aaaand we’re back
- Corey’s got a couple of interesting posts, one on a paper about conservation prioritization based on ecosystem services, and another about succesful conservation in Indonesia (via a TED talk by Willie Smits).
- Salazar has released maps of potential BLM lands fast-tracked for solar energy development.
- 9th Circuit strikes down Bush administration rules relaxing wildlife protections.
- Revkin asks, in a well-linked article, can roads and rain forests coexist? Sure. In the same way that prison inmates coexist.
- Ganges River Dolphins not doing so hot.
- A run down of Sen. Jon Tester’s (D- MT) new wilderness bill.
- Nature-based tourism is both increasing and decreasing, says Balmford.
- How a municipal strike in Windsor, OT changed peoples’ minds about “overgrown” grass.
News Roundup
- Some captive Black rhinos have been released in an undisclosed location in Kenya.
- Huh? … Oh, there’s a meeting happening right now in Barcelona, the World Conservation Congress. Here’s a statement (pdf) from Dr Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the CBD.
- Ted Turner and some other bigwigs have announced a set of criteria for sustainable tourism (“Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria“) so you can tell the difference between green and greenwashed.
- The mammals, they are dooooooomed. One in four are facing extinction now Red Listed as vulnerable or endangered.
- The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre has relaunched its database of protected areas. The press release focuses on making all their data available on-line, though it doesn’t touch on whether they’ve actually updated the database or not. There’s a book to go along with it, with pretty pictures (okay, okay, those pictures aren’t in the book. But they’re nice).
- “Indigenous forest dwellers in Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of Borneo, have rejected a proposal to turn 80,000 hectares (250,000 acres) of the land into an oil palm plantation.”
Posted by Tim on October 6th, 2008 • • Add a comment
Tags: borneo•iucnredlist•oilpalm•rhinos•tedturner•tourism•unepwcmc•wcc•wdpa
Tags: borneo•iucnredlist•oilpalm•rhinos•tedturner•tourism•unepwcmc•wcc•wdpa
Tags: blm•dolphins•energy•tourism•wilderness