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Geo-Tagging Reveals Mining Threats on Philippine’s “Last Ecological Frontier”
29 Jan 2010 | News story
‘Avatar is real’, say tribal people
Survival International: 25 January 2010 - Following the film, Avatar's win at the Golden Globes, tribal people have claimed that the film tells the real story of their lives today. …
28 Jan 2010 | News story
State of the World's Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous peoples contribute extensibly to humanity's cultural diversity, enriching it withmore than two thirds of its languages and an extrordinary amount of its traditional knowledge. …
28 Jan 2010 | News story
Economic Value of Natural Capital and Green Development Mechanism
Biodiversity continues to be lost; funding continue s to be inadequate. Can carbon markets provide insights for increasing biodiversity finance? During the 1st week of December 2009, the Green Development Mechanism 2010 Initiative kicked off international multi-stakeholder consultations about the possibility of setting up a 'green development mechanism' under the Convention on Biological Diversity - essentially a 'CDM' for biodiversity. …
28 Jan 2010 | News story
Secretariat provided and hosted by Bioversity International
Since 1996 Terralingua, an international NGO and IUCN member, has been at the forefront of developing research and applications in the field of biocultural diversity. This field conceives of the diversity of life as diversity in nature and culture. It has brought to the fore the links and interdependence between language, knowledge and the environment at the local level, and between biodiversity, cultural diversity and linguistic diversity globally. …
28 Jan 2010 | News story
Climate change and agrobiodiversity: Strengthening adaptability and resilience, facilitating adaptation and transition
Agrobiodiversity is already proving to be important in helping rural communities and farmers throughout the world adapt to climate change. Diversity (genetic, species and ecosystem) in production systems can improve adaptability and resilience and is an essential part of adaptation to changing production conditions. …
28 Jan 2010 | News story
Progress towards Conservation of Wild Arabica Coffee in Ethiopia
The remnant forests of Ethiopia are important hotspots for biodiversity conservation. The most popular coffee species (Coffea arabica) originates from the a fromontane rainforests in the country. These forest ecosystems which harbor the only wild gene pools of this globally important crop plant are highly fragmented due to agricultural expansion and over exploitation. …
28 Jan 2010 | News story
Beyond Copenhagen - Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change
The Countdown 2010 initiative in partnership with UNRIC and the Stagiaires Committee of the European Commission is holding an afternoon event on 21st January 2010, to mark the International Year of Biodiversity in Brussels. …
14 Jan 2010 | News story
Convention on Biological Diversity
Nagoya, Japan: 18-29 October 2010
The CBD COP10 meeting being held in Nagoya, Japan will be very significant for a wide range of CEESP interests. …23 Nov 2009 | Event
11th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics
Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany: 22 - 25 August 2010
Ecological systems and their services to humans have been exposed to stress, exploitation and destruction for decades. Biodiversity is being lost at an almost unprecedented pace. Climate change will bring about rapid and unpredictable changes in the earth’s entire biophysical system. There are thus massive indications of a crisis of ecosystems caused by human activity. …23 Nov 2009 | Event
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