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- Red alert over rare species
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NewScientist.com reports on January 3, 2003 that the well-known "Red List" that details which species are threatened with extinction is inaccurate, according to a new assessment. It concludes the list fails to reflect the true threat to species, by not taking full account of the threat posed by people.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993265
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- Road and dam building 'threaten Indian fish supplies'
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Scientists have warned that development projects in the northeast of India are degrading rivers and putting fish populations at risk of extinction. (Linda Chhakchhuak, SciDev.Net, 17 May 2006)
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2843&language=1
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- Sanctuary Asia
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Sanctuary Asia, India's leading wildlife, conservation and environment magazine, was started by editor Bittu Sahgal in 1981 to raise awareness among Indians of their disappearing natural heritage. The overwhelming response to the magazine led to the birth of Sanctuary Cub, a children's nature magazine, in 1984 and to The Ecologist Asia (Indian edition of The Ecologist, UK) a journal dedicated to the issues of the environment, development and human rights, in 1993.
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- Thailand gets tough on wildlife traffickers
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The Observer, Nick Cumming-Bruce in Bangkok, Sunday November 30, 2003. Piles of fresh tiger meat alongside the paws of slaughtered bears found by Thai police during a raid on a suburban Bangkok home have turned the spotlight on Thailand's pivotal role in Asia's huge, lucrative and cruel trade in exotic, often endangered animals.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1096294,00.html
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- The Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN) Learning Materials
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The Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN), a component of the Biodiversity Support Program (BSP), is an innovative USAID-funded program in the Asia/Pacific Region to provide grants for community-based enterprises that directly depend on biodiversity. BCN has two goals: 1) promoting community-based conservation and 2) testing the hypothesis that if local communities receive sufficient benefits from a biodiversity-linked enterprise, then they will act to conserve it. Although concluding in 1999, learning materials from the BCN provide an excellent resource.
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- The Convention on Biological Diversity
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The Convention on Biological Diversity is the first global agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. The Convention has three main goals: The conservation of biodiversity; sustainable use of the components of biodiversity; and sharing the benefits arising from the commercial and other utilization of genetic resources in a fair and equitable way. This site provides information, resources and news on biodiversity issues.
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- The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
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CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.
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- The Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF)
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The Global Biodiversity Forum (GBF) was founded in 1993 by IUCN, WRI, UNEP, and ACTS and includes a number of other institutions as its convenors. It is an open and independent mechanism to encourage analysis, dialogue and partnership on key ecological, economic, social and institutional issues related to biodiversity. It contributes to the further development and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Ramsar Convention, the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification and other biodiversity-related conventions at the local, national, regional and international levels.
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- The Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network
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The Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) network's website is a portal for information on community-based marine conservation and its practitioners. The Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) Network is a group of projects and practitioners who have joined together to learn collectively and improve the success of their conservation efforts. To do this, the LMMA Network provides guidance and capacity building to members on Adaptive Management in the areas of Project Design, Management, Monitoring, Analysis and Communication. This allows projects to learn more about their progress and increase the impact of their actions. The Network is made up of: * Community members * Traditional leaders * Conservation staff * Academics and researchers * Donors * Decision-makers These members span the people and cultures of Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and the Americas. Through The Network, community learning and results are shared across a global audience.
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- The major importance of minor resources : women and plant biodiversity
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Exposing gender biases in environmental planning. Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods Programme, IIED (2003). By P. Howard. This paper describes how women predominate in plant biodiversity management in their roles as housewives, plant gatherers, home gardeners, herbalists, seed custodians and informal plant breeders. It argues, however, that because most plant use, management and conservation occurs within the domestic realm, and because the principal values of plant genetic resources are localised and non-monetary, women are largely invisible to outsiders and are easily undervalued despite this predomination.
http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC14934.htm
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- The Nilgiri Tahr Foundation
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Nilgiri Tahr Foundation with Head Quarters at Kochi - Kerala -India has been launched with the idea of monitoring and conducting field studies on Ecology and behaviour of this highly endangered animal. The foundation plans to work in close co-operation and coordination with the forest and wildlife department of Kerala and Tamilnadu and other interested research institutions like wildlife Institute of India Dehradun (W.I.I.) and Kerala Forest Research Institute (K.F.R.L).
