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DISCUSSION "THE MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT: ECOSYSTEMS AND
HUMAN WELL-BEING"
During the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South
Africa there is an opportunity to hear an overview of progress in this
global scientific endeavor to assess the continuing ability of ecosystems
worldwide to provide the goods and services that sustain development.
Three international conventions (the Conventions on Biological Diversity,
the Convention to Combat Desertification and the Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands), five UN agencies, a large number of governmental and non-governmental
institutions and hundreds of top scientists participate in this effort.
The event will take place on August 26 at the Wild Olive Room in the
Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development
at Ubuntu Village, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Anchailine caves featured in the bermuda sun
The IBOY project Exploration and Conservation of Anchialine Faunas
was featured in the newspaper article "Underground wonders now
just a click away."
new website for Indigenous Honeybees in the Himalayas announced
A new website for the IBOY project Indigenous Honeybees in the Himalayas:
A community based approach to conserving biodiversity and increasing farm
productivity has been announced. Please visit at http://www.icimod.org/ihbees
MEET SOME TROGLODYTES
The IBOY project Exploraration
and Conservation of Anchialine Faunas has been featured in the Netwatch
section of Science
296(5570): 987.
NEW VERSION OF AMPHIBIAWEB ANNOUNCED
A new version of AmphibiaWeb has recently been launched. The new AmphibiaWeb
has posted a “Watch List” of extinct and threatened amphibians
in order to increase communication among scientists and the public.
For more information:
MACROFAUNA - CALL FOR DATA TO ANALYZE WORLDWIDE TRENDS
The Macrofauna project estimates that over 700 soil macrofaunal communities
throughout the world have been sampled using the standard or slightly
modified TSBF methodology. To capture this data for a new and more comprehensive
analysis of worldwide trends in macrofauna distribution, biomass, density
according to regional and vegetation factors, a new database has been
created with a revised list of parameters and variables.
Macrofauna is calling for researchers with experience and knowledge in
soil macrofauna to help populate the database by either submitting raw
data or the references where the data can be found. The intellectual property
rights of all contributors will be protected. Contributors will be considered
a participant in the Macrofauna database construction project, and will
be sent a database Agreement Form for the access and use of the finalized
database. This Agreement Form proposes that any publication based on contributed
data will automatically include all contributors and original owners of
the data as co-authors.
Contact: Dr. Patrick Lavelle
For more information:
STICKLEBACK PARASITES WORKSHOP
Dr. David Marcogliese will
present the preliminary findings from the IBOY project Survey
of Stickleback Parasites in a workshop at the International Congress
of Parasitology, Vancouver, Canada. Many of the project’s participants
will gather at this workshop to discuss the project’s progress, examine
data acquired to date, and develop project planning and directions for
the future.
Also at the International Congress
of Parasitology, Vancouver: On August 9, a plenary session co-organized
by Dr. David Marcogliese, will address “Biodiversity Implications
for Parasitology.” Associated sub-plenaries will address “Parasitology
and Biodiversity in an age of Discovery” (August 6), “Biodiversity
and Global Change” (August 7), and “The Changing Management
of Wildlife Diseases” (August 9). For more information see http://www.venuewest.com/icopa/scipgm.htm
DECLINING
AMPHIBIANS: ON THE VERGE OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE - Lecture and
Reception with Dr. James Hanken, May 9, 2002
Join Harvard Professor of Biology James Hanken for a discussion about
amphibians -- frogs, salamanders, and their cousins, that have occupied
Earth since well before the dawn of dinosaurs. Hanken, who will become
director of Harvard's MCZ in July, describes how the evolutionary success
of amphibians is threatened by a recent, steep decline in their worldwide
population due to habitat destruction, disease, pesticide pollution, global
warming, and increased UV radiation. Hanken also illustrates how amphibians
can be used to develop strategies to help save our planet -- strategies
he seeks to implement in his role as Chair of the Declining
Amphibian Populations Task Force, an international effort established
by the World Conservation Union. The lecture will take place at the Harvard
Museum of Natural History as part of the US National Explore
Your World! Biodiversity Month.
