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it’s hard to care for so many thirsty babies
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 12th, 2011
Guardian: Native ... the cassowary, a large flightless bird, is found in the rainforests of far north Queensland. Photograph: Fredrik Von Erichsen/AFP/Getty Images
I'm on the Atherton tablelands, in far north Queensland, to participate in a bit of reforestation. This is no ordinary tree-planting exercise. It is the beginning of a long-term reforestation experiment: a planting of 28,000 trees. The aim is to identify a cost-effective way to recreate rainforest biodiversity on once-forested grazing lands,...
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Bolivia: El Alto, city of rural migrants whose crops failed when the climate changed
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 12th, 2011
Guardian: Poor El Alto is the satellite city of rich La Paz, overlooking the capital of Bolivia from up in the altiplano. In 1952 it was little more than a village; in 1960 it had fewer than 30,000 people; now it has exploded into a metropolis with up to 1 million or more living in the rarified, 4,100m (13,000ft) air. It's remarkable because this is one of the few cities in the world where the poor live physically above the rich, and where the vast majority are indigenous – from just one of the country's many...