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		<title>Farmed Salmon Exposed &#8211; The global reach of the Norwegian salmon farming industry</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/farmed-salmon-exposed-the-global-reach-of-the-norwegian-salmon-farming-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends at the  Pure Salmon Campaign have launched a new video highlighting the Norwegian Government&#8217;s exploitation of salmon in British Columbia.  The launch coincides with campaign events around the 2010 Winter Olympics in  Vancouver, BC,  Canada – where we are be on  the ground to highlight the environmental problems of Norwegian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharks in Hainan, China</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/sharks-in-hainan-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Posted by Cheng Shuling, Program Officer for Dalian Environmental Resources Center (DERC) 
Before my trip to Hainan, the most southern province of China, where I was assigned to investigate the shark fin trade, I knew very little about the meaning behind the words “shark fin” and “shark”. I had never seen a  shark fin before, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sacred Land Of Altai, Russia</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/the-sacred-land-of-altai-russia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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posted by Galina Angarova
My colleague Evan Sparling and I recently traveled to Altai to touch base with our partners in the field, meet with regional stakeholders, and participate in a conference on sacred sites organized by one of our partners – the Foundation for Sustainable Development of Altai. As I have now fully transitioned into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evil Fin Trade is Gnawing the Shark</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/the-evil-fin-trade-is-gnawing-the-shark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In restaurants, there are good-looking photographs of the shark fin custard and waiters who talk about how delicious and nutritional the shark fin is, such as at the Beishicheng Abalones and Fins Restaurant, the Bao Tai Long Seafood, the Min Dao Seafood and so on. But for them, there is no room to point out the ecological value of sharks or their future. ]]></description>
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		<title>Russia is Illuminated</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/02/russia-is-illuminated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Evan Sparling

My recent trip to Altai is proof that life imitates art. Just a few days before leaving the US I watched the film “Everything is Illuminated.” Even if you’ve never seen it, you know the plot: a mismatched cast of characters (an octogenarian Ukrainian anti-Semite, his hip-hop obsessed playboy grandson, a shy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 3 Final Report: We Cannot Undermine the Importance of NGOs in China</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/01/final-report-we-cannot-undermine-the-importance-of-ngos-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/01/final-report-we-cannot-undermine-the-importance-of-ngos-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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posted by Wen Bo, China Program Co-Director, Pacific Environment
The third and final day of the conference was titled &#8220;Pondering Gaps and Needs of Stakeholders in Taihu  Basin. How to Build New Clean Water Networks?&#8221;
Jun Bi, the local organizer from Nanjing University was the first to speak. In his presentation, he noted that NGOs in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2 Report from Nanjing &#8211; NGOs Dive Into Water Work</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/01/day-2-report-from-nanjing-ngos-dive-into-water-work/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/01/day-2-report-from-nanjing-ngos-dive-into-water-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Posted by Wen Bo
On the first night during the conference I saw a CCTV- 2 documentary film on water pollution in China. When I turned it on, it was presenting on Lake  Tai pollution. Then the program reported more about a series of other toxic pollution problems. Ma Jun, founder and director of Institute for Public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 1 Report from Taihu Lake, Nanjing, China Water Pollution Conference</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/01/day-1-report-from-taihu-lake-nanjing-china-water-pollution-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2010/01/day-1-report-from-taihu-lake-nanjing-china-water-pollution-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Posted by Wen Bo
This week, I attended a conference in Nanjing, China on Taihu Lake water pollution. The event was organized by the Woodrow Wilson Center, Japanese Institute of Developing Economics (IDE-JETRO) and Nanjing University.
Several of my colleagues from partner organizations based in China were there as well as several from U.S. based organizations, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COP15: Reflections on Copenhagen Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2009/12/reflections-on-copenhagen-negotiations/</link>
		<comments>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2009/12/reflections-on-copenhagen-negotiations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by David Gordon
The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of impressions for anyone who cares about the global climate.  As we post this blog, we still do not know the outcomes of the Copenhagen negotiations.  Will countries come to agreement on anything that can move forward?  Will that agreement be fair, ambitious, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Determination in the heart of the Russian Far East</title>
		<link>http://pacificenvironment.org/blog/2009/12/determination-in-the-heart-of-the-russian-far-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Evan Sparling
Last Sunday, the penultimate of our ten days in Kamchatka, was ostensibly a rest day. Everyone was eager to relax and enjoy the glorious surroundings that we had spent the last week helping to preserve in countless meetings, seminars, and strategy sessions. We initially planned to spend the entire day traversing a [...]]]></description>
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