Biodiversity: Kew Perspectives on Biodiversity
Buried well down in the Kew website, but worth a look at Perspectives on Biodiversity - good advocacy for Kew science, including external stakeholders such as CBD and PWC
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Biodiversity: UK government site on Nagoya
HMG have put up a useful communication site on DirectGov - Nine days to Nagoya. Sounds like a film....
Biodiversity UK: National Ecosystem Assessment
Strongly recommend having a look at the draft synthesis for the National Ecosystem Assessment, released yesterday, being led from WCMC for Defra..../ /...The emphasis is very much on ecosystem services, but takes a more detailed and developed approach than the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment for the national scale. Interesting views on trends and status, but also assessment of gaps and needs for development in understanding ecosystem services. What will also be interesting is how this might now contribute to the research direction of Defra and also of NERC/ESRC. I understand that the final report will be launched early 2011.
Biodiversity EU: summary for Nagoya
The European Envirionment Agency has issued a news highlight that makes a useful focus for EU positions, reports and trends, summarising the position in the lead into Nagoya.
Biodiversity research US: NSF Dimensions of biodiversity
Graham has pointed to the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity campaign - 14 new grants looking at ecosystems with an interesting emphasis on micro elements - evolution, services and diversity.
Biodiversity: COP10 starts
Nagoya has kicked off - plenary and various other events are progressing. As expected, key interest in Access and Benefit Sharing, with informal working groups looking at present at compliance, checkpoints and other issues. For detailed reporting of the COP and side events, look at the IISD reporting services or the CBD website for COP10.
Biodiversity policy: ABS research project
Huge amount of background information on Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) in Africa on this Norway, Netherlands, French and German-funded site from the Fridtjof Nansen Insitute: worth browsing.
Biodiversity international: WWF living planet report
WWF 2010 Living Planet Report has been published. Attractive approach to high-level assessment with mapping and visualisation, with current ideas on footprints, biocapacity, ecosystem services, biodiversity economics and other issues represented. There are a range of reports of this type around aimed at policy and, to some extent, public audiences - GEO (next in 2012); the World Resources Report (at the end of 2010); and the Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 (May 2010); and the Human Development report (November 2010), among others.
Biodiversity UK: report on state of the UK's birds 2010
Just issued - the 2010 edition of the State of the UK's Birds from RSPB, BTO, WWT, CCW, JNCC, NE, NIEA and SNH. As with the earlier JNCC score cards, does not look good for farmland or woodland birds, with continuing declines.
The declines in farmland birds are a common pattern across Europe, and contribute to the UK's lack of success on the 2010 targets. Interesting also is the mixed success of BAPs for birds - but for both successful and less successful birds, it is not clear whether it is the BAP that is making the difference, or not. Good overview of the role of NGOs and volunteers for this group.
Biodiversity policy: Banking on biodiversity
Just published, a good entry-level report on biodiversity/economics/poverty from IIED, Birdlife and Pavan Sukhdev - Banking on biodiversity. Free pdf download
Banking on Biodiversity by Dilys Roe, Pavan Sukhdev, David Thomas and Robert Munroe
"We're in the midst of a biodiversity crisis. For those of us in the North, that can seem abstract; for the rural poor in the developing world, it's all too real. Their absolute dependence on the bounty of forests, deserts and coasts means 'biodiversity loss' can mean losing all: food, fuel, building material, medicine, forage, livelihoods and culture.
The good news is that it can work the other way. Poor communities, as long-term stewards of the South's natural riches, are steeped in profound knowledge about them. As this pocketbook shows, working with them can reverse the downward spiral of environmental degradation. By banking on biodiversity, we can protect our natural legacy while tackling poverty locally, nationally and globally."