Green groups call for scrapping of loan offer for Borneo road project
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 20 October 2021 (Mongabay) - The Asian Development Bank is considering a $300 million loan proposal from the Indonesian government to fund a road project in Borneo. Environmental groups around the world have urged the ADB to impose stricter environmental and social requirements for the project to reduce its expected impacts on the environment and the Indigenous communities living in the region. |
Irish island is looking for new residents from the United States
| | LONDON, UK, 20 October 2021 (IP) - Arranmore, the idyllic island 5km off the coast of Co. Donegal is looking for new residents to boost its population. Its population has dropped to just 469 people by 2019 and the island had written open letters to the people of the United States and Australia, urging them to relocate there. The island has undergone huge technological advancement and has become the recipient of Ireland’s very first offshore digital hub. |
Project maps soundscape of northern Adriatic
| | LOSINJ, Croatia, 19 October 2021 (Mongabay) - The bottlenose dolphin population of Croatia’s Lošinj archipelago is increasingly faced with problems from noise disturbance produced by boats, particularly in the summer tourist season. |
Changes to global fisheries subsidies could level the playing field
| | MANCHIONEAL, Jamaica, 18 October 2021 (Mongabay) - Community fishers struggle to hold their own against heavily-subsidized foreign fleets. Fisheries subsidies have long given wealthy nations an edge over SIDS like Jamaica that are rich in fishing traditions and natural resources. |
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SPREP |
 | | Pacific Ocean Climate Change Conference 27-29 May, 2020, Apia, Samoa |
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SICRI |
| | Island Feminisms Conference Jan-April 2021, Hilo, Hawaii |
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UHI INS |
| | 5th International St Magnus Conference 14-16 April, 2021, Lerwick, Shetland |
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EU ISLANDS SECRETARIAT |
| | Clean Energy for EU Islands Forum 20-21 May, 2021 |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVII conference 14-18 June, 2021, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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AEGEAN UNIV |
| | 'The island–insularity, archipelagos–a geophilosophical issue' A Summer University, 10-14 July, 2020, Rhodes, Greece |
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UNIV OF MAURITIUS |
| | Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines conference 4-6 August, 2020, Reduit, Mauritius |
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IUCN |
| | World Conservation Congress 3-11 Sept, 2021, Marseille, France |
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COP 26 |
| | UN Climate Change Conference 1-12 Nov, 2021, Glasgow, UK |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVIII conference 13-17 June, 2022, Zadar, Croatia |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 6-16 June, 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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