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• Fall in rice strains highlights Chinas biodiversity gap

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 511
  Shanshan Li in SciDev.net : The number of Chinas rice varieties has dramatically decreased, raising fears about the countrys food security and biodiversity. China had 46,000 rice varieties in the 1950s, but this plummeted to just 1,000 in 2006, according to a Chinese study published in BioScience this month ...
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• A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits with baited breath to see how greenhouse gas emissions from forests might be included. Despite the high powered nature of these important global decisions, the success of REDD will ultimately be decided by humble ...
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• Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  (Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program , celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the ...
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• Forever is a very long time indeed

  
  Marginal Damage — Authority: 133
  Market Designer: a grave problem of-supply and demand Wanna rent an apartment – forever? Grave sites, once sold and occupied, are intended to be occupied for a very long time, and their sale can’t easily be negotiated if more valuable uses turn up. So there is less turnouver than in other kinds of real estate, ...
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• Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the worlds highest carbon emitter, 50 percent of its growth over the last year was ...
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• REDD may increase the cost of conservation of non-forest ecosystems

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Policy-makers designing a climate change mitigation mechanism that will reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) arent doing enough to ensure that the scheme protects biodiversity outside carbon-dense ecosystems, argues an editorial published in Current Biology by a group of scientists.
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• Oceans ability to sequester carbon diminishing

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new study—the first of its kind—has completed an annual accounting of the oceans intake of carbon over the past 250 years, and the news is troubling. According to the study, published in Nature , the oceans ability to sequester carbon is struggling to keep-up with mankinds ever-growing emissions. Since 2000 ...
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• Decision Support Framework (DSF) Team Research Implementation Pl...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  The mission of ORDs Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP) is to provide the information and methods needed by decision-makers to assess the benefits of ecosystem goods and services to human well-being for inclusion in management alternatives. The Decision Support Framework (DSF) team is one of 15 teams that ...
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• Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation [REDD] programs that include landowners will conserve more habitat and ensure greater ecosystem services function than programs that focus solely on protected areas, report researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental ...
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• Coastal habitats may sequester 50 times more carbon than tropical forests by area

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Highly endangered coastal habitats are incredibly effective in sequestering carbon and locking it away in soil, according to a new paper in a report by the IUCN. The paper attests that coastal habitats—such as mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marhses—sequester as much as 50 times the amount of carbon in their soil ...
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• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 136
  The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme http://www.teebweb.org/ [ From Greenwire article ] Investing billions of dollars today to protect threatened ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss could result in huge cost savings in the long-term, according to a ...
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• UNEP: Investing in ecosystem restoration is cost-effective

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 170
  The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has issued a landmark report documenting the cost-effectiveness of investing in natural resource management and ecosystem restoration as a tool for adaptation Read More......( read more )
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• Conservation Scholars: Georgina Mace

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 410
  The Conservation Scholars series highlights leaders in conservation science and includes a small biography, a list of major scientific publications and a Q & A on each person’s particular area of expertise. Our fifteenth Conservation Scholar is a real stalwart in conservation science and its applications – ...
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• Big profit from nature protection

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of the natural world. It says money ploughed into protecting wetlands, coral reefs and forests can bring a hundredfold return on capital. The Economics of ...
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• Countries that invest in conservation will see higher financial returns, argues report

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new report issued by the The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative makes a strong case for valuing the planets ecosystem services. The report calls for investments in "ecological infrastructure" to protect wildlands and the services they provide; market-based valuation of ecosystem services; ...
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• REDD Aint the New Black: 10 Concerns About Paying Countries for Forest Protection

  
  the green skeptic — Authority: 122
  Image via Wikipedia I was asked the other day why I think the UNs Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD) is a flawed, if not bad idea. Here are 10 concerns I have about the REDD scheme: 1.) Ive said it before, but will say it again: Entrusting governments to protect their forests ...
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• New report: boreal forests contain more carbon than tropical forest per hectare

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  A new report states that boreal forests store nearly twice as much carbon as tropical forests per hectare: a fact which researchers say should make the conservation of boreal forests as important as tropical in climate change negotiations. The report from the Canadian Boreal Initiative and the Boreal Songbird ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• A Conference about Water III: Perceptions of Water Use

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 118
  Todd Rasmussen takes questions after his talk at the ESA Millennium Conference.Yesterday’s morning sessions at the ESA Millennium Conference on water and drought wrapped up the keynote talks and moved into posters showcasing social and ecological studies surrounding water use.Denise Fort, a professor of law at the ...
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• A Conference About Water, Part II: Drought and water issues on the big screen

  
  EcoTone — Authority: 118
  Yesterday afternoon at the ESA Millennium Conference on water-ecosystem services, drought, and environmental justice included a varied program of presentations, including two more plenary talks and a reception showcasing case studies on water-ecosystem services, presented in a manner very different for ecological ...
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