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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife: Champions for birds and people in Africa]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife Partners from across Africa have been meeting in Botswana this week to discuss progress on their shared conservation vision, and to develop plans for the coming two years.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-19</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife Partners call to save the Wadden Sea]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three BirdLife Partners have joined forces to fight for the conservation of the Wadden Sea -&nbsp;one of the last true wilderness areas in Northwest Europe.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-17</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA['State of the birds 2010' highlights threats to migrants]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Climate change threatens to further imperil hundreds of species of migratory birds, already under stress from habitat loss, invasive species and other environmental threats, concludes a new report.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-15</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Caribbean's first Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve designated]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Cabo Rojo Salt Flats have been designated as the Caribbean's first site of regional importance for shorebirds by the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-12</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Brazil's mightiest biomes get mapped the IBA way]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three of the most extensive biomes in the entire world - the Amazon Rainforest, the Pantanal Wetlands and the Cerrado savannas occur in Brazil. The Important Bird Areas of these three unique areas are now covered in a new publication.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-10</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The four pillars of BirdLife - February 2010 News]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The BirdLife International Partnership has four core conservation objectives: Saving species, protecting sites, conserving habitats and empowering people and February's news reflected these]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-09</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The World's Rarest Birds through the lens]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new international photo competition covering the world's 623 most threatened birds has just been launched. The photos submitted for the new competition will feature in a landmark publication - The World's Rarest Birds.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-08</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Black-faced Spoonbill numbers up again as Action Plans are launched]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International has compiled International Action Plans for three globally Endangered and Critically Endangered migratory waterbirds in Asia.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-05</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Slow Spring 2010 - Nature and photography event in Italy]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[From 1 April to 30 May 2010, DELTA 2000, a local Italian environmental organisation, with the support of LIPU will organise 'Slow Spring 2010'.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-04</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife seabird conservationist awarded 2010 Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[One man's quest to prevent one of the world's most threatened families of birds from slipping ever closer towards oblivion has been recognised with the award of a major international honour]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-03</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Saving rockhopper penguins]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rockhopper penguin populations are in serious decline worldwide, and the causes have been largely unknown. BirdLife is launching a new report which identifies the key threats, and outlines the steps which must be taken to help save rockhopper penguins.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-02</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Darwin Initiative commits to building a future for Haiti's unique biodiversity]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[BirdLife International, working with UK-based project partners has secured over US$450,000 from Defra's Darwin Initiative to conserve Haiti's unique biodiversity.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-03-01</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[New Haitian school under strain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 2007, BirdLife has been working with the Societe Audubon Haiti to develop sustainable livelihood strategies for the communities in the southern buffer zone of the Macaya National Park]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-25</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[News in Brief ]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/news_in_brief_02.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Stories in this News in Brief: WOW Newsletter available; Monitoring, indicators and targets; Is Europe ready for global leadership on biodiversity in 2010?; 2010: celebrating swallows; New site for owlet]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-23</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrating Natron's Flamingos with action]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 2010 World Wetlands Day celebrations in Tanzania focussed on a meeting to support the conservation of Lesser Flamingo through the completion of a National Single Species Action Plan...]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-18</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[BirdLife launches Africa Climate Exchange]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/africa_climate_exchange.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The BirdLife Africa Partnership has launched a new website about Climate Change and its impacts on biodiversity in Africa.&nbsp;]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-17</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Radar station in Madeira threatens Zino's Petrel]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/madeira.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Portuguese Government has finally started building a military radar on top of Pico do Areeiro.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-16</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Industrial windfarm development in Puerto Rican IBA rejected by government]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/pr_windfarm.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[SOPI (BirdLife in Puerto Rico) has applauded the decision to reject and suspend the siting permit for an industrial windfarm development in Karso del Sur Important Bird Area]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-15</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Birdfair continues to Prevent Extinction]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/birdfair_cheque.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[In its third and final year as Global Sponsor of the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme, the British Birdwatching Fair has delivered yet another huge boost to species conservation]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-12</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[NABU is 111 years old ]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/nabu_anniversary.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[NABU, the Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union (BirdLife in Germany) recently celebrated its 111-year anniversary.]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-10</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Nature is amazing - January 2010 News]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/round_up.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Watching a butterfly weaving its way along a summer meadow is one of life's greatest pleasures. But how many of us realise that these fragile creatures can undertake annual migrations of several thousand kilometres?]]></description>
<dc:date>2010-02-08</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[New website for Canadian Important Bird Areas programme]]></title>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/canada_ibas.html</link>
<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>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/world_wetlands_day.html</link>
<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>
<link>http://www.birdlife.org/news/news/2010/02/spring_alive.html</link>
<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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