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Run for Biodiversity 2013!

18 May - 20 October 2013, Ottawa, Canada

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SA’s green jobs: how are they growing?

SOUTH Africa faces many economic, environmental and social challenges. Inflation, constraints of energy, water and food, and a 24.9% unemployment rate are just a few.

Uganda: UN Boss Hails Women Conservation Project

A women's fish farming project that emphasises conserving biodiversity on Lake Victoria, has been hailed by the UN Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark.

Why Manhattan's Green Roofs Don't Work--and How to Fix Them

On a rooftop in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, two students are collecting soil samples from boxes planted with species from two native plant communities:

From 'Potent' Pollen to Double Whammy Allergy Seasons: How Climate Change Could Affect Seasonal Allergies

In the past 53 years, carbon dioxide levels have risen globally approximately 22 percent. Much has been written about how the rise in greenhouse gases is bad for the environment, but less has been said about how these gases can help some plants flourish.

Climate Change Impacts Ripple Through Fishing Industry While Ocean Science Lags Behind

With a limberness that defies his 69 years, Frank Mirarchi heaves himself over the edge of a concrete wharf and steps out onto a slack, downward sloping dock line bouncing 20 feet above the lapping waters near Scituate, Mass.

Empowering communities to combat deforestation

Kibaha district authorities may not know exactly how much of their remaining indigenous forests are being illegally harvested but they see the size of bare land that was otherwise covered by trees increasing at an alarming rate. They have decided to deal with the situation.

Caribbean political, business leaders meet on Branson’s private island to discuss conservation

KINGSTON, Jamaica — In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean’s tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Richard Branson’s private island with the aim of protecting 20 percent of the region’s coastal resources by 2020.

Migratory “Flyways” Decimated by Human Expansion

UNITED NATIONS, May 17 2013 (IPS) - Migratory birds, which play an important role in the complex web of life known as ecosystem services, are under threat as never before, with some species facing extinction within the next decade.

'Crazy ants' from South America invading southeastern U.S.

AUSTIN, Texas, May 16 (UPI) -- Invasive "crazy ants" displacing native fire ants across the southeastern United States could have dramatic effects on the region's ecosystem, researchers say

UK's rare spring butterflies make a late show

The UK's spring butterflies are being welcomed by enthusiasts, but weeks later than they usually arrive.

Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives

German researchers have discovered the biological keys to the success of an invasive species, wreaking havoc across Europe and the US,

Researchers develop highest-resolution global forest cover dataset to date

Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation. 9

Global warming has not stalled, insists world's best-known climate scientist

Suggestions that global warming has stalled are a "diversionary tactic" from "deniers" who want the public to be confused over climate change, according to the world's best-known climate scientist.

Regional Workshop for the Pacific Countries on the Preparation of the Fifth National Report, 22-26 July 2013 – Nadi, Fiji

Reference: SCBD/SAM/RH/LC/GT/81817 (2013-038)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Thanks to the collaborative effort of the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP) and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a set of 20 icons representing the Aichi Biodiversity Targets is now available for use by Parties and organizations.

UNEP/CBD/BS/BCH-IAC/8/2

Summary Outcomes of the Eighth Meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee of the Biosafety Clearing-House

UNEP/CBD/ABS/EM-CB/1/INF/2

Bioversity International Joint Capacity Building Programme for Developing Countries on the Implementation of the International Treaty and Its Multilateral System of Access and Benefit Sharing

Ms. Adriana Sequeira

REMINDER: Submission of information and views in preparation for the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Nagoya Protocol

Reference: SCBD/NP/SBG/BG/jh/81188 (2013-037)
To: CBD Focal Points, ICNP Focal Points, international organizations, indigenous and local communities, and relevant stakeholders

Dinja Wahda Rangers awarded for promoting biodiversity

This morning, 30 students from Saint Theresa College Girls’ Secondary, Mriehel, received awards in recognition of their contribution to biodiversity protection in the Maltese Islands.

Illegal roads abound in reserved forest areas

Chennai: While foresters ha­ve looked the other way, roads have been built without authorisation and in violation of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972, in the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve.

Illegal Coal Mining Found In Protected Status Forest

Kutai Kartanegara, East Kalimantan. Police in Kutai Kartanegara have seized 1,100 metric tons of coal allegedly mined illegally from a protected forest, but have not made any arrests in the case.

Gabon convicts environmentalist of defamation in palm oil case

An environmental activist in Gabon is facing jail time and a $10,000 fine over his campaign against a Singaporean agroindustrial giant's plan to develop tens of thousands of hectares in oil palm, timber, and rubber plantations in the Central African nation.