JOIN THE
US NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY MONTH - MAY 2002
FIRST MARBENA E-CONFERENCE - April 22-May 3, 2002
Open invitation to participate in an e-conference on Marine Biodiversity
in Europe: European heritage under threat: Marine Biodiversity in Mediterranean
Ecosystems. The conference follows from the MARBENA project (a EU-FP5
project), which is connected with the BIOMARE concerted action, itself
an initiative of the European Marine Research Stations Network MARS. The
results of the conference will be presented at the European Platform for
Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS) meeting under the Spanish EU Presidency.
GUAYANA NATURE IN THE CARONÍ RIVER PARKS CD-ROM FEATURED AT INTERNATIONAL
BOOK FAIRS - April 24-May 5, 2002
The IBOY Satellite Project Venezuelan Guayana Nature in the Caroní
River Parks CD-ROM, will be participating, in its official representation
of Venezuela, in the 15th Feria
Internacional del Libro de Bogotá (Colombia International Book
Fair) from April 24 to May 6, and in the V Feria
Internacional del Libro de Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic International
Book Fair) from April 25 to May 5. The project will be shown at an interactive
kiosk.
CHARTING AND DOCUMENTING THE
WORLD’S ANTS AND SOCIAL WASP FEATURED IN ARTICLES
For more information:
VENEZUELAN GUAYANA NATURE IN THE CARONÍ RIVER PARKS CD-ROM
WINS AWARD
The IBOY project Venezuelan Guayana Nature in the Caroní River
Parks CD-ROM placed second in the Digital Books category of the Premio
Calidad Editorial 2001 contest. This annual award is given by the Centro
Nacional del Libro (CENAL), and is a prestigious Venezuelan editorial
prize. CENAL selected the CD-ROM to represent Venezuela at international
book fairs.
For more information:
EVOLUTION
AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF DEEP SEA VENT AND DEEP SEA INVERTEBRATES - SCIENCE
February 14, 2002 - van Dover, C.L. et al. (2002) Evolution and Biogeography
of Deep Sea Vent and Deep Sea Invertebrates. Science 295(5558): 1253-1257.
The 1977 discovery of deep sea vents and their attendant complex communities,
based on microbial chemo autotrophic reduction, greatly expanded understanding
of the limits to life on Earth. This review is a contribution to IBOY
as part of the project "Biodiversity
in deep-sea chemosynthetic communities."
APPLY FOR NATIONAL
WILDLIFE FEDERATION GRANT
The grant cycle for National Wildlife Federation, Keep the Wild Alive's
Species Recovery Fund '02 is now open. 10 grants, each between $3000-$7000,
will be given out this year for on-the-ground projects that directly improve
conditions for the endangered species highlighted in the campaign. Deadline
for the application is February 15th, 2002.
Declining frogs and toads in North America (U.S., Canada, and Mexico
only) are eligible for funding this year. Complete information on the
Species Recovery Fund is available at www.nwf.org/wildalive.
Please contact YinLan Zhang (202) 797-6892 or email zhang@nwf.org
with any questions.
IBOY SYMPOSIUM
AT THE 2002 AAAS ANNUAL MEETING AND SCIENCE INNOVATION EXPOSITION - February
15, 2002, Boston, USA
Leaders of six IBOY projects will present their latest findings at the
symposium Biodiversity Science and Global Research: The International
Biodiversity Observation Year, February 15, 2002, at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting and Science
Innovation, Boston, USA. Biodiversity loss is the quintessential global
problem, with local loss of biodiversity having regional and global impacts.
Recognition of the interconnections between biodiversity, ecology and
economics at local and global scales represents a paradigm shift in our
understanding of the world. This symposium demonstrates how IBOY projects
are gathering data from across these disciplines and scales to advance
knowledge and conservation of biodiversity. Dr. Richard Mack will report
the on-going efforts of the international team that is assessing the rate
of spread, geographic extent and impact of invasive species. Dr. Walter
Reid will describe the initial progress and findings of the Millennium
Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year, international scientific assessment
of the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the response
options for addressing undesired change. Dr. Oliver Ryder will examine
the role of DNA research in biodiversity monitoring, assessment and conservation
and report the progress of a global initiative to develop DNA Banks
for Endangered Species. Dr. David Wake will report on AmphibiaWeb,
a web-based informatics system aiming to provide accurate information
on the conservation status of every amphibian species. Scientists from
across the world are volunteering data for AmphibiaWeb and by organizing
information in one location, AmphibiaWeb is dramatically enhancing
knowledge of overall global amphibian populations. Dr. Diana Wall will
report the preliminary findings of the first world-wide, multi-network
collaborative experiment to assess patterns of litter biodiversity across
biomes and the latitudinal gradient, the Global Litter Invertebrate
Decomposition Experiment (GLIDE). Dr. Thomas Lovejoy will describe
the development of the Amazonia GIS System, an integrative information
source on the environment and development in the Amazon basin. Together,
the presentations provide an overview of diverse efforts that are bringing
add-on value to local-scale data, by compiling it to develop urgently
needed information on large-scale biodiversity patterns and trends and
innovative approaches to biodiversity conservation.
