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		<title>Crontollership Court criticizes Minaet for poor management of The Leatherback National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read &#8211; Crontollership Court criticizes Minaet for poor of The Leatherback National Park (Spanish version only)
Article publish on Friday 5, 2010 by La Nación, a major newpaper in Costa Rica.
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		<title>Costa Rican Court critizes poor performance of Ministry of Environment regarding Las Baulas National Park.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(March 8, 2010 – San José, Costa Rica).
The Comptrollership Court of Costa Rica criticized the poor performance of the Ministry of Environment (MINAET), regarding the process to consolidate Las Baulas National Park, through a report issue last February 26 (DFOE-PGAA-IF-3-2010).  For the Comptrollership, this matter is of great importance, due to the importance of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rica will support international protection for hammerhead sharks at CITES</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(March 18, 2010 – San José, Costa Rica)
Las March 4, the Ministry of Environment of Costa Rica announced during a press conference that the country would support a proposal to list hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini) under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).  The proposal, which would allow for controls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Randall Arauz and Dr. Wallace J. Nichols Join Turtle Island Restoration Network Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release: February 23, 2010
Contact: Todd Steiner or Erica Heimberg, Turtle Island Restoration Network, 415-663-8590, ext. 103 or 105 cell  415-419-6675
Prominent Sea Turtle Biologists Randall Arauz of Costa Rica and Dr. Wallace J. Nichols of Davenport, CA, Join Turtle Island Restoration Network Board
Olema, CA.  Turtle Island Restoration Network announced this week that Randall Arauz, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists celebrate Shark Finning Birthday in front of the Costa Rican Supreme Court of Justice.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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Last Wednesday February 17, over 100 activists sang “Happy Birthday” to the Judges of Costa Rica’s Supreme Court of Justice, to celebrate the 3rd year of waiting for a resolution that could finally put an end to shark finning in Costa Rica.
Since January of 2006, the Constitutional Court of the Supreme Court of Justice, ruled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leatherback Survival Concert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the video from the Leatherback Survival Concert, an initiative to save the leatherback sea turtle and  Costa Rica&#8217;s National Parks on December 14 in San José.


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		<title>This week in Pretoma news (Dec. 5th)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal Hawksbill Sea Turtle Jewelry Confiscated at Christmas Fair
Officials from the Ministry of the Environment and Telecommunications (MINAET), along with representatives from Costa Rican NGOs Pretoma, the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, and Widecast, confiscated illegal jewelry made from endangered hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) shells for sale at the Christmas festival in Guadalupe.  MINAET officials in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National University does not support degredation of Leatherback Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Costa Rica&#8217;s National University (UNA) has been forceful in expressing its firm rejection of bill 17.383 that would downgrade Leatherback National Park to a mixed wildlife refuge.
The document SCU-2165-2009, signed by the university&#8217;s board of directors and submitted to the Legislative Assembly, recomends the bill be rejected on the grounds that the proposed changes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golfo Dulce Artisanal Fishermen Demand Incopesca Uphold Their Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Current policies designed to cater to foreign sport fishing interests, say artisanal fishermen
After being stood-up for the second time by officials of the Costa Rican Fisheries and Aquaculture Institute, 125 artisanal fishermen of the Golfo Dulce decided to take matters into their own hands yesterday and held a peaceful protest at Incopesca&#8217;s office in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veronica Dabul Wins Shark Conservation Poker Tournament</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(November 24, 2009 &#8211; San José, Costa Rica)
Veronica Dabul of Argentina has won the innagural &#8220;Shark Hunt&#8221; charity poker tournament held at the Paradisus Resort in Playa Conchal Costa Rica.  The tournament raised over $38,000 towards shark conservation efforts in Costa Rica, as well as opened the eyes of its 161 registered players to [...]]]></description>
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