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The biodiversity crisis is more than extinctions
Published to coincide with the so called United Nations Biodiversity Conference (officially: The tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties) in Nagoya, Japan October 18-29, 2010, are a number of studies and reports on the current state of biodiversity. The most striking is a new assessment of the vertebrate species (that’s us and anything [...]
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A first for the Earth: The Census of Marine Life
From 5,400 meters deep, the copepod ceratonotus steiningeri…credit: Jan Michels Creature pictures like the one above get our attention. There will be many such pictures popping up in the popular media for a few days. Let’s call them heralds for a major scientific achievement: the first global Census of Marine Life. The census is the [...]
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New publication: Atlas of Biodiversity Risk
Combining the results of 366 authors from 43 countries, the Atlas of Biodiversity Risk is the first publication of its kind – a geographical summary of the major factors that lead to loss of biological diversity (also sometimes referred to as species loss). The atlas is available only in printed form at 99Euro + Shipping [...]
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Governments fail biodiversity pledge…
In 2002 most of the world’s governments agreed to a target: The rate of biodiversity loss would decrease by 2010. Now it is 2010; a new study published in the magazine Science says: We compiled 31 indicators to report on progress toward this target. Most indicators of the state of biodiversity (covering species’ population trends, [...]
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Species Loss: It is statistics but not a game
Most biologists will tell you that the Earth is losing species faster than it is replacing them. One prominent biologist, Simon Stuart, chair of the Species Survival Commission for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has said about two new reports coming out in March (2010): “Measuring the rate at which new [...]
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Half of all primates threatened by extinction
Homo Sapiens may lose many members of its order (primates). In fact, according to a newly released report, Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2008-2010 by the International Union for the Conservation of Natural Resources (IUCN) nearly half (48%) of all primates are threatened by extinction. The report fingers the usual suspects: [...]
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The Nagoya Protocol: More or less biodiversity