The latest information from another IBOY Core Network Project, the Ocean
Biogeographical Information System (OBIS), will be presented by Dr.
J. Frederick Grassle at a separate symposium at the AAAS Annual meeting,
The Census of Marine Life: Challenges in Biodiversity, on February 17,
2002.
MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEM
ASSESSMENT SEEKS NOMINATIONS FOR EXPERTS OR REVIEWERS
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is seeking nominations of social
and natural scientists to participate as experts or reviewers in the MA
process. The deadline for receipt of author nominations is December
15, 2001. Nominations for reviewers will be accepted through August
1, 2002.
The MA is a path-breaking international assessment that will meet decision-makers'
needs for scientific information on the consequences of ecosystem change
for human well-being and on the response options available to address
undesired changes. As a 'multi-scale' assessment, the MA will seek to
inform the global findings with information and perspectives from the
local, national and regional scale, and inform local findings with a global
context. The MA is designed to meet a portion of the assessment needs
of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention to Combat Desertification,
Wetlands Convention and other users including the private sector, civil
society, and indigenous peoples.
IBOY NEWSLETTER - SECOND
ISSUE
The Newsletter contains information
on upcoming activities of IBOY Core Network Projects and of the IBOY Secretariat
including international meetings, significant publications and field courses.
OCEAN OASIS WINS
AWARD
Summerhays Films, Inc., the
San Diego Natural History Museum and PRONATURA are pleased to announce
that their large format film Ocean Oasis has been selected as the "Best
Theatrical Program" at the bi-annual 2001 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film
Festival. The award is given to, "the best natural history program
produced for large-format or conventional motion picture theaters that
most effectively advances an appreciation of the natural world…"
and was presented on Saturday evening, September 30, at Jackson Hole.
Jackson is one of the premiere film festivals for natural history films
worldwide. The 16 winning programs represent a very select group, judged
from a field of over 650 film entries.
For more information:
WATER,
ENERGY, AND CARBON CYCLES IN TERRESTRIAL SYSTEMS: LOCAL-SCALE OBSERVATIONS
THROUGH FLUXNET AND OTHER MICROMETEOROLOGICAL TOWER SITES: December
10-14, 2001
Leaders of the IBOY
Core Network Project FLUXNET, who are examining the metabolic diversity
of ecosystems, will sponsor a symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American
Geophysical Union, December 10-14, 2001. The Symposium, entitled "Water,
Energy and Carbon Cycles in Terrestrial Systems: Local scale observations
through Fluxnet and other micrometeorological tower sites," will:
- provide a forum for the
ecologists, atmospheric scientists, micrometeorologists, and climatologists
can communicate with each other on issues that require them to work
together
- provide an opportunity for
the global tower flux community to review scientific adcances and identify
challenging issues and future directions
- publicize the unique flux
datasets collected through Fluxnet and other micrometeorological tower
sites
For more details see the symposium
abstract (.pdf), visit the AGU website,
or contact Lianhong Gu (lianhong@nature.berkeley.edu)
or Dennis Baldocchi (baldocchi@nature.berkeley.edu).
DAPTF SEED GRANTS
2002
DAPTF is pleased to announce
a new round of Seed Grants for 2002. These are intended as one-time awards
of between $500 and $2000 for the support or initiation of research that
furthers the DAPTF's mission to determine the nature, extent and causes
of amphibian population declines. There are three categories in this year's
round, reflecting generous financial support from Conservation International
(CI) and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Amphibian Research and
Monitoring Initiative (ARMI). We will accept applications in Spanish,
Portugese and French, as well as English. Deadline December 15, 2001.
