Managing Seagrasses for Resilience to Climate Change
Learning from Landscapes
This arborvitae special reviews current best practice assessing landscape values based upon on-the-ground experiences in tropical developing countries.
Business has joined forces with the World Conservation Union (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥) to better understand the biology of and threats to western gray whales. The purpose of this broad engagement is to do everything possible to ensure the survival and recovery of this population.
Wood species used for violin bows, shark species featured in British fish and chip meals and coral species exploited for jewelry rank high on the CITES conference agenda for international trade controls in endangered species, opening on Sunday.
Sakhalin Energy and the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, convened by the World Conservation Union (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥), have agreed to work together on seismic surveys and oil spill prevention. These are some of the biggest threats to the critically endangered Western Gray Whales from the oil and gas…
Agriculture and Productivity – conservation imperatives
Food and fuel: Prices matter more than ever – and the stakes are very high. When you ship 1kg of beef around the world, you’re actually shipping about 16,000 litres of water. Feature: Global demand for land to produce food, fuel…Read our Short Guide to Congress to find out more about the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Species Survival Commission (SSC) and Species Programme's events being held at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona this October.
Some large whale species, including the humpback, are now less threatened with extinction, according to the cetacean update of the 2008 Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Red List. Most small coastal and freshwater cetaceans, however, are moving closer to extinction.
Rights-based approaches to forest conservation
News: Liberia’s forest exploitation over the last half-century has ridden roughshod over customary property rights. Perspective: The urban public generally view forest conservation as an unquestionably ‘good thing’ akin to apple pie,…Mankind’s closest relatives – the world’s monkeys, apes and other primates – are disappearing from the face of the Earth, with some being literally eaten to extinction.