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	<description>Mother Earth Journal &#124; Environmental journalism &#124; Terri Hansen reporting: Environment &#124; Science &#38;  Traditional Knowledge &#124; Climate, Sustainability &#38; Adaptation &#124; Environmental Health. For complete environmental coverage read This Week From Indian Country or visit Indian Country Today Media Network</description>
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		<title>Conserving Biodiversity Benefits World’s Impoverished Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/29/conserving-biodiversity-benefits-worlds-impoverished-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protecting land for biodiversity conservation delivers significant, life-sustaining services and income to the world's most impoverished people, yet conservation efforts and poverty alleviation efforts are at risk of failing, since this 'natural capital' is grossly undervalued in the global marketplace.
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		<title>$30,000 Reward for Information on Killings of Critically Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/23/30000-reward-for-information-on-killings-of-critically-endangered-hawaiian-monk-seals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservation organizations have joined to offer a reward for information about the recent killing of three critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals. The death of a fourth seal is also suspicious. Three were killed on Molokai, and the fourth on Kauai. Tip line: 1-855-DLNR-TIP.]]></description>
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		<title>Swinomish Tribe Watching Water Rights</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/02/swinomish-tribe-watching-water-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2012/01/02/swinomish-tribe-watching-water-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture, development and human activites have led to declines in salmon runs throughout Puget Sound. These activities lead to a reduction in the stream flows needed for salmon to spawn and migrate.]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas reindeer mystery as world’s largest herd plummets</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/12/22/christmas-reindeer-mystery-as-worlds-largest-herd-plummets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world's largest reindeer herd, which roams the vast tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada has plummeted in size. The local indigenous people blame the spread of massive industrial projects in the area.]]></description>
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		<title>Heed Ecological Insights of Tribal Peoples in Global Decisions at the COP17</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/29/heed-ecological-knowledge-and-insights-of-tribal-peoples-in-global-decisions-at-un-cop17-climate-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17) conference begins in Durban, South Africa, Indigenous advocacy group Survival International is calling for global decisions concerning climate change heed traditional ecological knowledge and insights of tribal peoples.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Virtuous Circles&#8217; That Mimic Natural Cycles Can Secure Food Supplies and Address Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/26/virtuous-circles-that-mimic-natural-cycles-can-secure-food-supplies-and-address-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/26/virtuous-circles-that-mimic-natural-cycles-can-secure-food-supplies-and-address-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adaptation │ mitigation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A book from the International Institute for Environment and Development paints a vivid picture of an alternative future in which food, energy and water supplies are sustainable and in the control of local communities. The authors call instead for circular systems that mimic natural cycles to produce food, energy, materials and clean water.]]></description>
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		<title>Squaxin Island Tribe and Cities Strike Deal on Deschutes River Habitat Restoration</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/25/squaxin-island-tribe-and-cities-strike-deal-on-deschutes-river-habitat-restoration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Squaxin Island Tribe and the cities of Olympia, Lacey and Yelm in Washington State are establishing the Deschutes Watershed Environmental Stewardship Coalition to focus on on-the-ground habitat restoration projects to jumpstart salmon productivity in the Deschutes River watershed.

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		<title>Portland Indian Leaders Share Release of &#8220;The Native American Community in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/5487/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/5487/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we celebrate National Native American Heritage Month, Portland's Indian Leaders Roundtable via a press release say they are excited to share the release of “The Native American Community in Multnomah County:  An Unsettling Profile” – the most widespread study of an urban Indian community, in this case, Portland, Ore. 

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		<title>Native American Journalists Association Welcomes New Board Members</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/native-american-journalists-association-welcomes-new-board-members/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/23/native-american-journalists-association-welcomes-new-board-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) board of directors is pleased to welcome two new board members: Mary Hudetz and Robert L. Ortiz.
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		<title>&#8220;End the Secrecy!&#8221; Says Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/11/21/end-the-secrecy-says-sarstoon-temash-institute-for-indigenous-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management Demands Explanation for US Oil Company’s Return to National Protected Land]]></description>
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		<title>Mysterious Disease Killing Arctic Alaska Ringed Seals</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/mysterious-disease-killing-arctic-alaska-ringed-seals/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/mysterious-disease-killing-arctic-alaska-ringed-seals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mysterious and potentially widespread disease is leading to the deaths of dozens of ringed seals along Alaska's Arctic coast. ]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal Individuals Eligible For Feathers From Hawks, Falcons, and Other Migratory Birds</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/tribal-individuals-eligible-for-feathers-from-hawks-falcons-and-other-migratory-birds/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/18/tribal-individuals-eligible-for-feathers-from-hawks-falcons-and-other-migratory-birds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through agreements with USFWS-Southwest Region, SIA Comanche Nation Ethno-Orintological Institute, and Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation, tribal inviduals are eligible to apply for non-eagle feathers, including feathers from hawks, falcons and other federally regulated migratory birds.
