Illegal gold mining destroys wetland forest in Madagascar park
| | SAN FRANCISCO, US, 19 February 2019 (Mongabay) - Over the last two years, small crews of miners using rudimentary hand tools have made repeated incursions into Ranomafana National Park in southeastern Madagascar, to dig hundreds of shallow pit mines. |
Mexico to close infamous island penal colony
| | MEXICO CITY, 19 February 2019 (AP) - Mexico will close its infamous Isla Marias prison, the last island penal colony in a hemisphere once dotted with remote island jails like the one depicted in the movie “Papillon.” |
Giant pines a tourist draw, cash cow for Yogyakarta farmers
| | MANGUNAN, Indonesia, 19 February 2019 (Mongabay) - Not long ago, people would come to Mangunan only to tap the giant trunks of reddish pine for sap, used as everything from antiseptic to glue. But in only a few years these columns of giant Sumatran pines have become a well-known tourism attraction in selfie-snapping Indonesia. |
Taxpayers to cop $1.3m Hinchinbrook clean-up bill
| | SYDNEY, Australia, 19 February 2019 (ABC) - In Australia's largest island national park, taxpayers will be forced to spend $1.3 million cleaning up a resort in ruins while the Queensland Government courts companies to build more eco-accommodation on the other side of the island. |
Bulk carrier leaking oil on Solomons Islands reef
| | LONDON, UK, 19 February 2019 (Guardian) - The Solomon Islands prime minister has asked Australia for emergency help cleaning up an environmental disaster after oil spilled from a bulk carrier that ran aground on a coral reef near a world heritage area. |
26 European islands launch clean energy transition
| | BRUSSELS, Belgium, 18 February 2019 (EC) - Today, 26 European islands have officially launched their clean energy transition with the support of the European Commission’s Clean Energy for EU Islands Secretariat. |
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WORLD CAPITAL INSTITUTE |
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RETI |
| | Engaging Islands Symposium 23-28 Nov, 2018, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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UNDP |
| | Sustainable Blue Economy Conference 26-28 Nov, 2018, Nairobi, Kenya |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| Economics & Development in Microstates, Islands & Arctic conference 30 Nov-3 Dec, 2018, Nuuk, Greenland
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ISLAND ARKS |
| 6th symposium 11-15 Feb, 2019, Rottnest Island, Australia
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GES |
| | The Road to GES2019 Caribbean event 14-15 March, 2019, Willemstad, Curacao |
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UPEI |
| | 1st International conference on SIS and SNIJs 26-29 March, 2019, Oranjestad, Aruba |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Silk Road Archipelagos conference 11-12 April, 2019, Macau |
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ISLAND UND HALLIG KONFERENZ |
| | First German Green Island conference 25-26 April, 2019, Helgoland, Germany |
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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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NAF & CRRF |
| | Sustainable Communities conference 1-4 Oct, 2019, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVII conference 22-26 June, 2020, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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