Biodiversity Evaluation and Monitoring

"Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is an international not-for-profit group that develops standards and protocols for sharing biodiversity data."  

The EU is "highly unlikely" to meet its objective of putting a stop to biodiversity loss by 2010, the European Commission admits. For the bloc to even come close to achieving the target, "intensive efforts" will have to be made by both the Commission and individual member states, according to the...  

WASHINGTON----Dr. Paul Ehrlich, President of the Center for Conservation Biology and Bing Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University, will speak on “The Dominant Animal and the Future of Biodiversity” at World Wildlife Fund on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.  

University of Calgary researchers report that the risk of extinction for plants is higher in habitats close to the equator than those that are more distant. The study by researchers by Jana Vamosi and Steven Vamosi also suggests that animals and plants undergo different extinction processes.  

Research Identifies Where Energy Interests and Biodiversity Interests Collide  

Prague - The protection of climate, human health and the environment, sustainable consumption and production, along with the protection of biodiversity, are priorities of the Czech EU presidency in the environmental area, deputy environment minister Jan Dusik told journalists today.  

The 200 metre-long, 10 metre-high undersea basalt rock formation. A biodiversity researcher has found a huge basalt rock formation in the Taiwan Strait, resembling a city wall and rivalling similar monoliths on land.  

RICHMOND -- Representatives of a biodiversity center, joined by Sierra Club offices in Vermont and New Hampshire, have appealed a federal logging plan they say will threaten parts of the Kilkenny Roadless area in White Mountain National Forest north of Mount Washington. ... - Staff Report  

Source: Reuters TAIPEI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A biodiversity researcher has found a huge basalt rock formation in the Taiwan Strait, resembling a city wall and rivaling similar monoliths on land. The 200 metre-long, 10 ...  

A SMALL office at Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian is set to play a key role in helping to safeguard biodiversity in Edinburgh and the Lothians.