<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c5433db0-bfd4-46d4-b0f4-62500fbd3607/6FCAC8FB-E65D-4FE9-B77D-73731C53A60D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19225813.000&feedId=online-news_rss20" href="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19225813.000&feedId=online-news_rss20" style="font-size: 11px;">environment.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19225813.000&feedId=online-news_rss20"><H1 class="inline">Enormous rainforest protection scheme completed</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19225813.000&feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>The Guyana shield has been forged. That's the name given to the largest uninterrupted stretch of protected rainforest anywhere on Earth and it was completed on Monday when the governor of the Brazilian state of Pará announced, after six years of discussions, legal protection for 15 million hectares of Amazonian rainforest. "This is one of the major conservation announcements of recent decades," said José Maria Cardoso da Silva, of the Brazilian arm of the not-for-profit Conservation International.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19225813.000&feedId=online-news_rss20"><P>The seven newly protected zones include two which together support 54 per cent of all Amazonian animal and plant species. They are flanked by pre-existing conservation areas in neighbouring countries Guyana to the north-west and French Guiana to the north-east.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19225813.000&feedId=online-news_rss20"><QUOTETEXT _moz-userdefined="">The protected zones support 54 per cent of all Amazonian animal and plant species</QUOTETEXT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6FCAC8FB-E65D-4FE9-B77D-73731C53A60D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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