biodiversity News

Though they have survived fires, insect outbreaks and logging, the forests of Europe may now face their biggest challenge ever: climate change.

Shade-grown coffee is coffee grown under a forest canopy, an ecologically-sustainable practice. The term "shade-grown" for use with tea refers to a very different practice, which is not any more sustainable than conventional tea production.

Wildlife Sightings (www.junponline.com) is proud to announce new wildlife survey data management services for conservation organizations and individuals. No more technical and time consuming barriers to managing and publishing your wildlife surveys.

"A Table from The Sea's Edge" ; the extraordinary story of its creation, travels World Summits from Nagoya to Davos, its current sale to find a new sponsor to support the story it tells and its call to us all for Sustainability and Biodiversity.

Scientist Asks: Is It Too Late to Save the Planet?

Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World, a botanical art exhibition by the American Society of Botanical Artists opens June 25th in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, UK. as part of Plants in Peril.

In the international arena, India today which has emerged as a decisive environmental, social, economic and political power is befittingly the first time global host of World Environment Day 2011 with theme – Forests: Nature at Your Service.

WillaKenzie Estate has partnered with Cork Forest Conservation Alliance to become a hub for cork recycling in the Willamette Valley.

From bats and badgers to butterflies and birds – 'wildlife walk' n' talks' are to become part of Thames Water field staff's on-the-job training.

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Die “Business and Biodiversity” Kampagne, will das Biodiversitäts-Engagement von Unternehmen fördern. ForestFinance wurde nun als eines von bislang nur 19 Unternehmen in die "Business & Biodiversity-“Community” aufgenommen

A vibrant new marketplace and online community for seed swapping, posting articles and finding open-pollinated seeds.

Brazil National Biodiversity Mainstreaming and Institutional Consolidation Project (P094715) will be aiming towards the promotion of biodiversity and institutional consolidation on a nationwide level.

A year-long bird survey of Phillips Park in Newark, Delaware, conducted by Alex Zorach and others, has concluded, with 97 bird species recorded. The survey also uncovered environmental concerns in the park, including oil and sewage in a creek.

Green Party activists and conservationists will protest the destruction of ancient trees in Green Park today.

The discovery of a rare bat species in a tiny fragment of rainforest surrounded by an oil palm plantation has demonstrated that even small areas of forest are worth saving.

A children’s book for politicians will provide a stark warning to the world’s governments of the depleted natural legacy that they stand to leave behind if they fail to halt biodiversity loss.

'Living On A Planet', Michel Montecrossa's great wildlife and biodiversity song-movie is released by Mira Sound Germany and Filmaur Multimedia on DVD.

This extraordinary alliance of indigenous female elders from all over the world will be making an historic trip to Japan. Stewardship of the Earth, appeals for peace and establishing relations with Japan’s Indigenous are at the top of their agenda.

Tourism organisations around the world have begun gearing up for the celebration of World Tourism Day, taking place on 27 September 2010, with this year’s theme being Tourism and Biodiversity*.

Authorities in Khammouane Province, Laos, have pledged to increase protection of fish stocks in the Nakai Reservoir in order to boost long-term livelihoods and conservation in the area.

Parks need urgent support to halt loss of key specie AFRICAN national parks like the Masai Mara and the Serengeti have seen populations of large mammals decline by up to 59 per cent, according to a study published in Biological Conservation.

SuperGeo establishes Biodiversity Geographic Information System that enables users to query, display, share, and manage various wild life data. The system can achieve the goal of central management, distributed applications, and data sharing.

The Municipality of Dumaran in northern Palawan will be holding its 7th Kalabukay Festival on the 15th to 18th of June while the Municipality of Narra in southern Palawan gears up for its 4th Katala Festival on 19-22 June.

Starting from 1972, 5th June is celebrated globally every year as the World Environment Day (WED). United Nations (UN) through this day, stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

Did you know that a single tree in your garden can attract up to 450 species of wildlife?

The Lao government takes over the activities of the Nakai Elephant Programme, supported by the Nam Theun 2 Power Company.

National tree-planting charity renovates borders and plants trees on south London estate

8ft anacondas, jaguars, tapirs and the world’s largest bird of prey are some of the species that have proven to be worth more than their weight in gold.

- COP10.org targets UN COP10 biodiversity treaty talks in Nagoya, decries corporate co-optation, and invites collaborative NGO strategies

Reef Relief Founders Craig and DeeVon Quirolo launch new Online Resources on Coral Reefs with new a website, Youtube videos, an online coral survey archive and more...

Gland, Switzerland, 3 November, 2009 (IUCN) – The latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ shows that 17,291 species out of the 47,677 assessed species are threatened with extinction.

How air pollution effects the terrestrial ecosystem, marine ecosystem, forest ecosystem, and aquatic ecosystems. Air pollution facts about air pollution causes. How air pollution effects biodiversity and soil conservation.

We are very proud of our association with Dr. Ostrom and her orthodoxy-shattering work demonstrating that communities can democratically govern themselves to preserve the environment. See: www.thesolutionsjournal.org

Children and schools on Laos's Nakai Plateau receive prizes from the Nam Theun 2 Power Company for artwork celebrating World Environment Day. NTPC is committed to preserving the unique biodiversity of the area and to educating children on Nakai.

Goals set to alleviate extreme poverty will not be met unless we address the accelerating rate of biodiversity loss, warn leading scientists in a paper published in Science today.

The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy’s 27th Annual Conference Seeks to Put Rare Breeds Back on the Table

Calling all professional, amateur and student photographers! The ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) is now accepting entries to the First ASEAN-wide photo contest “Zooming in on Biodiversity”.

Fish stocks in the Nakai Reservoir in Khammouane province, Laos, received a boost on July 22 2009, when district authorities and the Nam Theun 2 Power Company (NTPC) released more than 30,000 native fingerlings.

A new study published in this week's Nature magazine demonstrates that diverse species can arise just from the arrangement of organisms across an area, without influence from geographical barriers, or even natural selection.

Cocos Island Costa Rica, boasts an incredible diversity of plant and animal life, the best diving in the world and buried pirate treasure!

An innovative concept that tackles deforestation in the tropics, climate change, energy poverty and food insecurity is awarded 300000 euros by the Congo Basin Forest Fund.

Rainforest Aid 2009, a three-day live music festival is set to rock the rain forest June 19 to 21 to raise money for protection of the Osa Peninsula’s renowned biodiversity.

A truly integrated holistic approach to the environment and the country’s economic development is what sets Costa Rica, the principal emerging economy in Central America, apart from every other country worldwide.

At www.ConserveOnline.org, The Nature Conservancy has launched a complete overhaul of the free online tools supporting knowledge-flow and coordination between environment and conservation efforts around the world. Launch Date: May 5, 2008

The link between biodiversity and climate change is not one-way: just as climate change alters the state of biodiversity, so can changes in biodiversity affect the world’s climate. This is the concern put into the limelight by this conference.

Birthdays of Journal of Economic Entomology and Annals of the ESA to be celebrated at ESA Annual Meeting