“General Motors Corp…will donate $10 million to restore

and protect an endangered tract of Atlantic Coast rain

forest in Brazil, an environmental group said

yesterday.” It would be likely GM would receive ‘pollution credits’, in any future Kyoto-like international agreement, for the role such a forest preserve can play in buffering against global climate change. Planet Ark And “Shell renewed a pledge Thursday to stay

away from Bangladeshi forests inhabited by the endangered Royal Bengal

tiger in the face of protests from environmentalists at the oil company’s

annual meeting.” CNN