Bluegrass Wildlife: Living on an island
| | EDGEWOOD, US, 11 October 2026 (KCPSJ) - Stuck on West Sister island in Lake Erie, with only a cockroach-infested, dilapidated lighthouse for shelter, I wondered what the future held. Islands have inherently limited resources, and any potential lifelines depend on distance from the mainland. You cannot get around the limitations of an island. These characteristics are true whether we are talking about an island in the Great Lakes or a tropical paradise near the equator, and the consequences of not understanding them can be catastrophic. What I didn’t realize at the time, however, was how islands can scale up, creating even more important implications. |
Resurrecting a reef oasis
| | BUNDABERG, Australia, 10 October 2026 (ABC) - For thousands of years the tiny island at the southernmost tip of the Great Barrier Reef was alive with cacophonous birdsong. But within a decade of guano miners arriving in force with their picks and shovels in the 1860s, Lady Elliot Island was silent, denuded of all foliage and bereft of the seabirds that once lived there. It remained a barren wasteland for more than 100 years before one family decided to revive it and started planting trees. |
The dispute dividing communities in one Tobago resort
| | ROCKY POINT, Tobago, 10 October 2026 (Guardian) - Plans for a 200-room project on an unspoiled beach have pitted developers against the conservationists fighting for smaller-scale schemes to protect the island’s habitat. |
Expedition hopes to find Amelia Earhart's plane on remote island
| | LONDON, UK, 10 October 2026 (BBC) - A team of researchers are on their way to a remote island to inspect what they think could be the plane wreckage of famed aviator Amelia Earhart. The group, from the US-based Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) and Purdue University, are expected to arrive at Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean by Monday in the hopes of solving the mystery of her disappearance. The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation on her fate. |
Lone male stoat captured on Orkney island after seven-month hunt
| | LONDON, UK, 10 October 2026 (BBC) - A lone stoat has been caught after a seven-month hunt by trappers in Orkney. The creature, which is not native to the islands and consider invasive, was first spotted on Rousay in May. It was captured on Friday and removed from the island by the Orkney Native Wildlife Project (ONWP), which has also caught thousands of stoats on the Orkney mainland as part of a £15m eradication scheme set up in 2019. |
Cop31 host urges wealthy countries to spend ‘much more’ on climate
| | NADI, Fiji, 9 October 2026 (Guardian) - Wealthy countries should spend far more on dealing with the climate crisis than the 5% of GDP promised by Nato members for defence because “the climate issue is the security issue”, the host of the next UN summit has said. But, in comments that are likely to prove contentious, the Cop31 president-designate, Murat Kurum, hedged on whether countries should try to repeat a previous agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels” – the primary cause of the climate crisis – when they meet in Turkey next month. |
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CBD |
 | | COP16 21 Oct-1 Nov, 2024, Cali, Colombia |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP29 11-22 November, 2024, Baku, Azerbaijan |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS II conference, 20-23 January 2025, Nuuk, Greenland |
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JICAS |
| | Islands And Island Studies conference 3-7 June, 2025, Jersey, Channel Islands |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 9-13 June, 2025, Nice, France |
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UPEI |
| | 3rd international conference on SIS and SNIJs 16-20 June, 2025, Charlottetown, PEI |
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ARCTIC COUNCIL |
| | UArctic Congress 26-29 May 2026, Torshavn, Faroe Islands |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference 25-28 June, 2026, Tacloban City, Leyte Islands, Philippines |
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WORLD ISLANDS FAIR |
| | The world’s first international event themed around islands 5 Sept-4 Nov, 2026, Yeosu, South Korea |
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SPREP |
| | 11th Pacific Islands Conference for Nature Conservation and Protected Areas, 7–11 September 2026, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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ANATOMY OF ISLANDS |
| | 14th Anatomy of Islands symposium 15-17 Oct, 2026, Jelsa, Hvar Island, Croatia |
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SOCIETY OF ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | 5th Island Biology conference 2-6 November, 2026, Atami City, Japan |
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IWRA |
| | 2nd Islands Water Congress 27-29 Jan, 2027, Montego Bay, Jamaica |
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ISISA |
| | 21st Islands of the Word Conference 6-10 June, 2027, Willemstad, Curacao |
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