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Environment News tagged with biodiversity

Habitat Banking Is the Future of Nature Conservation in the UK
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, biodiversity, habitat, nature, protection, trees )

Cher
- 7 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Habitat banking is not a 'license to trach' - it's an opportunity to apply market-based conservation that can help biodiversity in the UK
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Expeditions to Search for New Species in Mozambique & Madagascar
Environment  (tags: animals, environment, expeditions, Madagascar, biodiversity, habitat, nature, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 20 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The expeditions will span ten years and conduct a massive inventory of biodiversity in geographical areas which, up until now, have been little explored. The objective is to accelerate the scientific discovery of new species, by focusing our efforts on
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Red List Update Shows Up Global Failure to Slow Biodiversity Loss
Environment  (tags: animals, red list, biodiversity, loss, AnimalWelfare, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, environment, nature )

Cher
- 21 days ago - ca.sys-con.com
The latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species should cause alarm over the continuing unprecedented loss of species and the failure so far of mechanisms to arrest biodiversity loss
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Five Key Threats To Biodiversity
Environment  (tags: environment, biodiversity, threats, habitat, nature, protection )

Cher
- 25 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Biodiversity is vital to all life. The lessons uncovered in the unique Nordic countries need to be applied on a global scale.
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Largest River Protection Area in Europe -- Croatia and Hungary
Environment  (tags: environment, biodiversity, protection, habitat, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 65 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Croatia and Hungary signed an agreement yesterday to protect a major biodiversity area that crosses borders along three rivers. The agreement is being called a "Trans-Boundary UNESCO Biosphere Reserve" and has resulted in the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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Conservation By Tradition (New Caledonia)
Environment  (tags: Biodiversity, Conservation, Nature, Wildlife )

Ben
- 90 days ago - conservation.org
Sustainability is not a new idea. When people first landed on New Caledonia's shores 3,500 years ago, they began making efforts to conserve the island's bounty for future generations. From forests to fisheries, today the descendants of those...
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China's Conservation Challenges
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, habitat, China, biodiversity, wildlife, nature, protection )

Cher
- 111 days ago - fauna-flora.org
As the world's conservation professionals and students come together at the Society for Conservation Biology's Annual Meeting in Beijing this year, FFI Chief Executive Mark Rose reflects on our China programme and the conservation challenges China faces:
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Our Work in Africa
Environment  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, biodiversity, wildlife, Africa, environment, habitat, protection, nature )

Cher
- 184 days ago - fauna-flora.org
The need for social and economic development in Africa is often seen as the greatest imperative; biodiversity conservation may be overlooked due to a lack of understanding of the links between biodiversity and social and economic well-being.
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Biologists Call For Network Of Protected Rivers
Environment  (tags: environment, water, Rivers, pollution, protection, biodiversity )

Dee
- 185 days ago - sciencedaily.com
An international research team has used the Guadiana River basin, in which 92% of the species are under threat, as a reference point to measure the loss of aquatic biodiversity and its conservation value
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Islands Should Be Top of Protection Priority
Environment  (tags: environment, biodiversity, nature, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 189 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Rare and unique ecological communities will be lost if oceanic islands aren't adequately considered in a global conservation plan, a new study has found. Although islands tend to hold fewer species than continental lands of similar size, plants and animal
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Our Home and Native Plants
Environment  (tags: native plants, Canada, biodiversity, conservation, environment, protection, nature )

Cher
- 236 days ago - cwf-fcf.org
Canada is home to thousands of identified native plant species, but more than a quarter of them could be lost forever if we don't play an active role in their conservation. As an essential element of our natural biodiversity, native plants provide an
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Birds and Climate Change: Ecological Disruption in Progress
Environment  (tags: birds, biodiversity, globalwarming, climate-change, climate, conservation, endangered, environment, globalwarming, habitat, humans, nature, politics, protection, habitatdestruction, wildlife, world, Sustainabililty )

Elena
- 286 days ago - audubonaction.org
Our recently-released Birds and Climate report clearly shows that climate change is affecting birds - and our world - now. Tell your lawmakers where you stand on global warming by signing our petition.
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Biodiversity Hotspots Are Also Major Carbon Sinks
Environment  (tags: biodiversity, hotspots, CO2emissions, climate, conservation, destruction, ecosystems, energy, environment, green, habitat, protection, research, trees, world )

Pirjo
- 352 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Maps pinpointing overlaps of high carbon and high biodiversity areas were just launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) with its Carbon and Biodiversity demonstration atlas.
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Friends of the Earth USA
Environment  (tags: Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Environment, Mother Earth )

Ben
- 404 days ago - foe.org
At Friends of the Earth, you will find a group of committed people who fight daily for a healthy and just world.
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Top 10 Conservation Successes for 2007
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, conservation, animals, habitats, wildlife, plants, endangered species, science, success, oceans, china, new york, biodiversity, ecology, tnc, nature conservancy, the nature conservancy, non-profits, charity )

Jonathon
- 705 days ago - nature.org
From New York to Costa Rica, from the first national park in China to a marine protected area in the South Pacific, these are the best of the best, the conservation success stories with the most impact for nature and people in 2007.
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