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		<title>World Leaders Shout Out: Heed Health and Security Threats of Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/17/world-leaders-shout-out-heed-health-and-security-threats-of-climate-change/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/17/world-leaders-shout-out-heed-health-and-security-threats-of-climate-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate change will not only bring a global health catastrophe, but has the potential to threaten global stability and security, warn medical groups, scientists, environmental health experts, and leading public figures.
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		<title>Salmon Restoration on Northern California Eel River Gaining Momentum</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/17/salmon-restoration-on-northern-california-eel-river-gaining-momentum/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/17/salmon-restoration-on-northern-california-eel-river-gaining-momentum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends of the Eel River issued a call for local residents to watch for and report sightings of Chinook salmon migrating up the Eel River and its tributaries in northern California. The non-profit advocacy organization will use “fish-watcher” reports to build a more detailed picture of salmon spawning and migration patterns on the river.]]></description>
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		<title>Shoreline Modifications Contribute to Salmon Loss and Decline in Western Washington</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/15/shoreline-modifications-contribute-significantly-to-salmon-loss-and-decline-in-western-washington/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Piling on Puget Sound, a three-part series by the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission looks at how shoreline modifications – seawalls, bulkheads, docks, boat ramps and the like that eat up another mile of Puget Sound shoreline every year contribute significantly to the loss and decline of salmon and their habitat.
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		<title>There Are A Lot More Elwhas Out There</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/10/07/there-are-a-lot-more-elwhas-out-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billy Frank Jr.: We all owe a big “thank you” to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. They never gave up on getting those two dams torn down.]]></description>
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		<title>The Lummi&#8217;s Environmental Concerns and Solutions, in Rich Multimedia. Take the Kids.</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/28/the-lummis-environmental-concerns-and-solutions-in-rich-multimedia-take-the-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lummi Nation is one of four tribes from the four directions offering sound earth science lessons. Here are Native perspectives in a rich interactive multi-media presentation. Kids, take an adult with you to answer the questions you're sure to have.]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks Cables Expose Chevron Lobbied Ecuador to Kill $18 Billion Environmental Case</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/24/wikileaks-cables-expose-chevron-lobbied-ecuador-to-kill-18-billion-environmental-case/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/24/wikileaks-cables-expose-chevron-lobbied-ecuador-to-kill-18-billion-environmental-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 05:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental disasters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chevron engaged in a clandestine lobbying campaign of Ecuador's government to improperly shut down a historic environmental case brought by thousands of indigenous persons for contamination of the rain forest by the oil giant, ordered to pay $18.2 billion to clean up the damage, according to a series of cables written by U.S. government officials and released by Wikileaks.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed Alaska Coal Mine Divides Community, Elicits Racism</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/21/proposed-coal-mine-divides-an-alaska-community-elicits-racism/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/09/21/proposed-coal-mine-divides-an-alaska-community-elicits-racism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wishbone Hills coal mine, a controversial project proposed by the Usibelli Mine Company five miles west of the small community of Sutton, Alaska, and Chickaloon Village of the Chickaloon Tribe, is driving a wedge between local community members.]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Traffickers Overrun Guard Post Set Up to Protect Uncontacted Amazon Indians</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/08/15/drug-traffickers-overrun-guard-post-set-up-to-protect-uncontacted-amazon-indians/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/08/15/drug-traffickers-overrun-guard-post-set-up-to-protect-uncontacted-amazon-indians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brazilian guard post protecting Indians who have never had any contact with others and who were filmed for the first time from the air earlier this year has been over-run, and ransacked by heavily-armed suspected drug-traffickers.]]></description>
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		<title>Olympia&#8217;s Deschutes River Restoration Rare Opportunity to Revive a  Puget Sound Estuary</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/27/olympias-deschutes-river-restoration-offers-rare-opportunity-to-revive-a-puget-sound-estuary/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/27/olympias-deschutes-river-restoration-offers-rare-opportunity-to-revive-a-puget-sound-estuary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitol Lake in Olympia, Wash., is a human creation that disrupted the biologically rich Deschutes tidal basin in 1951. Its stagnant waters attract invasive plants and animals, and harbor unsafe levels of E.coli. Fishing, swimming, and boating is no longer allowed. Restoring the estuary is still debated.]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Spraying Destroys Amazon Forest Uncontacted Indians Relied On</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/25/chemical-spraying-destroys-amazon-forest-that-uncontacted-indians-relied-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/25/chemical-spraying-destroys-amazon-forest-that-uncontacted-indians-relied-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environmental health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large stretch of Amazon forest relied on by uncontacted Indians for their plant and animal foods was illegally destroyed with chemical defoliant sprayed from an airplane. The 178 hectare of dead trees was discovered by Brazil's environment agency.]]></description>
