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Montreal, 8 November 2011 –At the margins of the fifteenth meeting of Subsidiary Body on Scientific Technical and Technological Advice, the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Global Director, Biodiversity Conservation Group, of the Inte ...
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CB/CE/83491 (2014-065)
To: All CBD National Focal Points and Partner Organizations
Reference: SCBD/STTM/DC/JSH/aw/80831 (2012-127)
To: CBD National Focal Points for Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Reference: SCBD/STTM/DC/JSh/aw/79830 (2012-072)
To: GTI National Focal Points and SBSTTA Focal points East and South East Asian countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea
Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/JSH/VA/86004 (2017-042)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago
That is the conclusion of a study tracking research, fishing and tourist vessels that routinely visit the protected, otherwise isolated region.
Scientists uncover patterns that predict which insects will harm North America’s conifers
18 - 22 September 2017, Kingston, Jamaica
14 - 15 June 2014, Montreal, Canada
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/JSH/CE/83223 (2014-033)
To: CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points, relevant organizations and potential donors
Reference: SCBD/MPO/AF/OH/JSH/CE/84551 (2015-102)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Comoros, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu
Reference: SCBD/SPS/CG/JSH/CE/85750 (2016-076)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Cabo Verde, Comoros, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Samoa, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu
Over the past few months, with the warmer summer temperatures, the City of Cape Town has been battling with an invasion of yellow and black insects, commonly known as the German wasp (Vespula germanica) and European Paper wasp (Polistes dominula).
In South Africa’s Franschhoek mountains a helicopter drops off abseilers to cut down invasive pine trees that are choking off water supplies to millions of Cape Town residents already facing climate change-induced shortages.
Montreal, 22 May 2009 – Invasive alien species (IAS) - one of the greatest threats to biodiversity, and to the ecological and economic well-being of society and the planet – is this year’s theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). This year, the event is being marked by a r ...
Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) in collaboration with Dakshin Foundation propose to present findings and lessons from position papers authored by experts on themes like coastal developments, coastal governance, mariculture, ecological concerns with invasive alien species, marine and coa ...
The Norwegian fishing village of Bugøynes, 310 miles north of the Arctic Circle and a frigid, dark place for much of the year, was on the edge of ruin.
Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/JSH/CRm/77335 (2011-172)
To: CBD and GTI focal points for Latin America
Please refer to my earlier notification of 23 August 2011, Ref.: SCBD/STTM/JM/JSH/CRm/77335, regarding the regional training workshop for Parties from Latin America, with special focus on invasive alien species and taxonomy which was to have taken place from 3-4 November 2011 in Montreal, Canada ...
English SpanishA team of scientists from the University of Southampton, Bangor University and the National Oceanography Centre have discovered several artificially introduced species in the coastal waters of southern England, using a technique that could help the early detection of non-native species if adopte ...
Mosquitoes, rats and termites among species that have hitched ride on trade routes, causing at least $1.3tn of damage. The costs of damage caused by invasions of alien species across the world is trebling every decade, research has found.
A dangerous waterweed is spreading across water bodies in Southern Africa and could soon strangle life-supporting services such as fishing if it is not controlled, a scientist says.
Reference: SCBD/SPS/CG/JSH/86109 (2016-142)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, and relevant organizations
Separately, climate change and invasive species are two of the greatest threats to biodiversity and the ecosystem services upon which humanity relies. Combined their impacts will be compounded, potentially resulting in negative feedback loops with increasingly dire consequences. Fortunately, we ...
A perfect storm of international trade, human carelessness and climate change are bringing new species to the UK that can out-compete native flora and fauna
Development of guiding principles for the prevention of impacts of alien species and identifying priority areas of work on isolated ecosystems and giving recommendations for further development of the Global Invasive Species Programme
Presentation: Informatics & Interoperability (Samy Gaiji, GBIF)
Presentation: The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC)
Presentation: AHTEG Issues in Developing Countries (Geoffrey Howard, IUCN)
Presentation: Risk Analysis (Stanley Burgiel, USA)
Presentation: Pathways of Introduction (Piero Genovesi, IUCN-SSC-ISSG)
Participants on the liaison group meeting on alien invasive species
Information for participants
Press Release<br>Governments seek strategies for battling invasive alien species
Code of Conduct on Horticulture and Invasive Alien Plants
Bern Convention Action on Invasive Alien Species in Europe
L’action de la Convention de Berne sur les espèces non indigènes invasives en Europe
Report of the Subregional Capacity-Building Workshop to Address Invasive Alien Species and to Achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 9 in the Arab Region
Information for Participants
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/JSH/CE/83223 (2014-062)
To: CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points, relevant organizations and potential donors
22 - 23 November 2017, Brussels, Belgium
5 April 2023, Online
Kerala researchers have found that alien fish species, arapaima and alligator gar, were caught from four rivers after the floods of 2018.
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has successfully proven the presence of invasive crayfish in almost all the small streams around Lake Akan in Japan, suggesting that eDNA analysis is an efficient and highly sensitive method to assess the distribution of aquatic organisms.
On March 16 this year, around ten days before Assam went to polls, routine checks were on at the checkpoint in Ghiladhari in Golaghat district of the eastern state. When the police stopped a private vehicle, they didn’t expect what they saw – macaws, silvery marmosets and golden-headed tamarin, ...
Last April, a male Burmese python led researchers at the Big Cypress National Preserve in the Florida Everglades straight to a 17-foot female that was carrying 73 developing eggs.
The Belgian coastal dunes, a protected habitat of high conservation value, are getting severely impacted by one of its worst enemies amongst invasive species: the Oregon grape. To help mitigate the detrimental effect of this North American shrub invader, Belgian scientists carried out an experim ...
29 September - 3 October 2008, Rome, Italy