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Posts in this category are about Core Reserves. Their purpose is to maintain fully functional ecosystems with a complete suite of native species. Reserves provide essential habitat for a wide range of plants, mammals, insects, birds, fish, and other organisms. Other creatures need protected habitat to survive and evolve and many can only do so in the absence of human development.

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Kuwaiti Scientists Say Peak Oil Will Arrive in 2014

Source: PlanetSave Gas 2.0 - Posted: March 10, 2010 16:17

New research out of Kuwait, using a new method of calculating the crude oil production potential of 47 of the world’s largest oil producing countries, has found that peak oil — the period in time when oil production reaches a maximum and then begins to decline — will come much sooner than expected… 2014 to be exact.

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PERU: Suspension of Mining Operation Merely a Placebo

Source: Inter Press Service Environment - Posted: March 10, 2010 09:44
LIMA, Mar 9 (IPS) - Although the Peruvian government reported that it had suspended the exploration activities of the Afrodita mining company in the country's northern Amazon jungle region to avoid further protests by local indigenous people, officials took no actual steps to bring the firm's work to a halt.
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ECUADOR: Avatar Downfall a Blow for Indigenous Communities

Source: Inter Press Service Environment - Posted: March 10, 2010 09:44
QUITO, Mar 9 (IPS) - Science fiction blockbuster Avatar was the big loser in the Oscar awards ceremony - not only a blow for director James Cameron but also seen as a symbolic reverse in the struggle to recover Amazon rainforest areas in Ecuador from the effects of oil pollution.
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