Conservationists Working Together

Government officials, national and international NGOs, and academic researchers have banded together in an effort to save the endangered Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee. According to Conversation International, this International Union for Conservation of Nature(TM)-backed conservation plan is the first endorsed by the governments from these nations. “Both our governments recogni...

Soya

In the last 15 years, production of soya has doubled, driven largely by the rising consumption of meat, as well as for use in food, biofuel and other pr...

$39 Million for Conservation

As part of their effort to address conservation threats to habitats in Asia and stop the illegal wildlife trade of species such as tiger, snow leopard, rh...

Sustainable Forests

We all depend on forests. In addition to providing us with oxygen while absorbing carbon from the air, their dense vegetation and biodiversity also gi...

Backyard Wildlife Reserve

If you’d like to take a course in Wildlife Conservation 101, check out the National Wildlife Federation’s website section called Understanding Wildlife Conservation. It’s divided into sections with titles such as Biodiversity, the End...

Yesterday’s Zoo

There’s a poignantly charming animated short film on You Tube that features extinct animals from Yesterday’s Zoo.  Apparently it was used as an example of biodiversity loss at the Wildlife Conservation Network’s Wildlife Expo in O...

Mapping Population and Ecosystems

Rural populations in developing countries are rapidly increasing, threatening many of the planet’s highest biodiversity regions, reports a new study by WWF called Mapping Population onto Priority Conservation Areas. The Priority Conservation Areas i...

Conservation Stories of 2010

We hope you had a healthy and enjoyable holiday season. Before we move on, let’s take a quick look back at 2010, labeled the International Year of Biodiversity. The year had both good and bad conservation stories, according to a photo feature in th...

Birds Australia

Birds Australia published its annual State of Australia’s Birds report Monday, writes Birdlife International.  Over 8,300 islands occur within Birds Australia’s jurisdiction, and island birds are sensitive due to their restricted range and factors such as ...

Biodiversity and Business

While businesses are important actors in the protection of biodiversity, they were not included in the COP 10 Convention on Biological Diversity, reports the Guardian. Under the current framework, there is no defined role for businesses in discussing and creating international polici...

Biodiversity Boost

Among the positive outcomes of the recent Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, was that over 15 protected areas of our world are to receive US $6.8 million for conservation. These biodiversity areas include one with monk seals off Mauri...

Singapore Index on Biodiversity

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 u...

Biodiversity 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 for biodiversity conservation, a resource mobilization strategy, and a new international p...

Extinction Crisis

A study just publicized by the IUCN confirms that there is a current global extinction crisis with one-fifth of our world’s vertebrate (backboned) animal species threatened. The study used data for 25,000 species from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Spe...

UN Convention on Biological Diversity

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 measurable conservation targets for the next decade. They’re trying to tackle some of our world’s hu...