Logging ravaging the Solomon Islands forests
| | HONIARA, Solomon Islands, 25 May 2019 (AT) - The Solomon Islands is the biggest exporter, after Papua New Guinea, of round logs to China, where they are processed and sold as tropical hardwood products around the world. |
France acknowledges Polynesian islands forced into nuclear tests
| | PARIS, France, 24 May 2019 (Telegraph) - France has officially acknowledged for the first time that French Polynesians were effectively forced into accepting almost 200 nuclear tests conducted over a 30-year period, and that it is responsible for compensating them for the illnesses caused by the fallout. |
How the Galapagos Islands became a guilt-free paradise
| | LONDON, UK, 24 May 2019 (Independent) - Since Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species in 1859, based on his observations during his 1835 visit to the islands – and with July 2019 marking 60 years since 97 per cent of the Galapagos Islands were protected as a national park – this equatorial archipelago has become a global icon for wildlife enthusiasts. |
Exposing coal-fueled politics in Indonesia
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 24 May 2019 (Mongabay) - In the days leading up to the Indonesian presidential election in April, a documentary film exposed how the two candidates were deeply tied to the country’s coal oligarchs. |
Skye becomes huge hit on social media site Instagram
| | GLASGOW, UK, 24 May 2019 (Herald) - The Isle of Skye has become a huge hit on the social media site Instagram after research showed it is the top European road trip destination with nearly double the hits of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. |
Midway Atoll to be bombarded with rodenticide
| | NEW YORK, US, 24 May 2019 (Guardian) - The US government is moving ahead with a plan to strafe Midway with poison aimed at eradicating mice that are on a deadly rampage through one of the world’s most important sites for seabirds. |
Farmers have less leisure time than hunter-gatherers
| | CAMBRIDGE, UK, 23 May 2019 (SPX) - Hunter-gatherers in the Philippines who adopt farming work around ten hours a week longer than their forager neighbours, a new study suggests, complicating the idea that agriculture represents progress. |
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GREENING THE ISLANDS |
 | | Observatory Island meeting 23-24 April, 2019, Helgoland, Germany |
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ISLAND UND HALLIG KONFERENZ |
| | First German Green Island conference 25-26 April, 2019, Helgoland, Germany |
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RETI |
| | Symposium promoting intercultural dialogue and social cohesion on islands 29 April-2 May 2019, Canary Islands |
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PRP |
| | Pacific Resilience Meeting 1-3 May, 2019, Suva, Fiji |
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CLEAN ENERGY FOR EU ISLANDS |
| | 3rd Clean Energy for EU Islands Forum 14-16 May, 2019, Stockholm, Sweden |
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SOCIETY FOR ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | Third Island Biology conference 8-13 July, 2019, Reunion |
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SICRI |
| | 15th ISIC conference Island Festivals & Music Tourism 9-13 July, 2019, Kingston, Jamaica |
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SCB |
| | 29th International Congress for Conservation Biology 21-25 July, 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
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CEST |
| | 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology 4-7 Sept, 2019, Rhodes, Greece |
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NAF & CRRF |
| | Sustainable Communities conference 1-4 Oct, 2019, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Islands in the Belt and Road Initiative conference 9-10 Nov, 2019, Fuzhou, China |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 10-21 June, 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVII conference 22-26 June, 2020, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS conference 30 Nov-3 Dec, 2020, Nuuk, Greenland |
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