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		<title>Tour operators oppose human safaris</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/12/tour-operators-oppose-human-safaris/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/12/tour-operators-oppose-human-safaris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Association of Tour Operators in India’s Andaman islands has come out in support of Survival’s call for tourists to stop using the illegal road that cuts through the forests of the recently contacted Jarawa tribe.]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting Mother Earth Gathering in North Dakota July 28-31</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/08/protecting-mother-earth-gathering-in-north-dakota-july-28-31/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/07/08/protecting-mother-earth-gathering-in-north-dakota-july-28-31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Water, Energy, Climate, and the Importance of Health &#038; and Culture” theme fits the situation of Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation community hosts. An oil boom has created social, economic, environmental, and cultural changes for which they were unprepared. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fever. Climate Stories from Indigenous Communities</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/fever-and-conversations-with-the-earth-bring-climate-stories-from-indigenous-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/fever-and-conversations-with-the-earth-bring-climate-stories-from-indigenous-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life Mosaic, and Conversations With the Earth make possible films produced by indigenous communities that describe modern day climate changes from their unique ancestral perspective. How they use age-old knowledge to meet the challenges of a climate in change should interest communities around the globe.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal, Sports Fishing, and Environmental Organizations Move to Protect Water for Salmon</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/tribal-sports-fishermen-and-environmental-organizations-challenge-legal-manuever-that-impacts-salmon-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/tribal-sports-fishermen-and-environmental-organizations-challenge-legal-manuever-that-impacts-salmon-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Karuk Tribe, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Institute for Fisheries Resources, and Klamath Riverkeeper moved to intervene in a case challenging California Department of Fish and Game authority to regulate water diversions for farmland irrigation.]]></description>
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		<title>One of Amazon&#8217;s Last Nomadic Tribes Struck By Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/one-of-amazons-last-nomadic-tribes-hit-by-epidemic/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/24/one-of-amazons-last-nomadic-tribes-hit-by-epidemic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An outbreak of respiratory disease struck one of the Amazon’s last nomadic tribes, which has already seen their numbers decimated by flu and malaria. Around 35 Nukak-Maku, including nine children, were admitted to a hospital well over capacity in the Colombian Amazon, leaving some in make-shift beds.]]></description>
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		<title>Tribe, Conservation Groups Win Suit Against Forest Service</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/16/tribe-conservation-groups-win-suit-against-forest-service/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/16/tribe-conservation-groups-win-suit-against-forest-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ruled that California's Six Rivers National Forest Violated National Historic Preservation Act in conducting its Orleans Timber Harvest.]]></description>
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		<title>Penan Hunter-Gatherers Pushed From Rainforest to Make Way for Dam</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/</link>
		<comments>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/15/penan-hunter-gatherers-pushed-from-rainforest-to-make-way-for-dam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Malaysian government is moving more than 1,000 Penan hunter-gatherers out of their rainforest home against their will to make way for the controversial Murum hydroelectric dam, the first in a series of twelve that will flood Penan and other indigenous villages.]]></description>
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		<title>Philanthropists and Indigenous Leaders Talk Solutions to World&#8217;s Pressing Issues</title>
		<link>http://mother-earth-journal.com/2011/06/14/philanthropists-and-indigenous-leaders-talk-solutions-to-worlds-pressing-issues-at-ifip-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 03:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Hansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Influential philanthropists and Indigenous leaders met last month at the tenth conference of the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, and came up with innovative solutions based on thousands of years of ancestral knowledge to some of the world's most pressing problems.]]></description>
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