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12/28/00 -- War, drug trade cause Colombia ecological disaster
12/28/00 -- Violence ravages Colombian landscape
12/28/00 -- Battle over ecosystem in Ecuador's Galapagos Islands
12/28/00 -- Chihuahuan Desert thirsts for conservation
12/27/00 -- Ecuador: Quechua Indians Applaud Biosphere Listing
12/26/00 -- New species of frog discovered by research team in the Andes
12/26/00 -- Bilateral Panel requested a response of Chile's EPA
12/25/00 -- Update on the Cascada Chile project
12/15/00 -- Conservation shadows development in Cuba
12/13/00 -- Colombian tribe steps up battle against Occidental
12/03/00 -- Occidental drills on tribal
11/30/00 -- Unique Mexican Valley Protected Forever
11/23/00 -- Chile Hopes to Become World's Second Largest Timber Exporter
11/22/00 -- Galapagos Lobster Fishermen Smash Up Conservation Offices
11/22/00 -- Migrating Monarch Butterfly "In Serious Trouble"
11/21/00 -- Key Mexican Desert Land to Be Protected
11/20/00 -- Colombia's Environment a Casualty in US War on Drugs
11/18/00 -- Bolivians fight for forest certification
11/13/00 -- Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat
11/10/00 -- Mexico To Pay To Conserve Forests
11/10/00 -- Carbon trappers in new trade
11/10/00 -- Belize's Rainforests Saved by Historic Agreement on Maya Land
11/09/00 -- Mexican President Expands Butterfly Forest Haven
11/04/00 -- United States oil company drills near Indian land
11/03/00 -- US Oil Company Drills Near Indian Land
11/03/00 -- Chile Faces Rainforest Dilemma as Deforestation Set to Double
11/02/00 -- Mexico deputies moot amnesty for jailed ecologists
11/01/00 -- Jailing of Mexican ecologists protested
11/01/00 -- Groups aim to free Mexican activists
10/30/00 -- Letter from a Mexican Jail
10/29/00 -- VICTORY: Oil Exploration Ends in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
10/29/00 -- Guiana Shield media Project releases Documentary : Cowboys and Indians
10/29/00 -- Costa Rica struggling with tourism
10/27/00 -- A Farmer Learns About Mexico's Lack of the Rule of Law
10/24/00 -- Peru logging ban: Saving trees but boosting poverty
10/20/00 -- Mexican eco-activists protest comrades' jailing
10/19/00 -- Monarchs Fluttering Through World of New Perils
10/15/00 -- Peru: Modifications to the Forests and Wildlife Law
10/12/00 -- Polluters plant rain forests to earn eco rain checks
10/07/00 -- Mexican environmentalists warn about the monarch butterfly
10/04/00 -- Mahogany Tree's Survival in Doubt Due to U.S. Demand
09/28/00 -- Latin American Shrimp, Coffee, Wood, Charcoal Win Venture Capital
09/28/00 -- Ecuador: Urgent Action Alert in Support of Accion Ecologica
09/27/00 -- Mahogany's Survival Threatened by US Demand
09/26/00 -- Latin American Green Businesses Compete for Investors' Attention
09/25/00 -- Conservation International Creates New Market Mechanism to Conserve Global Forests
09/19/00 -- PERU: Last Uninhabited Jungle Saved by Film
09/18/00 -- Mexican environment officials freed by Indians
09/17/00 -- Shrinking habitat endangers Monarch butterfly
09/16/00 -- ECUADOR: Indians Ask Paris Club for Debt Write-off
09/16/00 -- US will Only Support Use of Fungal Agent Under Certain Conditions
09/15/00 -- Venezuela Indians topple pylons to halt power line
09/15/00 -- U'wa Leaders Present Proof of Royal Land Deeds
09/14/00 -- A small tribe battles big oil
09/14/00 -- Mexico seeks to save monarch butterfly habitat
09/14/00 -- Chiapas Indians Hold Officials Hostage
09/13/00 -- Mexico butterfly reserve damaged
09/12/00 -- Threatened Monarchs Lose Much of Their Winter Habitat
09/11/00 -- Cotacachi Eco County Approved
09/11/00 -- Chile foresters fight back with image campaign
09/07/00 -- Texaco, Oxy, Shell, and accountability
