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<dc:date>2009-07-28T01:14:18-00:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Nature is amazing - January 2010 News]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Watching a butterfly weaving its way along a summer meadow is one of life&rsquo;s greatest pleasures. But how many of us realise that these fragile creatures can undertake annual migrations of several thousand kilometres? A new study has shed light on how they manage it - with an inbuilt compass that enables them to select winds which will take them in their chosen direction at speeds of up to 100 km per hour. Nature is truly amazing and something to celebrate...]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-08</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[New website for Canadian Important Bird Areas programme]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International's Canadian co-partners Bird Studies Canada and Nature Canada have launched a new website for the Canadian Important Bird Areas (IBA) Programme]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-04</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife cares for wetlands]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today is World Wetlands Day and this year's theme - Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change - highlights the bonds between wetlands, biodiversity and climate change.&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-02</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Spring is coming!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International has once again launched its annual Spring Alive campaign to celebrate the miracle of bird migration.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-01</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Twelve years of site support in Burkina Faso]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In 1997, Georges Oueda of Naturama (BirdLife in Burkina Faso) came to the northern wetland of Oursi to find volunteers to perform water bird counts, he asked the mayor of Oursi town to identify young people keen to be trained as ornithologists...]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-29</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[News in Brief ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stories in this News in Brief: Common Crane is Armenia's Bird of the Year; Audubon California expands habitat protection; Get your hands on the Indochinese Babbler; Enforcing the US Migratory Bird Treaty Act; International action to stop illegal hunting in Malta]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-27</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Biodiversity on the brink]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International presents 'Biodiversity on the Brink', a photo exhibition of Europe's natural wonders]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-26</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Impact of nature's invading aliens measured for the first time ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Invasive alien species, ranging from disease and plants, to rats and goats, are one of the top three threats to life on this planet, according to a new publication]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-25</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[It's time to protect Europe's seabirds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the last decade an estimated two million seabirds are thought to have died at the hands of the European fishing industry in the waters around Europe and the Atlantic.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-22</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Preventing extinction through education]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The BirdLife International China Programme in conjunction with the Zhejiang Wild Bird Society and the Fujian Bird Watching Society organised a succesful&nbsp;series of educational student workshops to raise awareness of a species rarer than the Giant Panda]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-21</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Music and Migration - music for the birds]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International is proud to present the launch of the CD 'Music &amp; Migration'&nbsp;in support of&nbsp;the Born to Travel Campaign.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-20</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[International action to stop illegal hunting in Malta ]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife Malta and the BirdLife International Partners in Europe and Africa have launched an international campaign&nbsp;demanding the proper enforcement of the EU Birds Directive...]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-18</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA['World's least known bird' found breeding in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The breeding site of one of the world's least known birds, Large-billed Reed-warbler, has been discovered north-eastern Afghanistan]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-15</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[International Year of Biodiversity is not just a celebration, but a call to action]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The United Nations has launched 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity at an event in Berlin, Germany]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-12</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Partners for Nature - December 2009 News]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/01/round_up.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Being the world’s largest network of conservation organisations working together is what BirdLife does best and this was highlighted in our December news stories...]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-08</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A model for wildlife-friendly energy development]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/01/sage_grouse.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Newly announced changes to United States Bureau of Land Management leasing policies offer enhanced protection for Near Threatened Greater Sage-grouse and an innovative model for wildlife-friendly energy development.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-01-06</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[New warbler found in South-East Asia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new species of warbler has been described from the karst limestone country of Vietnam and Laos by scientists from BirdLife International and other groups]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-29</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife and Audubon's conservation work gets Royal support]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA["Protecting threatened species is vitally important to developing a different relationship with our planet", said HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco at a recent event in Washington DC, United States.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-22</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/tana_update.html">
<title><![CDATA[Kenya's Tana River Delta under siege]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/tana_update.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Tana River Delta in Kenya's north coast is under unprecedented threat. Nature<EM>Kenya</EM>&nbsp;is working with local communities to try and stop the proposed developments which would result in tens of thousands of people losing their livelihoods...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-21</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[COP-out at Copenhagen]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/cop_ends.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The fair, ambitious and legally binding agreement to tackle climate change, which was scheduled to be finalised at the recently concluded UNFCCC Climate Change Conference (COP) in Copenhagen, did not materialise.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-21</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[News in Brief  #22]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/news_in_brief_22.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stories in this News in Brief:&nbsp;Search for wintering Slender-billed Curlews;&nbsp;Wetland and Waterbird Monitoring Training in Mozambique]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-18</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Forests of Hopenhagen]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/forests.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International has created the Forests of Hope programme to bring together and build on its successful forest conservation and management programmes throughout the tropics]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-17</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Partnerships strengthen migratory bird conservation in West Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/west_africa_migratory_birds.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Six countries in West Africa have committed to conserving IBAs for migratory birds along their coastlines.&nbsp;“The project offers an opportunity for coordinated monitoring and conservation of IBAs along the coast of West Africa”, said Dr Hazell Shokellu Thompson...]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-16</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[NABU protects unique wild coffee forests in Ethiopia]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/nabu_event.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[NABU (BirdLife in Germany), in cooperation with the Ethiopian Government and other partners, will run a special project to protect the last natural forests where the world famous 'arabica' coffee is produced.]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-15</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife's case for the role of ecosystems in climate change adaptation]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2009/12/partners.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[One of BirdLife's '5 Asks' at the United Nations Climate Change Conference is for the recognition of the vital importance of safeguarding biodiversity, ecosystems and the essential services they provide in climate change adaptation. ]]></description>
<dc:date>2009-12-10</dc:date>
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