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	<title>Coastal Care &#187; Sand Mining</title>
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	<description>The mission of the Santa Aguila Foundation is to raise awareness of and mobilize people against the ongoing decimation of coastlines around the world.</description>
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		<title>India’s Illegal Sand Mining Fuels Boom, Ravages Rivers</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/05/indias-illegal-sand-mining-fuels-boom-ravages-rivers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sand-mining frenzy, as it is happening right now in western India,  illustrates one of the most important questions India faces in its march to become a 21st-century economic powerhouse: Can this nation of 1.2 billion people pursue economic growth without destroying its environment?]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Asked to Halt Black Sand Mining, Philippines</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/05/supreme-court-asked-to-halt-black-sand-mining-philippines/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/05/supreme-court-asked-to-halt-black-sand-mining-philippines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 21:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To prevent further destruction of the coastline, public officials and concerned citizens filed with the Supreme Court to issue a writ against a mining project to extract black sand.]]></description>
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		<title>Former Sand Mining Site Being Considered for up to 2000 Homes, New South Wales</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/former-sand-mining-site-being-considered-for-up-to-2000-homes-new-south-wales/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/former-sand-mining-site-being-considered-for-up-to-2000-homes-new-south-wales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kurnell  sand dune system is estimated to be about 15,000 years old, and sand mining on the Kurnell peninsula has depleted the area of much of the sand that was originally there. A former mining site, is now considered for housing up to 2000 homes.. a disaster in waiting environmentalists said.]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper Editor Charged For Sand Mining</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/newspaper-editor-charged-for-sand-mining/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/newspaper-editor-charged-for-sand-mining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Grenadian Newspaper editor, who has used his newspaper to expose what he sees as corruption in Grenada, has been arrested and charged for illegally extracting sand from the beaches...]]></description>
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		<title>Lagos ready to battle illegal sand miners, Nigeria</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/lagos-ready-to-battle-illegal-sand-miners-nigeria/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/lagos-ready-to-battle-illegal-sand-miners-nigeria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said the government had no choice but to wage “serious war” against illegal sand miners in the state.]]></description>
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		<title>Sand Mining Throughout Coastal Liberia</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/sand-mining-throughout-coastal-liberia/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/sand-mining-throughout-coastal-liberia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The city of Buchanan, Liberia, is gradually being swept away by sea erosion. But there is an even more serious matter - an impending environmental danger- that should claim the urgent attention of the government.  It is the issue of sand mining in Monrovia and its environs.]]></description>
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		<title>Council Votes To End Sand Mining, Barbuda</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/council-votes-to-end-sand-mining-barbuda/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/04/council-votes-to-end-sand-mining-barbuda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Barbuda Council has voted to end beach sand mining, bowing to pressure from within its ranks and environmentalists, after several reports indicated that the operation posed serious health and safety risks.]]></description>
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		<title>Land Lost to Sand Dredging</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/land-lost-to-sand-dredging/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/land-lost-to-sand-dredging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cambodia has struggled with the environmental cost of sand mining from its rivers, and villagers who live along the banks of the Mekong River say that the land on which their houses are built is collapsing into the river because of the dredging.]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Dredging Causes Major Problems, Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/illegal-dredging-causes-major-problems-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/illegal-dredging-causes-major-problems-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unchecked and illegal sand dredging have been attributed to severe landslide that washed away houses into the Dong Nai River, in the South Central Coastal region of Vietnam.]]></description>
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		<title>Barbuda Sandmining Nears Disaster Levels</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/barbuda-sandmining-nears-disaster-levels/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/barbuda-sandmining-nears-disaster-levels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been renewed calls for an end to sand mining operations in Barbuda, as this activity has reached a stage that could spell an environmental disaster for Barbuda island..]]></description>
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		<title>Dubai&#8217;s Staggering Growth</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/dubais-staggering-growth-a-nasa-video/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/dubais-staggering-growth-a-nasa-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To expand the possibilities for beachfront development, Dubai undertook a massive and controversial engineering project to create hundreds of artificial islands along its Persian Gulf coastline. Built from sand dredged from the sea floor, the islands are shaped in recognizable forms such as palm trees. The construction of the various islands off the coast of Dubai has resulted in changes in area wildlife, coastal erosion and alongshore sediment transport, and wave patterns. 
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		<title>Some Relief for the Reef</title>
		<link>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/some-relief-for-the-reef/</link>
		<comments>http://coastalcare.org/2012/03/some-relief-for-the-reef/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Coastal Care</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[United Nations experts will be presented with a petition that has more than 100,000 signatures on it, calling for an end to dredging and development near the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland.]]></description>
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