Posts Tagged ‘conference’
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Notes from WILD9 – Edward Lohnes Blogs
As I left my hotel in the town of Mérida, Mexico, I was reminded once again just how pleasant the climate is down here this time of year, and how I can get away without the use of a pullover, coat, three pairs of socks and two pairs of gloves (it is probably freezing in Washington DC by now!) I boarded one of the buses that transports attendees to the convention center; the ride was short and full of numerous accents from around the globe. A short time later we arrived at WILD 9 – The World Wilderness Congress. The ... -
World Water Week 2009 Wrap-up
World Water Week is an annual meeting to discuss the planet’s most urgent water-related issues, held in Stockholm, Sweden. This year’s conference ended August 22. To learn more, visit http://www.conservation.org/water2009. Read a dispatch from Lina Barrera, policy manager at Conservation International, below. We were part of three sessions, the first described in Ian's post a few days ago on environmental flows, another on assessing vulnerability to climate change as an input to decision making around land uses, protected area siting, construction of dams, and lastly a presentation of the innovative Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) as useful for decisions with freshwater ... -
Dispatch From World Water Week 2009
World Water Week is an annual meeting to discuss the planet’s most urgent water-related issues, held in Stockholm, Sweden. This year's conference ended August 22. To learn more, visit http://www.conservation.org/water2009. Read a dispatch from Ian Harrison, CI scientist and conference attendee, below. On Saturday August 16, a seminar session on Environmental Flows for Sustainable Development, Poverty Alleviation, and Biodiversity Conservation was convened by the Global Environmental Flows Network (eflowNet), USAID Global Water for Sustainability Programs (GLOWS), Conservation International, Deltares, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Swedish Water House (SWH), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), UNEP-DHI Centre for Water ... -
SCB 2009 Conference: Wrap up
The 23rd annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, the premier professional conservation science association, was widely agreed to be a remarkable success. The first-ever SCB meeting held in Asia survived both the global recession and fears about swine flu threatened – although rumors of quarantine for suspicion of H1N1 were rampant, the absence of a number of lead authors and presenters was likely due to the pressures of recession on non-profits and academic institutions rather than health detainments. Conservation International (CI)’s delegation included roughly twenty staff who presented work on a range of topics, examining conservation ... -
SCB 2009 Conference: Day 2
A symposium on crane conservation in Eastern Asia, moderated by the International Crane Foundation, explored the ways in which successful community engagement has been critical to the success of crane conservation efforts in the region. Through efforts such as micro-lending programs, educational efforts in schools and community enterprise programs, crane conservation efforts in the region have galvanized communities around conservation of these beautiful birds – efforts that serve as a gateway to build stronger alliances in communities and broaden conservation efforts. On a less positive note, the freshwater conservation section featured a presentation detailing the decline of the Yangtze River Dolphin, or ... -
SCB 2009 Conference: Day 1
The first full day of the Society for Conservation Biology's 2009 International Congress for Conservation Biology started off strong. -
Making Forests Key to Climate Change: Road to Copenhagen
In December, thousands of scientists, policy-makers, and government leaders will gather in Copenhagen to agree upon an ambitious and effective international response to climate change. CI is already working toward that day. CI has committed to a major initiative designed to advance the science of climate change; to expand the debate about options for combating the increase of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere; and to ensure that international agreements incorporate healthy ecosystems – tropical forests primary among them – as a key element of any international climate plan. CI is working on many fronts, both directly with the U.S. Administration and Congress, ...
