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JRS Announces Two New Grants to Support Biodiversity Information in Africa
SEATTLE, August 8, 2014 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce the funding of two new awards that expand upon the outstanding work of two previous grants. JRS awards funding to the Université d'Abomey-Calavi (Benin) and to Tulane University (USA) to continue important work in the foundation's focus region of Africa. "JRS is excited to extend our partnerships and capacity building in Africa through the continued development of Benin's biodiversity information portal and by…
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Biologist warn of early stages of Earth's sixth mass extinction event
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San Diego's Newesr Non-Profit Teams Up With National Geographic
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Citizen Science: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
By Michael Bear
Enter the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where citizen scientists from all over the world (without Ph.Ds or white lab coats) can enter data about their bird sightings and even discover new species.
“Collecting the observations of everyday birders for scientific use is a hallmark of the Lab. Bird watchers of all ages and skill levels help gather the data needed to capture the big picture about the distribution and abundance of birds.…
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Hunger strike of bank fishermen in Mauritius
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Healthy Seas 'fish net' socks available in Kaufland stores
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Importing Nepal's community Forestry Ideas to West Africa
Bringing Nepal’s community forestry Ideas to West Africa
A long journey it was indeed, from Liberia to Southeast Asia. And finally, I arrived at the Tribhuvan International Airport and headed strict to the Kathmandu Guest House. I was four days late for class.
The purpose of my visit, to form part of Future Generations Graduate School class 2014 term III residential to gain insight into the successes leading to Sustainable Community Based Natural Resource Management in…
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Climate Change Adaptation: Illiterate Farmers Go Back to School
some community farmers learning basic numerals, modern agric practices, picture Francis Npong…
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Pink Trumpet unfolds petals for traditional New Year
Erabudu is the flower of the Avurudu season but you will hardly be able to find erabadu these days. Instead, rosy trumpet (tabebuia) flowers bloom, marking the onset of the New Year season becoming the messenger of Biodiversity to announce the dawn of the spring. (photos by Susantha Udagedara)
This is the famous sakura flower season in Japan with thousands of cherry trees in full bloom. The cherry trees shed their leaves in winter and in spring…
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WHEN A COMMUNITY FOREST BECOMES A PRIVATE FARM
prunus.jpgOn the right flange of the winding road leading to Oku from Babungo is an extension of the ‘Shingaa Community Forest’’; one amongst the forests managed under the Community Forest Management (CFM) tenure system in Oku. This scene located on the slopes of the Kilum Mountain in the North West Region of Cameroon is an…
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Garden lizard gains an elite relative from a Sri Lankan forest
The The common green garden lizard that belongs to the Agamid lizard family this week gained a new relative that brings to 19 the number of spcies in this group, 16 of them endemic to Sri Lanka. new addition is been a result of strenuous scientific analysis under difficult conditions by young researchers Thasun Amarasinghe and Sameera Suranjan Karunaratne.
This lizard lives in the forests in the Knuckles Range. It had been misidentified as the Crestless…
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Look Who’s Helping Olive Ridley
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Provinces get their own butterflies
verybody loves a butterfly and perhaps Sri Lankans more than most: four years after the Sri Lanka Birdwing was declared the national butterfly each of the nine provinces are to get their own butterfly.
The nine are considered flagship species due to their attractive colour patterns and have been selected because they are endemic to Sri Lanka, charismatic and readily seen. None of the butterflies are a pest at any stage of its life cycle nor a vectoring agent of…
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Beaked whale with Sinhala name retakes its place in history
This week, an enigmatic whale first described studying a specimen found in Sri Lanka has been reclassified as a new marine mammal species. The whale species – member of a family known as beaked whales for their elongated beak-like snouts – bears an interesting history.On 26 January 1963 a specimen of a dying 4.5m-long, blue-grey female beaked whale was washed ashore at Ratmalana. After…
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Largest day gecko the first on 2014 endemic new species list
A gecko has become the first creature in 2014 to join the impressive list of endemic species of Sri Lanka. The new species, discovered in Rammalakanda forest, has been named Rammale day gecko (Rammale diva huna), classified scientifically as Cnemaspis rammalensis.
New species: Active during the day
Unlike the common house gecko that is found hunting insects near lamps in most households at night, the new species is mostly active during the day.
Sri…
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Ankutta join list of endemic fish
Sri Lanka is home to four species of Ankutta or catfish. One, scientifically classified as Mystus keletius, has been identified as a species native to both Sri Lanka and India, but new analysis by Dr. Heok Hee Ng and Rohan Pethiyagoda on this species has confirmed the Sri Lankan species is different from the Indian fish and…
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Environmental Impacts of activities from mechanic workshops in Nigeria
Indiscriminate dumping of heavy metals from auto-mechanic workshops can endanger public health and ecosystem.
A professor of chemistry, Babajide Alo warns that other activities at the mechanic workshops put the artisans and their clients at risk.
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Busines Unusual for the Energy Sector
For the energy sector, it is not “business as usual,” not only because of supply factors, but also related to focus on more efficient and sustainable uses of energy and climate change....
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Towards Food Security: Global and Regional Agriculture Policy Solutions:
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2014/01/expert-re-focus-agriculture-archives.html
The Summit of the Americas can move close…
Towards Food Security: Global and Regional Agriculture Policy Solutions:
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2014/01/expert-re-focus-agriculture-archives.html…
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Media and Agriculture: A Marriage of Necessity?
Producer: Kris Rampersad
Director: Kris Rampersad
Duration: 6 minutes and 36 seconds
Country: Trinidad and Tobago, Language: English
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Media and Agriculture: A Marriage of Necessity?
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