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#6454World Oceans Day
8 June 2024, New York, United States of America
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#6447World Water Day
22 March 2024, New York, United States of America
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#6444World Wetlands Day
2 February 2024, Gland, Switzerland
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#6372Meeting
#6292World Oceans Day
8 June 2023, New York, United States of America
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#1346772022-05-25
Jamaicans urged to protect biodiversity
Jamaicans are being urged to take personal responsibility for perserving the evvironment.
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#1345332022-05-18
Extinction obituary: the sudden, sad disappearance of the Christmas Island forest skink
The last Christmas Island forest skink was named Gump. She lived in a spacious cage filled with rocks, soil, logs and a ready supply of fresh invertebrate food in the island’s national park.
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#1342862022-05-05
Safeguarding Biodiversity is Vital for Tourism to Costa Rica
Costa Rica is one of the most desired destinations by tourists from various parts of the world and one of the reasons is related to its extensive biodiversity since foreigners want to know the natural beauties that it houses in its more than 51 thousand square kilometers.
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#1340722022-04-14
Rodrigues: The Indian Ocean island time forgot
Marooned 600km north-east of Mauritius, and close to no other landform, Rodrigues is a world unto itself. It is also one of the world's most remote inhabited islands.
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#1340012022-04-12
Saint Helena - A Bastion of Biodiversity
The small island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic is home to unique fauna and flora. Many of the more than 400 species living here are found nowhere else in the world.
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#1329532022-02-04
How a Global Organisation is Safeguarding Planet Earth’s Key to Survival
There are more than 100,000 islands on Earth, all of which are responsible and indispensable for our survival. Home to the greatest reserve of biodiversity, islands house almost 20 per cent of the planet’s entire biodiversity.
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#6205World Wetlands Day: "Value - Manage - Restore - Love Wetlands"
2 February 2022, Gland, Switzerland
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#1328582022-02-01
The world's tiny islands inspiring green action
Small island communities have often been pioneers for sustainability and climate action. Are they a snapshot of a greener future, or a distraction from bigger problems elsewhere?
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#1319592021-11-26
For tradition and nature on the Bijagós Islands, loss of one threatens the other
Communities in the Bijagós Islands off Guinea-Bissau have for generations maintained a close spiritual connection to nature that’s been credited with the archipelago remaining a biodiversity hotspot.
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#1319632021-11-26
Island conservationists identify key barriers to meeting biodiversity targets
The failure to meet global biodiversity targets clearly indicates the need for more effective biodiversity management and conservation efforts, and this in turn requires better understanding of the current barriers to success.
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#1319192021-11-24
The barriers to achieving island biodiversity targets
A study indicates the greater necessity for biodiversity conservation, analysing 33 barriers to reaching biodiversity targets and how nations are to better manage island ecosystems
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#1319202021-11-24
Island conservationists identify key barriers to meeting biodiversity targets
Research with island conservationists in the Western Indian Ocean revealed a raft of barriers operating across management levels, which interfere with their ability to achieve local and national conservation objectives. The most common problems were limited capacity, limited resources and a lack ...
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#1313232021-10-29
Over half of the world’s vertebrates reside in the tropics
It has long been known that, when it comes to biodiversity, the tropics reign supreme. However, until now, scientists did not have an exact estimate of how many of the world’ s species resided there.
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#1311632021-10-26
Boom time for Cape Verde’s sea turtles as conservation pays off
It’s nearly midnight as Delvis Semedo strolls along an empty beach on the Cape Verdean island of Maio. Overhead, the dense Milky Way pierces the darkness. A sea turtle emerges from the crashing waves and lumbers up the shore. Then another. And another.
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#1310682021-10-22
New study warns biodiversity of plants, animals in Hawaii are in jeopardy
A new study about the loss of biodiversity in island regions is highlighting the urgent need for more action to protect Hawaii’s unique ecosystem.
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#1310702021-10-22
Biodiversity of islands worldwide is in peril, scientists warn
Scientists are sounding the alarm. The biodiversity of islands around the world is becoming increasingly threatened, due in large part to habitat loss, overexploitation, invasive species and climate change.
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#1305922021-09-30
Monteverde is Costa Rica’s newest canton
“With a unique biodiversity in the country, Monteverde is a prosperous and peaceful area, of high tourist attraction, whose inhabitants have known how to develop sustainable economic activities, protecting and caring for their natural resources,” said President Carlos Alvarado at a signing ceremony.
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#1304862021-09-20
Apo Island goes zero waste
ONE of the country's top scuba diving sites, the Apo Island in Dauin, Negros Oriental, is intensifying its advocacy on zero waste management as it pilot tests the use of organic shampoos and body wash, lime soap bars, organic liquid laundry and dishwashing solutions to eliminate plastic waste sa ...
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#1301752021-09-01
Helping hands for Small Island Developing States
Nearly 30 years ago, given their unique environmental and developmental needs, Small Island Developing States were recognized as a special category at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.
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#1295612021-07-13
Scientists are fighting to protect a shark and turtle 'superhighway'
Deep in the Pacific Ocean, an underwater "superhighway" stretches roughly 700 kilometers (430 miles) between the marine reserves of Ecuador's Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island, off the coast of Costa Rica.