News Roundup

  • BirdLife International has proposed a classification of conservation terms to create a common language among scientists. This was first published in the August issue of Conservation Biology. The IUCN has signed on to use the lexicon in its Species Information System, and it looks like (judging by the authors) WCS, WFF, ZSL, NatureServe and probably a host of other NGOs have agreed to try it out — well, with WCS, at least a subset of their scientists will…
  • Who’s psyched for the Society of Conservation Geographic Information Systems (SCGIS) annual meeting?! I’ll be there tomorrow and Thursday, hopefully live-blogging up a storm.
Posted by Tim on August 12th, 2008 • • Add a comment
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