09/05/00 -- Guyana's Kaieteur Falls a secret ... for now
09/03/00 -- Colombia will not use Fungal Herbicide
08/31/00 -- Mexico ecologists slam jail sentences as political
08/29/00 -- Top environmentalists jailed in Mexico
08/29/00 -- Environmentalist Is Convicted in Mexico
08/28/00 -- Mexican judge jails ecologists for up to 10 years
08/28/00 -- Mexican Environmentalist Is Found Guilty
08/25/00 -- World Land Trust Preserves Patagonian Coastal Steppe Lands
08/25/00 -- Peru rainforest wins World Bank cash
08/24/00 -- Brazil Worried of Aid to Colombia
08/22/00 -- Jailed Mexican environmentalists may go free
08/21/00 -- Mexican Environmentalists Still in Jail Date
08/20/00 -- Chile Forest Project Tests Free Trade
08/15/00 -- Gore faces protests over Occidental Petroleum shares
08/15/00 -- McKinney Expresses Outrage at Absence of U'wa
08/14/00 -- U'Wa Banner dropped from Boston Gore HQ
08/14/00 -- PERU: Peasants and Big Business Fight Forestry Law
07/25/00 -- U.S. presses Colombia to use herbicide on coca
07/08/00--ExxonMobil Threatens Pristine Amazon Valley, Action Alert 150
07/07/00--Peru Seeks To Stem Amazon Logging
07/07/00--Peru sends army to stop logging
07/03/00--U'wa Blockade Attacked -- Call Al Gore
07/03/00--Central America bids for ecotourist dollars
07/02/00--US Prepares To Spray Genetically-Modified Herbicides On Colombians
06/29/00--Rare Puerto Rican Bird Release
06/25/00--Mexican activists pay price for opposing deforestation
06/16/00--Mexico's Mayan paradise on brink of extinction
06/09/00--Mexican President Urged to Free Conservationists
06/09/00--Panama inaugurates $30 mln ecotourism project
06/05/00--Mexico's natural beauty sullied by haze
05/29/00--Guyana Indigenous Peoples' Rights
05/25/00--U'wa Alert and Update!
05/22/00--Gore's Oil Money
05/20/00--Guatemalan Squatters Torching Park Forests
05/19/00--Mexico fires threaten Monarchs
05/17/00--Mexican Blaze Threatens Rare Monarch Butterfly
05/16/00--Mexico's Forests at a Watershed
05/16/00--Court Says U.S. Company May Drill in Colombia
05/16/00--Occidental Petroleum gets OK to drill near Indian lands in Colombia
05/16/00--U'wa to Appeal Legal Ruling on Oil Drilling
05/15/00--Global Response's "Quick Response Network:" Needs You
05/15/00--Has the Mexican Government Really Gone Green?
05/15/00--U'wa Alert!! Court Ruling Overturned in Oxy's Favor
05/11/00--Global Response Calls for Action
05/10/00--Peru: Tourism, Conservation Do Battle at 8,000 Feet
05/03/00--U'wa Articles on Oxy AGM day of action
05/03/00--Mexico Tries to Convince Chiapas Squatters to Leave
05/02/00--Mexico Urges Squatters To Move
05/02/00--Mexico Seeks to Save Chiapas Jungle
05/02/00--Mexico Seeks to Save Chiapas Jungle from Farmers
05/01/00--Palm Plantations Threaten Ecuadorian Choco Forest
04/28/00--Colombian U'wa Indians Arrive in Los Angeles Urging Divestment from Occidental Petroleum
04/24/00--International Paper Creates Chile Unit
04/24/00--Commission Investigates Jail Treatment of Mexican Environmentalist
04/18/00--Honduran Congress Seeks Troops to Protect Forests
04/15/00--Expert: Mayan Fall is Ecological Warning
04/05/00--Jailed Mexican Wins Environmental Prize
03/31/00--Colombia Oil Site Ruled 'Off-Limits' to Oxy
03/31/00--Colombian Court Halts Oil Drilling
03/31/00--Court suspends drilling by U.S. oil company near Indian lands
03/30/00--Colombia Oil Drilling Fight Wells Up in Congresswoman's Office
03/30/00--Forest Fires Blanket Honduras With Acrid Haze
03/29/00--Help Save Colombian Rainforests from Drug Spraying
03/29/00--Malaysian Firms Eye Peru's Amazon Jungle
03/28/00--Mexico urged to adopt eco-friendly coffee norms
03/28/00--NGOs: No Funds to Latin America for Destructive Development
03/25/00--World Environmental Fund Finances Reforestation Project
