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Actions Of Individuals Key To Saving Biodiversity -- And Ourselves, Biologists Say

That makes you a fan of biodiversity, because those essentials for life-human and otherwise-are maintained as a direct result of the Earth's biodiversity, the abundance and variety of species and populations on the planet. Preserving a substantial amount of biodiversity is critical to a healthy future for us, but how best to do that has been a subject of ongoing debate.

Biodiversity Bank Set Up

KOTA KINABALU: A biodiversity bank, the first of its kind in Asia, has been set up to raise funds to protect and conserve the biodiversity-rich 34,000ha Malua Forest Reserves in the east coast of Sabah.

CEPF helps conserve biodiversity hotspots in Vietnam

The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) will help conserve biodiversity hotspots in Vietnam as part of its new funding plan for civil society-engaged biodiversity conservation in Indochina.

Charities Warn Over Biodiversity Skills

Biodiversity has seen minimal improvement through planning policy guidance and is a bureaucratic burden for councils, a select committee has been told. The RSPB warned the Commons environmental audit committee this week that there is a lack of ecological expertise in local authority planning departments.

Biodiversity: Some species could be wiped out 100 times faster than feared, say researchers

Endangered species could become extinct 100 times faster than previously thought, scientists warned yesterday in a bleak reassessment of the threats to global biodiversity. They say methods used to predict when species will die out are seriously flawed and dramatically underestimate the speed at which some will disappear.

New Biodiversity Maps Will Help to Guide Conservation Measures in East Africa

Hot and cool spots for biodiversity emerge from overlapped ranges of all East Africas amphibians birds and mammals. Photo Credit: Jetz labUCSD

Smithsonian Coral Biodiversity Survey Of Panama's Pearl Islands

A comprehensive survey of coral biodiversity in Panama's Las Perlas Archipelago by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and their colleagues, has resulted in clear conservation recommendations for a new coastal management plan.

Smithsonian coral biodiversity survey of Panama's Pearl Islands

A comprehensive survey of coral biodiversity in Panama's Las Perlas Archipelago, published in the journal Environmental Conservation by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and their colleagues, has resulted in clear conservation recommendations for a new coastal management plan.

Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change

A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. Researchers from Lyon (1) and Canberra (Australia) (2) have found evidence of a progressive ocean cooling of about 15°C over a period of 40 million years during the Ordovician (3). Until now, this geologic period had been associated with a "super greenhouse effect" on our planet.

Did global cooling lead to marine life biodiversity?

An explosion in marine biodiversity that happened 460 million years ago could be the result of global climate change, according to researchers.

Dying amphibians signal impending biodiversity crisis

An alarming decline in amphibian species signals an impending biodiversity disaster or a new mass extinction threatening the planet, according to University of California researchers.

Dying amphibians signal impending biodiversity crisis

An alarming decline in amphibian species signals an impending biodiversity disaster or a new mass extinction threatening the planet, according to University of California researchers.

Did global cooling lead to marine life biodiversity?

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhuanet) -- An explosion in marine biodiversity that happened 460 million years ago could be the result of global climate change, according to researchers.

Fossil And Molecular Evidence Reveals The History Of Major Marine Biodiversity Hotspots

Experts have described three major marine biodiversity hotspots in the last 50 million years, from the oldest, peaked in southwest Europe and northwest Africa, to the modern Indo-Australian Archipelago hotspot and along the eastern shore of the Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan, and West India.

Pulau Banding Meet to Promote Belum-Temengor Biodiversity

MALAYSIA'S 130 million-year-old Belum-Temengor rainforest complex in northern Perak, located 330km north of Kuala Lumpur, is one of the world's oldest tropical rainforests that needs protection as it is rich with biodiversity.

Biodiversity Defensing Against Climate Change

Climate change is happening, and we must develop ways for all life to be able to cope, environmental advocates urge. WWF Vietnam Programme is looking at this through the development of resilient multifunctional landscapes that also work as forest corridors, assisting with species dispersal and adaptation, by changes in land-use practices.

Insect Biodiversity in Amazon May Be Result of Ice Age Climate Change And Ancient Flooding, Not River Barriers

Ice age climate change and ancient flooding--but not barriers created by rivers--may have promoted the evolution of new insect species in the Amazon region of South America, a new study suggests.

Calibrating biodiversity using DNA barcodes

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Spotlight on Biodiversity Hotspots

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Waterford to get biodiversity park

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The History Of Major Marine Biodiversity Hotspots

The journal "Science" has published in the issue of the 1st of August the results of a detailed research work about the evolution of marine diversity all through the last 50 million years. The study has been carried out with the participation of scientists from Australia, Spain, USA, UK, Holland, Malaysia and Panama.

Ancient Ocean Cooling Sparked a Biodiversity Boom

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[POLICY FORUM] ECOLOGY: Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System

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Vietnam illegal wildlife trade eats away at biodiversity: reports

HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam's appetite for illegal wildlife meat and demand for traditional medicine is devastating animal and plant species within and beyond its borders, experts warn in two new reports.

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