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Mon 15 Feb 10
Celebrating taxonomy in the International Year of Biodiversity
BioNET has been made an official partner to the CBD in the International Year of Biodiversity. Following the spirit of the year - Biodiversity is Life. Biodiversity is Our Life – BioNET’s network is working globally, regionally and nationally, celebrating taxonomy and biodiversity in market places and back yards in Fiji, a film on neglected plant species of North Africa, an inventory of plant genetic resources in Mali, a conference session on Central Asian microbial diversity and taxonomy, conservation assessments in Sri Lanka, a Biodiversity Informatics Congress in Kenya, the first Latin American Congress of Biodiversity, and at scientific and popular events in Bangladesh and beyond. More...

 
Wed 10 Feb 10
UK Non-native Species Secretariat website launched

Taxonomic information and products form key components of the website:
* Over 1700 non-native species in a photo gallery
* 64 non-native species identification sheets
* 11 non-native species sounds
* Non-native species alerts
More...

 
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Wed 10 Feb 10
Biodiversity loss matters, and communication is crucial
The failed UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December could hardly have been a less promising prelude to the International Year of Biodiversity, which opened last month. As with climate change, the threat of large-scale biodiversity loss — and the need for global political action to stop it — is growing every day. At a meeting about biodiversity organised by the British government in London in January, Robert Watson, former head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned that damage to the natural environment was approaching "a point of no return", a familiar phrase in the climate change debate. More... Source: SciDev.net

 
Fri 5 Feb 10
IYB: Statement and Recommendations from the UNESCO Science-Policy Conference
Over 250 participants celebrated the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB) at the UNESCO IYB launch conference, 25-29 January, Paris. The BioNET Secretariat led the organisation of "The biodiversity knowledge base" session of the conference in collaboration with UNESCO and in cooperation with the chair of the GTI coordinating body. Professor Randy Thaman (University of South Pacific and BioNET-PACINET) was among the excellent speakers and panelists who contributed. The results are summarised in the Taxonomy section of the conference Statement and Recommendations. More...

 
Tue 2 Feb 10
South Africa launches biodiversity information portal
The South African National Biodiversity Institute has launched an online biodiversity information portal to mark the start of the International Year of Biodiversity. The Biodiversity Advisor will be a user-friendly guide for developers, planners and scientists wanting to access information such as the distribution of a particular species across South Africa. More... Source: SciDev.net

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Fungus warns of forest pest
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