News Roundup

  • Nice and morbid article on the work of a fellow Berkeleyan Steve Bellan on anthrax in Etosha NP, with pictures.
  • The Carteret Islands are being inundated by rising sea levels, forcing migration of about 800 of the 1,300 inhabitants. This spring, Dan Box traveled to the islands to report on the evacuation.
  • Carol Kaesuk Yoon on “Naming Nature.”
  • National Red Lists is a new website spearheaded by ZSL to consolidate national-level information on species declines.
  • An interview with Erik Patel on the ecological ramifications of the political unrest in Madagascar, though take with a grain of salt because his solution to the poverty/conservation problem is birth control and tourism…
  • It’s been a slightly environmental few days for the Obama administration, with Tom Vilsack (Sec of Ag) releasing a new vision for the Forest Service (Defenders of Wildlife seems to like it), and the Obama family taking a trip to Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
Posted by Tim on August 17th, 2009 • • 1 comment
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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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