Saturday, May 19th, 2012
A group of European experts on biodiversity will gather from the 21th to the 23rd May 2012 in Brussels in order to further improve the transfer of biodiversity knowledge from the scientific community into the policy sphere. These experts will take part in a project funded by the European Commission: “BiodiversityKnowledge.”
Friday, May 18th, 2012
New Zealand is the first country in the world to catalogue its entire known living and fossil life. The third and final book in the series New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity, edited by NIWA’s Dr Dennis Gordon, published by Canterbury University Press, will be launched this week at Te Papa in Wellington. This 1758 page
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
We may not recognize it, but virtually every decision we make comes with a price to our planet—a small, but not insignificant, withdrawal of the earth’s resources. Added together, these withdrawals represent our environmental footprint. WWF’s 2012 Living Planet Report highlights the cumulative pressure we are putting on the planet and the resulting decline in
Sunday, May 13th, 2012
The progressive disappearance of seed-dispersing animals like elephants and rhinoceroses is putting the structural integrity and biodiversity of the tropical forest of South-East Asia at risk, researchers have warned. “Megaherbivores act as the ‘gardeners’ of humid tropical forests: They are vital to forest regeneration and maintain its structure and biodiversity,” Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, the lead author
Friday, May 11th, 2012
In the 1990s, the London-based Forum for the Future developed the idea of the “five types of sustainable capital from where we derive the goods and services we need to improve the quality of our lives.” Today, a group of financial capitalists are making a fresh commitment to Natural Capital. So far 20 financial institutions
Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Governments from more than 90 countries have agreed to establish an independent panel of scientists to assess the very latest research on the state of the planet’s fragile ecosystems. The decision, which will create a body akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was made in Panama City this weekend, after years of
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
We are pleased to launch the Biodiversity & REDD+ Platform, a partnership between Forest Carbon Asia and SNV Netherlands Development Organization with funding support from the International Climate Initiative of the German Ministry for the Environment (BMU). This platform is dedicated to bringing you comprehensive reviews and latest updates on REDD+ biodiversity-related issues, and links
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
With its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo Basin forest is the world’s second largest tropical forest. The ‘State of the Congo Basin Forests 2010’ report launched in Douala, Cameroon, at the Annual meeting of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), provides a comprehensive and
Monday, January 30th, 2012
“Conserving the planet’s species and habitats is central to sustainable developmentyet the global decline in biodiversity is accelerating,” says UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon. “The United Nations decade on biodiversity is an opportunity to reverse this trend, under the theme living in harmony with nature.” From 6-9 March 2012, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Governments of
