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Ecological globalization (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2008 at 09:00:51
| Ecosystems are constantly exchanging materials through the movement of air in the atmosphere, the flow of water in rivers and the migration of animals across the landscape. People, however, have also established themselves as another major driver of connectivity among ecosystems. In the June 2008 Special Issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, titled “Continental-scale ecology in an increasingly connected world,” ecologists discuss how human influences interact with natural processes to influence connectivity at the continental scale. The authors conclude that networks of large-scale experiments are needed to predict long-term ecological change. |
The Lacey Act: Protecting American Wildlife (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2008 at 09:00:51
| The recently passed Farm Bill included an amendment to the Lacey Act which extends protection to plants and trees illegally harvested outside of the U.S. TheLacey Act, named after congressman, Rep. John Lacey, the Congressman who introduced it, and signed into law in 1900, authorized the Secretary of the Interior to restore "game and other birds...where where they have become scarce or extinct and to regulate the introduction of birds and animals in areas where they had not existed." |
UN 2010 biodiversity target in the balance (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2008 at 09:00:51
| The biggest ever United Nations conference held to tackle worldwide biodiversity loss closed today without producing a clear roadmap to achieve the 2010 target to substantially reduce biodiversity loss, WWF said.
The 9th Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP9) held in Bonn, covering 191 countries and nearly 7000 participants, needed to achieve significant progress and to provide the necessary impetus for countries to implement biodiversity conservation measures and turn round the rate of biodiversity loss worldwide.
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New WTO Fisheries Subsidies Document Creates Path for Negotiations (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 06-02-2008 at 09:00:51
| The World Trade Organization (WTO) today issued a new working document by Rules Negotiating Group Chairman Guillermo Valles Galmes. The document covers all areas of the Rules group negotiations, which includes fisheries subsidies, general subsidies and anti-dumping. The document provides a description of the views and proposals of WTO members related to the Rules text that was presented by Chairman Valles in November 2007. |
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