The untold environmental costs of the Brexit vote
ALERT member Pierre-Michel Forget is a leading tropical ecologist and former President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Here he tells us about some surprising implications of Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. On 22 June 2016, hundreds of participants attended a photo slideshow during the Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical […]
A Brief Report of the 2015 AIBS Council Meeting
As the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) liaison with the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), I had the pleasure of attending the 2015 AIBS Council Meeting on December 8, 2015, at the Pew Charitable Trusts Conference Center in Washington, DC.
Pan-Tropical study reveals huge variation in effectiveness of Protected Areas
From William Laurance at www.alert-conservation.org Protected areas such as national parks and World Heritage sites are probably our best bet for conserving nature in the long term. They’re not the only game in town but they’re certainly the cornerstone of global conservation efforts. ARE PROTECTED AREAS PROTECTING NATURE? Given this, we really need to know how […]
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