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DATE	TITLE	AUTHOR


01/10/2012	Annual Report Card 2011 Making the Forest Sector Transparent is a four-year programme supporting civil society groups in forest-rich ...	Global Witness
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19/03/2012	Use of Airborne LiDAR to Delineate Canopy Degradation and Encroachment Along the Guatemala-Belize Border Tropical rainforest clearing and degradation significantly reduces carbon sequestration and increases ...	Tropical Conservation Science (John F. Weishampel, Jessica N. Hightower, Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase)
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NEWS

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01/03/2013	Environmental factors drive moves that lead to deforestation Land scarcity and soil degradation drive people to migrate to the forest frontier of northern Guatemala ...	Environmental Research Web
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17/12/2012	Deforestation wreaks havoc in Guatemala’s Caribbean region Guatemala City - “Many tourists come to this area for bird watching, but the terrible deforestation ...	IPSNews
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08/10/2012	In the land of the Maya, a battle for a vital forest In Guatemala’s vast Maya Biosphere Reserve, conservation groups are battling to preserve a unique ...	Yale Environment 360
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19/09/2012	LAC Forestry and Environmental Communicators Network formed A workshop of Latin American journalists and other communicators organized by the UN Food and Agriculture ...	IISD Biodiversity Policy & Practice
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18/09/2012	An inside look at Latin America’s illegal logging – part one This post was co-authored with Eduardo Arenas Hernández Jr. and Ana Domínguez, who work ...	World Resources Institute (WRI) Insights
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19/03/2012	Airborne lasers discover undocumented deforestation in Belize park A NASA funded expedition using airborne lasers to study ancient Mayan ruins has also documented widespread ...	Mongabay.com
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20/02/2012	Seizures point to timber trafficking ring in Guatemala Recent seizures of illegally trafficked timber in Guatemala suggests there is an organized smuggling ...	InSight Crime, US / Colombia
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15/12/2011	Little headway in Durban on deforestation: experts Brasilia - The UN's Durban conference on climate change failed to make enough headway in efforts ...	AFP
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06/12/2011	Seismic trails cut by U.S. oil firm in Belizean national park used by illegal loggers By Robin Oisín Llewellyn, special to mongabay.com In the Belizean rainforest two rangers look ...	Mongabay.com
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22/11/2011	Guats caught red-handed razing Chiquibul Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD), the NGO co-managing the Chiquibul National Park with ...	Amandala Online, Belize
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19/11/2011	Chiquibul cheated of US $8M Belize has lost more than US$8 million in timber and xate to Guatemalans encroaching on Belizean land, ...	The Reporter, Belize
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11/11/2011	Guat illegal logging - "A time bomb in the Chiquibul!" Information reaching our newspaper from conservationists in southern and western Belize confirms that ...	Amandala Online, Belize
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07/10/2011	War on drugs: deforestation and pollution One of the frequently overlooked costs of the war on drugs is its negative impact on the environment ...	Guatemala News
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14/07/2011	Chiquibul forest shootout between BDF & Guatemalan loggers For a one and half years now we've been telling you about the increasing encroachments in the Chiquibul ...	7 News Belize
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12/07/2011	A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest Expansion of sugar exports, demand for palm oil, cattle farming and subsistence communities pushed off ...	Guardian, UK
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20/05/2011	Illegal logging in Chiquibul costing Belize at least $15 million Executive Director of Friends for Conservation and Development (FCD), Rafael Manzanero, said Tuesday ...	Amandala Online, Belize
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23/02/2011	Conservation projects in Guatemala and Nepal win UN environment prize A forest conservation initiative in Guatemala and a sustainable development project in Nepal are the ...	UN News Centre
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15/02/2011	Central America has highest rate of forest loss in region Guatemala City - Central America has suffered the highest rate of forest loss in Latin America over the ...	IPS News
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15/12/2010	Chiquibul: under sustained attack ...	7 News Belize
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23/09/2010	Keeping it in the community: Well-organised locals often make the best forest managers, but they need help At a sawmill in the misty hills of Michoacán in central Mexico, loggers sporting damp sombreros ...	The Economist, UK
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17/07/2010	Ranchers and drug barons threaten rain forest El Mirador, Guatemala — Great sweeps of Guatemalan rain forest, once the cradle of one of the world’s ...	The New York Times
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07/06/2007	Cedar, rosewood fail to win protection at U.N. talks The Hague, The Netherlands - Bids to curb logging of South and Central American cedar and rosewood trees, ...	Reuters (UK)
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21/03/2006	Successful regional workshop on forest independent monitoring The first Regional Workshop on Forest Independent Monitoring took place in Honduras, from February 26th ...	ACICAFOC (Costa Rica)
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17/11/2005	Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures Nigeria has the world's highest deforestation rate of primary forests according to revised deforestation ...	Mongabay.com
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