ASSEMBLING
THE TREE OF LIFE SYMPOSIUM: May 30 - June 1, 2002
It has been over a decade since
there has been a general synthesis of knowledge about the history of life.
Recent years have seen remarkable advances in our understanding of organismal
relationships, thus the time is ripe to take stock of the state of current
knowledge.
The Tree of Life Symposium
will be held at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, May
30 - June 1, 2002. It will include three full days of scientific papers
summarizing current understanding of phylogenetic relationships of all
major groups of organisms. In addition, a series of plenary lectures will
address the importance of phylogenetic knowledge for advances in human
health, genomics, developmental and comparative biology, as well as the
implications of phylogenetic knowledge for understanding humanities place
in nature. The Tree of Life Symposium is a product of the International
Biodiversity Observation Year.
STATUS SEMINAR
AND WORKSHOP OF THE BIOLOG PROGRAM OF THE GERMAN MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND
EDUCATION AND OF THE IBOY PROJECT BIOTA AFRICA
During December 5-7, more then 300 researchers and representatives of
funding institutions will meet at the Science Centre at Bonn to review
the present status of the Biodiversity Program BIOLOG and the IBOY project
BIOTA Africa with its 38 subprojects. The two subsequent days, December
8-9 will be used for an updated discussion of the challenges and problems
linked to the definition of standards in biodiversity monitoring. Both
meetings will bring together scientists from central Europe and some 30
colleagues from African countries and other continents. Outputs of the
meeting will be a printed status report on all BIOLOG programs and a separate
report on the Workshop.
RADIO SHOW TO FEATURE IBOY
PROJECTS
During October, the radio show
Pulse of the Planet, broadcast over 300 stations around the world,
will broadcast the first in a series of programs on IBOY's projects. On
October 1-5, five programs on Inventory of Caterpillars, led Dr.
Daniel Janzen, will be broadcast. On October 22-26, five programs on Impact
of Biological Invasions led by Drs. Mark Lonsdale, Montserrat Vila
and Richard Mack will be broadcast. Jim Metzner, host of Pulse of the
Planet, recorded these interviews with IBOY project leaders at the meeting
"Building Bridges for Biodiversity: The first meeting of IBOY project
leaders" which took place at the US Fish and Wildlife Service's National
Wildlife Visitor Center, Maryland, USA, June 14 - 16, 2001. Watch for
more stories about IBOY Projects on Pulse of the Planet during 2001 and
2002.
M@RBLE - ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE
ON MARINE BIODIVERSITY IN EUROPE
October 8-29, 2001
This e-conference is intended
to inventory, synthesize and report the opinion of the European community
(scientists, science programmers, funding agencies, decision-makers, managers,
and the public at large) on three issues which are considered important
for the development and application of marine biodiversity research:
- what are the main scientific
problems, locally and on the European and global scale, and what is
the knowledge required to understand and predict patterns of marine
biodiversity in Europe?
- how must we organize marine
biodiversity research in the changing Europe of tomorrow?
- what is needed for the application
of marine biodiversity research in management and protection of the
marine environment?
More information:
BIODIVERSITY: ITS IMPORTANCE
TO HUMAN HEALTH
October 26 - October 30, 2001.
Pocantico, New York, USA
Leaders of the Project Biodiversity:
Its Importance to Human Health will meet to develop and review chapters
for a book that will be published by Cambridge University Press. The meeting
will also begin work on two other dimensions of this project: The Executive
Summary to be presented to the World Summit on Sustainable Development,
September 2002 and the online technical report. Biodiversity: It's
importance to Human Health is a Project of the Center for Health and
the Global Environment at the Harvard Medical School, and is implemented
under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United
Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
FIFI 2001, 4TH INTERNATIONAL
INSECT FILM FESTIVAL
From the 17 to the 21th of
October 2001, the FIFI will be held in the historical town of Narbonne
and the project of Regional & Natural Parc of la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée
and in the Agronomic Sciences University in Gembloux (Belgium) with the
participation of Invertebrate scientists of the European Bern Convention.
