Singapore Index on Biodiversity
November 2nd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Caitlin Hill in Conservation
A new tool for cities to measure biodiversity was formally endorsed last week at the Convention on Biological Diversity at Nagoya, Japan, reports Channel News Asia.
Called the Singapore Index, the tool uses a report card type of scoring system that cities can use to carry out their own assessment. The assessment includ...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, Index, Nagoya, native, Singapore
November 1st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
The recent Convention on Biological Diversity closed in Nagoya on Friday with the delegates agreeing to three targets: adoption of a new 10 year strategic plan...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, convention, deforestation, Nagoya, targets
October 26th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Having achieved a few things such as 13 scientific research expeditions to Antarctica since 1981 to study the ozone layer and related phenomena, India has show...
Tags: artists, Conservation, India, science, scientific, tigers
October 24th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
National Geographic has a video on YouTube showing how a conservation group (the Wildlife Conservation Society in this case) can turn poachers into people wh...
Tags: Conservation, National Geographic, poachers, YouTube
October 21st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
The two-week UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference is underway in Nagoya Japan, with delegates from over 190 countries trying to agree to 20...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, ecosystem, Nagoya, UN
State of UK Birds
October 20th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A coalition of UK conservation organizations has published a report on the successes and lack therein of the birds in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan. In 1994, the UK government identified 26 species of bird most in need of conservation, and started on...
Tags: biodiversity, birds, Conservation, invasive, UK
Conservation Management
October 20th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
In an essay in Conservation Biology, two University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology have put forward a business management framework to help NGO’s manage their programs.
Using a management framework similar to that used b...
Tags: business, Conservation, goal, management, NGO, University of Kent
Costa Rican Conservation
October 19th, 2010 by Caitlin Hill in Conservation
Good news came recently from Costa Rica with the announcement that the nation is set to become the first of the developing countries to meet United Nations goals in environmental protection laid out in the U.N. Convention on Biodiversity! To help fu...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, Costa Rica, marine, rainforest, U.S., United Nations
National Conservation Lands
October 10th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A great video “marking 10 years since the establishment of America’s Conservation Lands – 27 million acres of the American Wild West” is on Mother Nature Network’s website. These are conservation lands that have been saved for cultural, ecolo...
Tags: Clinton, Conservation, lands, Mother Nature's Network, video
40 Birds in Need
October 5th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has publicized a list of the 100 UK birds that most need conservation help, of which 40 need immediate action (over the next 5 to 8 years).
10 species, including kestrel, cuckoo and swift, need ...
Hudson Valley
September 27th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative continued throughout August, with senior representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Department of the Interior travelling across America an...
European Alien Invasion
September 23rd, 2010 by Alison Wheatley and Caitlin Hill in Conservation
Recently, invasive species experts have insisted Europe-wide legislation be established to protect indigenous species from the invaders, reports the BBC. Researchers advise installing legislation as soon as next year, to try to decrease the 12 billion e...
Tags: BBC, brown rats, Canada Goose, DAISIE, Europe, invasive, legislation, muskrat, ruddy duck, sika deer, species
Conservation Leadership Program
September 5th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A conservation activity for Labor Day, the annual holiday that celebrates the economic and social achievements of workers, might be to watch a video about a program such as Birdlife International’s Conservation Leadership Program.
For 25 years, ...
Europe’s Coastal Ecosystems
September 1st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Europe’s coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressures including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of fish stocks, reports the European Environment Agency. Such ecosystems are important for wildlife, the economy and human health. Conservation is needed.
The EEA h...
Seabird Conference
August 26th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
More than 800 participants including world experts on penguins, puffins and albatrosses will be meeting in Victoria, BC, from September 7 to 11th as part of the 1st World Seabird Conference, Bird Studies Canada told me yesterday. Assembling to review ...
Tags: bird, conference, Conservation, ecosystem, environment, invasive, marine, Migration, oil spill, seabird
