Biodiversity Evaluation and Monitoring

A two-day workshop "Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas" organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Global Mountain Biodiversity Programme (GMBA) concluded on Sunday (Nov 16) with a call to create a mountain biodiversity...  

KUCHING: An international advisory board will be set up to advise the state government on biodiversity and research and development.  

An endangered mammal, 71 birds, seven amphibians and 19 reptiles are among the finds of a biodiversity survey recently conducted in Quanda Nature Reserve near Hermidale.  

This paper provides an explanation of the key provisions of the Act, a summary of how the provisions have been implemented since the Act came into force in 2000, and a selection of key questions regarding the operation of the Act to help stimulate discussion as part of the review.  

KOTA KINABALU, Nov 7 (Bernama) -- The designation of the lower Kinabatangan-Segama as a Ramsar site is another milestone in the biodiversity and ecosystem conservation initiative in Sabah, State Secretary Datuk Sukarti Wakiman said today.  

New Delhi, Nov 6 : The government Thursday approved the National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP), aimed at safeguarding India's natural wealth and to integrate biodiversity conservation into the planning process for economic and social development.  

MPs have called on the government to do more to protect the environment and halt the loss of biodiversity in Britain's overseas territories.  

Biodiversity loss in England remains severe despite government conservation attempts, an environmental audit committee report said today.  

[CHENNAI] Researchers have shown that some types of tropical agriculture can sustain biodiversity, contrary to popular belief.  

Long established, low-impact farming methods can help sustain the biodiversity of tropical forests, a study shows.  

An exhibition of 60 photos, leaflets with carvings and films on biodiversity is open to the public since this Wednesday to January 04, 2009, at the National Museum of Natural History.  

There is a unique opportunity in South Africa this week for the wine industry to engage with the conservation community and put sustainability on the global wine agenda.  

Experts have called in a workshop to create a mountain biodiversity information network in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region for mutual benefit and transboundary cooperation. The two-day workshop "Linking Geodata with Biodiversity Information in the Himalayas" was organized in Nepali capital...  

Among delegates attending the World Conference on Marine Biodiversity in Valencia, Spain this week is Principal Investigator Dr Louise Allcock from NUI, Galway . With colleagues from Cambridge University, Queen's University Belfast and the British Antarctic Survey, she will report on the first...  

The Equator Initiative, a United Nations-led partnership that supports grassroots efforts in biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation, has selected 25 winners of the Equator Prize 2008.