For more information:
IBOY NEWSLETTER - FIRST
ISSUE
The Newsletter contains information
on upcoming activities of IBOY Core Network Projects and of the IBOY Secretariat
including international meetings, significant publications and field courses.
FIRST EVER SUBMERSIBLE
EXPEDITION TO THE DEEP-SEA CHEMOSYNTHETIC COMMUNITIES OF BLAKE RIDGE -
September 21-30. 2001
Marine Biologist, Cindy Lee
Van Dover of the College of William and Mary, USA, will lead an expedition
to survey extraordinary life forms that get their energy "chemosynthetically"
from chemical seeps at the floor of the ocean. These strange and poorly
known communities, including mussel beds, were photographed on the Blake
Ridge several years ago. This expedition will make the first submersible
visits to the site, to describe the site and sample mussel beds for comparisons
of biodiversity observed at other seep and vent sites. A web site with
daily updates during the dive series will be available at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/deepeast01/deepeast01.html.
INTERNATIONAL FIELD BIOLOGY
COURSE 2001: August 29 - September 30, 2001
The field course, held in the
Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia, will provide an introduction to different
aspects of the study of ecology in a tropical forest. The course will
give students hands-on experience in a variety of forest habitats found
throughout the region, and also provide training from plant and insect
sampling to modern chemical and molecular techniques. Also, the course
will provide training in standardized biodiversity inventory methods.
Students from Southeast Asia and around the world will participate and
course instructors will be drawn from the large body of experienced scientists
in FRIM, CTFS,
and DIWPA.
DENVER MUSEUM OF
NATURE AND SCIENCE FREE DAY
On September 21, admission
to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science will be free, as it celebrates
the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY). Scientists from
Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL)
will be at the museum to help celebrate the IBOY. Using interactive displays
and demonstrations, NREL’s scientists and students working on ecosystems
ranging from Colorado lakes and prairies to African Savannahs and Antarctic
deserts will be on hand to explain how state of the art science is being
used to help understand biodiversity. Visitors to the Free Day will be
able to compare NREL’s contemporary biodiversity research with historical
biodiversity research featured in the visiting exhibition “Voyages
of Discovery.” Members of the IBOY Secretariat, housed at NREL, will
be there to answer general questions about biodiversity and the IBOY.
INTERNATIONAL MEETING TO
EXAMINE IMPACTS OF INVASIVE SPECIES: September 19 - 22, Barcelona, Spain
On September 19 - 22, 2001
leading international experts on invasive species will come together to
share and analyze data on invasive species, in order to develop a more
comprehensive picture of the global impact of terrestrial invasive species.
The workshop "Impacts of biotic invasions in terrestrial ecosystems:
spatial assessment, base rates and consequences" is a Core Network
Project of IBOY and has been sponsored by the European Science Foundation
and will contribute to the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE)
project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) and and
to the Global Invasive Species Program (GISP).
CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ABOUT INSECTS
FIFI 2001, The fourth biannual
of the International Film Festival about Insects and other small animals,
labelled within the campaign framework "Europe, a mutual patrimony"
of the European Council, will take place in Narbonne from 17 -
21 October 2001 on the occasion of the National Science Holiday.
All the registrations, film
submission guidelines and information requests must be addressed to :
Office of the Festival FIFI,
OPIE LR, City hall; F-11 100 Narbonne, FRANCE
Tel.: 33 (0)4 68 42 11 04
Fax: 33 (0)4 68 57 27 49
Email: festival.fifi@wanadoo.fr
SYMPOSIUM AND CEREMONY
TO LAUNCH DIWPA-IBOY ASSESSMENTS IN FRESHWATER SYSTEMS - September 9,
2001
At Lake Biwa Museum, Otsu,
Japan, Drs. H. Kawanabe, T. Iwakuma (Professor, Hokkaido University),
H. Morino (Professor Ibaraki University), K. Nakai (Like Biwa Museum)
and Tohru Nakashizuka (University of Tokyo) will present lectures about
biodiversity and DIWPA-IBOY. Video demonstrations of biodiversity observation
methods will be given.