03/24/00--Panama project stalls raptor's flight to extinction
03/23/00--Mexico to Preserve Controversial Site
3/16/00--Logging Eats into Honduran Biosphere
3/16/00--Stop Oil Exploration in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
3/15/00--Mexico's President Cancels Salt-Producing Facility Near Lagoon
3/13/00--Several U'wa Disappear After Colombian Police and Army Violently Evict them from Land
3/10/00--Supporters of Colombia's U'wa Take Action in 20 Cities on Day of Solidarity
3/7/00--Condemn Murders of Conservationists in Guatemala; Demand Investigation
3/6/00--Express Condemnation Over Murder of Guatemalan Conservationists
3/3/00--Mexico President Halts Baja Salt Project
3/3/00--Mexico Salt Factory Dead in the Water
3/3/00--Mexico Deep-Sixes Plans for Pacific Coast Saltworks
3/3/00--Mexico Scraps Salt Works Near Whale Sanctuary
3/2/00--Mexico Scraps Salt Works Near Whale Sanctuary
3/2/00--Mexico: Shade-Grown Coffee Helps Save Forests
3/2/00--Mexico Scraps Salt Works Near Whale Sanctuary
3/2/00--Stop Petroleum Activities in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve
3/2/00--Guyana: Warning to Prince Charles Over Rainforest
2/28/00--New 'Giant Tree Rat' Discovered in Peru
2/25/00--Colombia's Coca is Killing Forests
2/25/00--Thousands of Colombians Join U'Wa in Re-Blockading Drill Site
2/24/00--U'wa Struggle is Gaining Worldwide Attention
2/22/00--U'wa Supporters Disrupt Democratic Presidential Debate
2/18/00--Colombia: Three U'wa Children Killed
2/17/00--Colombian Police Attack Peaceful U'wa Blockade
2/17/00--Colombia: Update on U'wa, Fidelity and Gore Campaign
2/16/00--Oregon Receives Timber Via Tierra del Fuego
2/15/00--Endangered Mexican Parrots Safe from Logging
2/15/00--Endangered Mexican Parrots Safe from Logging
2/13/00--Bank Puts Panama's Last Wilderness First
2/13/00--US Film Star Harrison Ford Ends Environmental 'Mission' to Guatemala
2/12/00--Conservation Group to Donate $35 Million to Study Guatemalan Rain Forest
2/10/00--Guatemalan Court Says that Oil Activity Violated Human Rights
2/8/00--Isolated Amazon Tribes Threatened By Logging
2/4/00--Environmentalists Worry Ecuador Will Drill for Dollars
2/3/00--Conservationists Plan to Make Trail Through Central American Forests
2/2/00--Fidelity, Gore Urged to Help Block Colombian Occidental Venture
2/2/00--Colombia: Fidelity Investments Ignores U'wa Struggle
2/1/00--Rainforest Indians from Peru and Ecuador Get New Chance in Texaco Suit
1/31/00--Drilling for Trouble: Should Gore Stop Colombia’s Occidental Petroleum?
1/28/00--The U'wa of Colombia Need Our Help
1/26/00--Colombian Troops Invade and Evict U'wa People
1/24/00--Logs Dragged Through Loophole in Bolivian Forest Law
1/24/00--Protest in Manchester, N.H. to Tell Al Gore to Make Colombia’s ‘Oxy’ to Stop
1/21/00--Colombian Tribe Battles Extinction; Says Dollars Don’t Compensate for Uprooted Culture
1/21/00--Ecuador Indians Seize Congress, Declare New Government
1/21/00--Colombian Army Invades U'wa Territory
1/19/00--Guyana: Chiefs Prepare International Law Suit Against Scientist Who Registered Indigenous Knowledge
1/19/00--Colombia: Support U’wa People Versus Occidental Petroleum
1/18/00--NGO Sign-on Letter for Mahogany Conservation
1/17/00--Feb. 3: Day of Solidarity and Action to Support Colombia’s U’wa Resistance
1/11/00--Indiscriminate Logging Jeopardizes South America’s Future
1/8/00--U'wa Day of Solidarity
1/7/00--Galapagos Iguanas Shrink to Survive El Nino
1/5/00--U.S. Biologists Plumb Their Pockets to Fund Dominican Park
1/4/00--Ecuador's Unprotected Protected Areas
1/3/00--Bolivia-Brazil Gas Line Draws Protests; Nature Groups Cite US Role
1/1/00--Gore: Stop Making a Killing on Oil in Colombia
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