

Carbon market encourages deforestation

A study has reported that the current carbon market actually encourages cutting down some of the world's largest forests, which would release tons of carbon into the atmosphere.

Read more: Study Suggests Carbon Market Encourages Chopping Forests (Environmental News Network)

Saving the Kakapo from extinction

The Kakapo, the largest of all parrot species and one of the most endangered birds in the world is being brought back from the brink of extinction with the help of scientists from the university of Glasgow.

Read more: Saving the remarkable kakapo from extinction (Alphagalileo)

Barbados wildfowlers slaughter migratory birds

Thousands of exhausted migrating birds are being slaughtered from hides on specially-created swamps in the south-east of Barbados.

Read more: Barbados wildfowlers attacked over 'slaughter' of birds migrating from US (The Telegraph)

EU biofuel policy is not an effective way to curb carbon emissions

Researchers say that forests can absorb up to nine times more CO2 than the production of biofuels could achieve on the same area of land.

Read more: EU biofuel policy is a 'mistake' (BBC News)

 
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