WORKSHOP ON BIOLOGICAL
SPECIMENS AND DATA MANAGEMENT FOR BIODIVERSITY STUDIES: August
30 - September 1, 2001
This workshop is the last of
a series of preparatory meetings/workshops to implement the IBOY, and
focuses on handling specimens and primary data for successive taxonomic
studies to implement DIWPA-IBOY in the context of ongoing global projects
such as Global Biodiversity Information facility (GBIF) and Global Taxonomy
Initiative (GTI). The workshop also aims at promoting collaboration with
existing regional and international biodiversity programs, with which
DIWPA-IBOY participants can share the interests in order to achieve successful
biodiversity observation, close collaboration among taxonomists, systematists,
ecologists and museums be established.
BIOBLITZ DAY AT THE NATIONAL
BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES
PUBLIC EVENT: Join the National
Botanic Garden of Wales, on Friday, July 27, 2001, is hosting a Biodiversity
Blitz Day where an investigation of the many wild plants, animals and
insects that live in the Botanic Gardens will take place. Experts from
the National Museum and Galleries of Wales will be on hand to indentify
findings and answer questions.
AMPHIBIAN POPULATIONS DECLINE:
2001 SSAR/HL Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, July 30-31, 2001
From a worrisome notion ten
years ago, it is now abundantly recognized that amphibian populations
are in worldwide decline. There are numerous causes, some hitherto unsuspected,
for both the decline of numbers of individuals and the losses of populations.
The imminent loss of the species they work on is the single greatest problem
for amphibian biologists today.
Since the problem of amphibian
declines was first raised, an international research effort has ensued,
mobilized to a considerable extent around the world by the IUCN/SSC Declining
Amphibian Populations Task Force (DAPTF) and its network of national
and regional Working Groups. On July 30-31, 2001, an international symposium
will bring together what has been learned and discuss that new knowledge.
This multidisciplinary conference,
an IBOY Core Network Project, will focus on applications involving the
detection and understanding of long-term changes in natural and disturbed
environmental systems. It will review methods of environmental change
detection across different disciplines by bringing together scientists
and stakeholders concerned with monitoring in terrestrial, freshwater,
marine, hydrological, atmospheric, and social systems. Biodiversity will
be a key element of the conference program. The conference will also cover
the general need for observing systems that address the requirements of
major international conventions such as the Convention on Biological Diversity.
On July 17, there will be a special session dedicated to the IBOY "Global
Change and Biodiversity."
MILLENNIUM ECOSYSTEMS ASSESSMENT
LAUNCH AND THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY, June 5, 2001
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
will be officially launched on June 5, 2001. June 5 is the World Environment
Day (June 5th) which this year celebrates "The World Wide Web of
Life." The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan will help
launch the Millennium Assessment at a press conference at the U.N. Headquarters
in New York. The Millennium Assessment is also the focus of activities
planned for June 4 in Torino, Italy; for June 6 in Tokyo, Japan ; and
June 15 in Beijing, China.
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
is a four-year program to assess the condition of ecosystems, future scenarios
of ecosystem change and options for response. For more information see
http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/IBOY/goods_services.html#millenium
IBOY is marking the launch
of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and the World Environment Day by
publishing an audio interview with Dr. Walter
Reid, Acting Director of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, on the
IBOY Kid's page. Click here for the interview
INTERNATIONAL DAY
FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, May 22, 2001
May 22 is the International
Day for Biological Diversity. This year, the theme for the day is "Biodiversity
and Management of Alien Invasive Species." The United Nations is
celebrating the day by highlighting the threat of invasive alien species
to biodiversity.
The IBOY is marking the day
by publishing
an interview with Dr. Mark Lonsdale, the co-leader of an international
project to investigate "The Impacts of Invasive species". In
this interview, children can learn more about what an invasive species
is and the threats they pose for the Earth's biodiversity. Dr. Lonsdale
also explains why biodiversity is important, what interests him most about
biodiversity and how children can learn more and get involved. Click
here for the interview
- Click
here for more information on the IBOY Core Network Project "The
Impacts of Invasive Species"
- Click
here for information on how the Convention on Biological Diversity
is marking the International Day of Biological Diversity, including
a poster and a press release and links to further information on invasive
species
- Click
here for information on how The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
is marking the International Day for Biological Diversity, including
a list of the world's 100 worst invasive species, ideas for celebrating
the day, and links to further information on invasive species
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