Biodiversity Evaluation and Monitoring

Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity Review Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity Overview Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions...Read Full Story

Cuba - Peninsula of Guanahacabibes - has been selected as a base for a research venture between Cuba and Spain. Cuban Scientists from the Cuban Oceanology Institute and the Spanish University of Oviedo have come together to document hundreds of marine species in the western most part of Cuba and Los Jardines de la Reina in trhe central part of the Island.In an interview conducted by Prensa Latina the Spanish Biology Professor Jesus Ortega from Oviedo University expressed that more than 700...Read Full Story

Last night I was able to enjoy a view of Mount Royal that I'd never seen before--from the 10th floor of an apartment building near the bottom of the slope. The building is a condo that dates from the 1970s (whether it was built as that or as apartments, I'm not sure) and is far enough away from the mountain itself not to block views. As the sun set, the billows of green leaves looked amazingly bucolic, and yet we were in the center of the city.That is one of the pleasures of Montreal, of...Read Full Story

Community-Based Marine Conservation Workshop - Fiji NEWS RELEASE Fiji to Host Major Marine Conservation Meeting Fiji will be the site of a major marine conservation meeting, "Views from Experience in Community - Based Marine Conservation", to be held from 24-29 June, 1999. Participants will include staff of the Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN) from Washington, D.C., the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, and representatives from three marine conservation...Read Full Story

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new co-author James Gibbs offer a thorough introduction to the fascinating and important field of conservation biology, focusing on what can be done to maintain biodiversity through management of ecosystems and populations. Starting with a succinct look at conservation and biodiversity, this book progresses to contend with some of the subjects most complex topics, such as mass extinctions, ecosystem degradation, and over...Read Full Story