Rare bird being driven to extinction by poaching
| | JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 28 September 2016 (Guardian) - The helmeted hornbill, found mainly in Indonesia, Borneo and Thailand, has a solid red beak which sells as a “red ivory” on the black market, for several times the price of elephant ivory. |
Cuban crocodiles pose conservation conundrum
| | LONDON, UK, 28 September 2016 (Nature) - Dozens of spotted baby crocodiles sit as still as garden statues. Then, suddenly, the animals snap to life, and begin ambling around the Zapata Swamp Captive Breeding Farm in Cuba’s swampy Matanzas province. |
Madagascar’s largest tortoise could become extinct in 2 years
| | JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 27 September 2016 (Mongabay) - Fewer than 100 ploughshare tortoises remain in the wild, conservationists estimate, and continued poaching of these animals for the illegal pet trade is likely to wipe out the last few individuals in the next two to three years. |
Whalesong, interrupted
| | SAN FRANCISCO, US, 23 September 2016 (Mongabay) - Crossbow in hand, Jo Marie Acebes strides the deck of the outrigger fishing boat she has refitted for tracking whales off the Philippines’ Babuyan Islands. |
Red tape locking SIDS out of billions in climate funds
| | LONDON, UK, 20 September 2016 (Guardian) - Many small developing countries are so administratively stretched that they cannot fill in all the complex forms needed to access climate money to help them to reduce emissions and adapt to increasing global temperatures, rising sea levels and extreme weather. |
Let mangroves recover to protect coasts
| | LONDON, UK, 19 September 2016 (BBC) - Allowing mangrove forests to recover naturally result in more resilient habitats that benefit both wildlife and people, say conservationists. |
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PSC |
 | 23rd Pacific Science Congress 13-17 June, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan
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SICRI |
| 12th International Small Island Cultures conference 17-20 June, 2016, Naha, Okinawa
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GIPCN |
| Island Biology conference 18-22 July, 2016, Azores, Portugal
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ICCIP |
| Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region 26-28 July, 2016, Lautoka, Fiji
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IUCN |
| World Conservation Congress 1-10 Sept, 2016, Hawaii
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CIEEM |
| Protecting marine and coastal areas in the UK Overseas Territories conference 21 Sept, 2016, London, UK
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RETI |
| Island Tourism Symposium 18-19 Nov, 2016, Valletta, Malta
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| Rethinking Remoteness and Peripherality conference 16-19 January 2017, Longyearbyen, Svalbard
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THE ECONOMIST |
| World Ocean Summit 22-24 Feb, 2017, Bali, Indonesia
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| Local Sustainable Development and Global Challenges conference 15-20 May, 2017, Sakhalin, Russia
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ISISA |
| Islands of the World XV conference 2-8 July, 2017, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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ISSG |
| Island Invasives conference 10-14 July, 2017, Univ of Dundee, Scotland
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FEC |
| 7th International Conference on Environmental Future - Humans and Island environments 17-21 July, 2017,
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