http://www.tahrfoundation.org/
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- The Pacific Islands Roundtable for Nature Conservation
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The Roundtable for Nature Conservation is the largest cross-sectoral coalition of donors, NGOs, regional organisations and national governments working in nature conservation in the Pacific
http://www.sprep.org/Roundtable/
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- The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture and Community (HTML)
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It introduces the protected landscape approach and demonstrate its relevance to the conservation challenges facing protected areas. While it draws especially from experience with IUCN Category V protected areas and the World Heritage Cultural Landscape designation, the protected landscape approach is broader than single protected area category or designation. Examples are chosen from around the world that illustrate how the protected landscape approach works in diverse settings. The experience presented here demonstrates the values and benefits of the protected landscape approach, and points the way toward meeting future challenges. (Ed. Jessica Brown, Nora Mitchell and Michael Beresford, IUCN, 2005)
http://www.iucn.org/bookstore/HTML-books/PA-protected-landscape-approach/cover.html
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- The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP)
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The Sea Turtle Restoration Project (STRP) fights to protect endangered sea turtle populations in ways that meet the ecological needs of the sea turtles and the oceans and the needs of the local communities who share the beaches and waters with these gentle creatures.
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- UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
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The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information for policy and action to conserve the living world. The Centre's activities include assessment and early warning studies in forest, dryland, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Research on endangered species and biodiversity indicators provide policy-makers with vital knowledge on global trends in conservation and sustainable use of wildlife and their habitats. Extensive use is made of geographic information systems and other analytical technologies that help to visualise trends, patterns and emerging priorities for conservation action.
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- UNEP-GEF Project on Development of National Biosafety Frameworks: A Biosafety Framework Development
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(2002) The aim of this toolkit is to provide a practical "how-to" guide for countries to assist them in developing and implementing a project aimed at developing their draft National Biosafety Frameworks (NBF), under the UNEP-GEF Project on Development of National Biosafety Frameworks, which will enable them to make technical, political and local decisions on the safe transfer, handling and use of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) and to meet the requirements of the Cartagena Protocol. The toolkit is primarily intended for use by those institutions and staff responsible for designing and carrying out national projects to develop an NBF.
http://www.unep.org/biosafety/Publications.aspx
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- Wildlife Extinction Rates 'Seriously Underestimated'
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This article by Ian Sample notes that a recent re-assessment by scientists of the threat to global biodiversity, suggests that endangered species may become extinct 100 times faster than we previously thought.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/03/10069/
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- World Atlas of Biodiversity
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an outstanding new Web site from the United Nations Environment Programmes World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC). Like other GIS-based programs, the features of this Web site can be useful in demonstrating spatial patterns of environmental problems. Users can choose from dozens of map layers (derived from biodiversity and related data) to superimpose on geographical maps of the planet on a global, regional, or even local scale. Manipulating the maps is relatively straightforward. For example, to explore the correlation between human population density and bird extinctions in North America, drag a box around the continent, select Human Population Density and Bird Extinctions from the map layer menu, and then click Refresh Map. One does not have to be familiar with GIS programs to use this Web site, but a quick look at the Help page should clarify any confusion regarding the site's toolbar icons or other features.
http://stort.unep-wcmc.org/imaps/gb2002/book/viewer.htm
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- World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows
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Global warming is disrupting wildlife and the environment on every continent, according to an unprecedented study that reveals the extent to which climate change is already affecting the world's ecosystems.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/15/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange
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- WTO Rules Set to Devastate Biodiversity
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As hundreds of small farmers, indigenous people's groups and landless peasants start preparations to descend on Cancun in then next few days, Friends of the Earth added its voice to the groups protesting against the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and its new rules that promise a devastating impact on the world's biological and cultural diversity. The WTO's draft agreements on agriculture, services and intellectual property rights will lead to increased deforestation and the replacement of traditional agricultural crops, seeds and livestock by large-scale monocultures, including those based on genetically modified (GM) crops.
http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/press_releases/wto_rules_set_to_devastate0.html
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