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Seventy-five
percent of bear species threatened with extinction
Six out of the world’s eight species of bears are threatened
with extinction, according to recent assessments by the IUCN Bear
and Polar Bear Specialist Groups. Asia and South America are revealed
as the areas most in need of urgent conservation action
The World Conservation Union (IUCN). News
Release. Publicated: 22-11-2007
Commission
adopts a major extension of the Natura 2000 network
The Commission today adopted four decisions that significantly extend
the Natura 2000 network in four biogeographical regions. Given the
large natural variation in bio-diversity across the EU, the directive
divides the Community into different so called bio-geographical
regions: Atlantic, Continental, Alpine, Mediterranean, Boreal, Macaronesian
and Pannonian. The decisions today concern the adoption of an initial
list of Sites of Community Importance in the Pannonian region in
the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia and the updating of the
existing lists in the Atlantic, Boreal and Continental biogeographical
regions. Natura 2000 is an EU-wide network of nature protection
areas established under the 1992 Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC).
It is the centrepiece of EU nature & biodiversity policy.
European Union. Press Release. Publicated:
13-11-2007 |
| CVA
Monthly e-News: November Conservation Volunteers e-News
Conservation Volunteers e-News is the monthly email newsletter that
is filled with information about upcoming conservation projects,
nature holidays, opportunities to volunteer overseas and special
offers.
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA).
Australia. Publication Date: 8-11-2007
One
third of freshwater fish species, under extinction threat in Europe
According to a scientific study published in collaboration with
the UICN, 200 of the 522 European freshwater fish species under
threat of extinction, while 12 already have been extinguished. According
to a new scientific study published within the work ' Handbook of
European freshwater fishes'', 200 of the 522 European freshwater
fish species are threatened with extinction, and 12 are already
extinct, according to the criteria of the red List of species threatened
of the world Union for nature (UICN). Therefore, more then one third
of the freshwater fish species would be affected, and their ecosystems
about to be destroyed, according to the UICN. The degree of threat
is much higher than for the the birds or mammals in Europe, added
the world Union in favor of the nature in an official notice.
Actu-Environnement. News. Environment.
France. Publicated: 6-11-2007
Harnessing
financial markets to benefit biodiversity
The United Nations Environment Programme Financial Initiative (UNEP
FI) yesterday released Bloom or Bust, a report that presents ways
the finance sector can address its impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem
services to benefit both its own investments and the natural environment.
Fauna & Flora International. News &
Publications. Last News. USA. Publicated: 5-11-2007
World’s
protected areas are “critical to stemming extinction crisis”
Protected areas managers from around the world met at a recent forum
organized by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Inverness, Scotland,
to share their expertise. The leaders of government organisations
who manage the world’s major protected areas gathered for
the 2007 World Protected Areas Leadership Forum to discuss the challenges
facing national parks, world heritage sites and other protected
areas...
IUCN Programme on Protected Areas. Bulletin
News. Switzerland. Publicated: 5-11-2007
Planet's
Tougher Problems Persist, UN Report Warns
Nairobi/New York, 25 October:The United Nations Environment
Programme says that major threats to the planet such as climate
change, the rate of extinction of species, and the challenge of
feeding a growing population are among the many that remain unresolved,
and all of them put humanity at risk. The warning comes in UNEP's
Global Environment Outlook: environment for development (GEO-4)
report published 20 years after the World Commission on Environment
and Development (the Brundtland Commission) produced its seminal
report, Our Common Future.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Environment for Development. News Centre. Kenya. Publicated: 1-11-2007
Two
side events with the La Venta Team on Tuesday 30th of October 2007
- Cueva de los Cristales, Naica, Mexico. 6:00 pm
– 7:00 pm. Speakers: Giovanni Badino, Association
La Venta, University of Torino; Paolo Forti, La Venta,
Association La Venta, University of Bologna and Tullio Bernabei,
Association La Venta.
- Caves of Sky – A journey in the heart of glaciers.
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Speakers: Giovanni Badino, Association
La Venta, University of Torino <badino@to.infn.it>
and Antonio De Vivo, Association La Venta.
UNESCO. General Conference. 34th. Publicated:
26-10-2007
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