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	<title>Dispatches From The Vanishing World</title>
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		<title>Great News for the Forest Elephants in Dzanga-Sanga National Park</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4426</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andrea turkalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central african republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dzanga-Sangha National Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gabon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Fay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following release has come from the Wildlife Conservation Society. I hope security has returned to the bai. Michael Fay, who brokered the agreement between the Central African Republic and Gabon that will allow Gabonese soldiers to help safeguard the &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4426">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>sickening news for forest elephants</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4421</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[african elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andrea turkalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central african republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dzanga bai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory poaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory trade]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[got this from Melissa Groo, who does Save the Elephants&#8217; daily roundup of new stories about elephants around the world. Melissa (who is also a phenomenal bird photographer. we spent the last week of March on the Platte River in &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4421">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>curing nature deficit disorder</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4415</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural deficit disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[zoe foster]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story by my kid sister Tonia Shoumatoff Foster about her daughter Zoe, who is a teacher in Maine and is taking her kids out into the natural world, which any child, given the exposure to it, eats &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4415">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>video of &#8220;the great estates of northern westchester</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4405</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alex shoumatoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great estates of northern westchester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[henry wallace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[j.m. kaplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leon levy environmental symposium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leon levy reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lewisboro new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[south salem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[westchester land trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[and their contribution to conservation, the talk I gave at the Waccabuc Country Club in South Salem, New York. http://www.youtube.com/embed/u0g0UlkBFFQ?rel=0&#38;autoplay=1 the text is posted as Dispatch #82 &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>louise silberling&#8217;s photoessay on the Waterfalls of Ithaca</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4403</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4403#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[amazon rubber tappers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extractive reserve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ithaca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[louise silberling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quilombos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reserva estrativista]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waterfalls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is Louise Silberling&#8217;s second contribution to DVW. She is an Ithaca, NY-based writer, editor, and sociologist.  She has worked in the U.S. and abroad with rural communities seeking to improve their environments and to secure land rights. In Brazil &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4403">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>#84 : The Waterfalls of Ithaca, New York, by Louise Silberling</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4399</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carl sagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fracking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ithaca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[louise silberling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[waterfalls]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Silberling waterfalls essay with photos in text]]></description>
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		<title>the battle for the elephants is raging</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4394</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CITES Bangkok meeting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elephants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory africa china thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ivory poaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Milliken]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[last year more elephants were killed than in 2011, which was when my piece, &#8220;Agony and Ivory,&#8221; came out in Vanity Fair, and 2011 was the worst year in twenty years, when the last, Japan-consumer-driven pogrom on pachyderms took place. &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4394">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>join us in borneo</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4389</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[borneo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FICTION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lectures and appearances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[writers who want to hone your chops for writing about and for the world, the Abroad Writers&#8217; Conference is having a session in Sarawak, North Borneo, in June, in which anthropologist Gerrell Drawhorn, a veteran investigator of Borneo&#8217;s incredible biocultural &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4389">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The monarchs are in serious decline</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4387</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DISPATCH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butterfies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homer aridjis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lincoln brower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michoacan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monarch butterflies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[see this distressing article by the Mexican poet and long-time champion of the butterflies Homer Aridjis  and Lincoln Brower, whose race to find the winter hibernaculum of the monarchs in Mexico I wrote about in Vanity Fair in 1999 (it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4387">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>#81 : Alberta&#8217;s Nefarious Tar Sands1</title>
		<link>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4376</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4376#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Shoumatoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BLOG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[athatabasca river]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bitumen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chipweyan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. John O'Connor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fort macmurray]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy crude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lake athabasca]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil sands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tar sands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alberta&#8217;s Nefarious Tar Sands After I got arrested in Bohemian Grove (all for a good cause : the piece I wrote for Vanity Fair&#8211; see Dispatch #57, “Bohemian Tragedy”&#8211; helped stopped the Bohemian Grove Club&#8217;s clandestine logging of its magnificent &#8230; <a href="http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=4376">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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