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Billion Tree Campaign Sets New Goal of 7 Billion Trees by '09

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Posted by geri   
Monday, 19 May 2008
arbordaytree.jpgSince meeting its goal in 2007 of planting 1 billion trees, a grassroots effort to green the globe has announced that it is raising its target to 7 billion new trees.

The Billion Tree Campaign, founded in 2006 by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Kenyan Green Belt Movement founder Professor Wangari Maathai and Prince Albert II of Monaco, also announced last week that in 18 months it has seen two billion trees planted, double its original target.
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Wounded Bald Eagle May Get Bionic Beak

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Posted by geri   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
bionic-eagle.jpgAn American Bald Eagle was found with it's top beak shot off, tragically leaving it unable to tear its prey or feed itself.  The Raptor Chapter of Idaho and a team of volunteer researcher engineers are looking at giving the eagle, named Beauty, a bionic beak.

Read about the mechanical engineers with real heart -- and read news about them. And, here's a YouTube Video.

Thanks to Emily H. and Asana D. for sending the story!
 

Restoration Of A Tropical Rain Forest Ecosystem

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Posted by geri   
Tuesday, 06 May 2008
DSC00628.jpgHalf a century after most of Costa Rica's rain forests were cut down, researchers are attempting what many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem. When the researchers planted worn-out cattle pastures in Costa Rica with a sampling of local trees in the early 1990s, native species of plants began to move in and flourish, raising the hope that destroyed rain forests could one day be replaced.

Ten years after the tree plantings, researchers counted the species of plants that took up residence in the shade of the new planted areas. They found remarkably high numbers of species -- more than 100 in each plot. And many of the new arrivals were also to be found in nearby remnants of the original forests. (ScienceDaily, 2008-04-30)
 

Volunteers Restore Rivers Across America

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Posted by Michael Fox   
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
"Federal agencies, states, tribes and concerned residents are spending millions of dollars and thousands of hours on 37,000 river restoration projects under way to reverse decades of poor management and combat the mounting threats of population and climate change... Dozens of volunteers spent a recent day planting native trees along a half-mile stretch of the Santa Fe River that has been reduced to a dry, sandy wash." (Good News from CNN's Planet in Peril series )
 

Penguin's Custom Wetsuit Puts Him Back in Swim of Things

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Posted by geri   
Saturday, 26 April 2008
magellanic-penguin.jpgTo help a balding penguin to swim again rather than shivering on the sidelines while his 19 peers played in the water, biologists at the California Academy of Sciences had a wetsuit created for an elderly African penguin. (Canadian TV Science News) Thanks to Shelley for submitting story!
 
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