ECNC : expertise Centre for biodiversity and sustainable development IberiaNature - A guide to Spain: environment, geography, nature, landscape, climate, culture, history, rural tourism and travel Peachy Green - Solar Power, Renewable Energy & Going Green The Biodiversity Hotspots Page Content Life on Earth faces a crisis of historical and planetary proportions. Unsustainable consumption in many northern countries and crushing poverty in the tropics are destroying wild nature. Extinction is the gravest aspect of the biodiversity crisis: it is irreversible. In a world where conservation budgets are insufficient given the number of species threatened with extinction, identifying conservation priorities is crucial. The biodiversity hotspots hold especially high numbers of endemic species, yet their combined area of remaining habitat covers only 2.3 percent of the Earth's land surface. Hotspots in Context Hotspots Defined Impact of Hotspots Hotspots Revisited Conservation Responses Subsection 01 Eight Hotspots hold a diversity of plant and animal life, many of which are found no where else on Earth. Subsection 02 Composed of large land areas as well as islands dotting the Pacific seas, these 13 Hotspots represent important biodiversity. Subsection 03 Subsection 04
Clearing the way for Europe's wildlife 1. October 2010 EuroNatur: Fragmentation of landscapes? New studies demonstrate alternatives Press Release from October 1, 2010 Radolfzell. In view of the rapid expansion of road and transport networks, especially in Central and Southeast Europe, the subject of landscape fragmentation is ever more urgent. "The best would be to already plan roads and railway lines in such a way that they give wildlife corridors a wide berth", demands EuroNatur director Gabriel Schwaderer. This manual is no kind of an inflated theoretical essay; instead, it helps finding, implementing and controlling the effectiveness of measures against the fragmentation of landscapes.Actual case studies from Croatia, Slovakia, Poland and Bulgaria provide a realistic support and genuine action plans. The printed manual: „Trans-European Wildlife Networks Project – TEWN. Please address orders to:EuroNaturKonstanzer Str. 22 78315 Radolfzell GermanyPhone +49 (0) 7732-9272-0Fax +49 (0) 7732-927222E-Mail: info@euronatur.org
Nature's Place GBIF : Global Biodiversity Information Facility Try out the new GBIF portal! Why not try out the new GBIF portal at www.gbif.org, which has many more features and includes lots of information about the GBIF community, including great examples of data uses in research and interesting applications? The old GBIF data portal which you are viewing now will continue to be supported until we are satisfied it can be taken down without causing major inconvenience. Be aware that the content here is static and has not been updated since the launch of the new portal on 9 October 2013. If and when a date is confirmed for discontinuing the old data portal, we will post it here with plenty of prior notice. Welcome to the (former) GBIF Data Portal Access 416,242,316 data records (363,215,360 with coordinates) shared via the GBIF network. Explore Species Find data for a species or other group of organisms. Species Example species: Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) Explore Countries Find data on the species recorded in a particular country, territory or island.
The camera trap revolution: how a simple device is shaping research and conservation worldwide This article is available for a limited time on mongabay.com. It has also been published in a book by mongabay journalist, Jeremy Hance: Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction. The book is also available in Europe. This is an expanded version of an article that ran on Yale e360 on December 5th, 2011: Camera Traps Emerge as Key Tool in Wildlife Research. A camera trap sits precariously between two forest elephants. I must confess to a recent addiction: camera trap photos. Although the majority of camera trap photos are bleary, fuzzy or simply show parts of an animal rather than the whole, some camera trap photos are on a par with the best in wildlife photography, capturing one thing that is truly difficult for photographers: a palpable sense of intimacy. But as mesmerizing as camera photos are, they serve a purpose beyond the aesthetic. It must be noted that camera trapping is not new. The technology was even behind the discovery of a few new species. What’s out there?
Nature Magnified AVES France : Association de protection des espèces menacées Council of Europe Nature Ecological Networks and Emerald Network The pace of biodiversity decline is quickening worldwide. Habitat break-up, pollution, over-use of natural areas and the creation of artificial landscapes increase the rate of erosion, while reducing species' opportunity for migration, dispersion and exchange. How and by what means can this situation be put right? In 1995, the European Ministers of the Environment meeting in Sofia, launched the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy (PEBLDS), so as to strengthen environment and biodiversity conservation policies. The setting up of a Pan-European Ecological Network covering Eurasia was one of the key steps taken under the Strategy. Ecological networks can positively influence the conditions for the survival of species populations in the fragmented natural areas and human dominated landscapes in Europe. Emerald Network The Emerald Network is an ecological network made up of Areas of Special Conservation Interest.
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