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1 Jun 2012
Mark Avery's daily blog from RIO+20
By Adrian Long
Dr Mark Avery, former Conservation Director of the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK), is a writer on the environment. Each day on 1-20 June he is writing a blog about biodiversity, sustainability and global issues – such as the Arctic, rainforests, oceans and climate change. He says: "to come are New York’s water supply, neonicotinoids, coral reefs, how to feed the world and much more." Read Mark's daily RIO+20 postsGet Mark's posts via a RSS feed
The late Dr Young was a passionate conservationist whose work has greatly contributed to strengthening the conservation and management of wetlands across Asia.
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New report shows that Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) sustainable seafood certification scheme needs to do more to tackle bycatch of threatened species in certified fisheries
The tropical forests of Asia and the Western Pacific are havens to an astounding wealth and variety of life, much of it found nowhere else. Regional Project Manager Hum Gurung explains how BirdLife's Forest Governance...
Once down to just 10 individuals in the wild, Pink Pigeon populations are now stabilizing, and Northern Bald Ibis numbers are on the rise, according to BirdLife’s latest assessment of the extinction risk of the world’s...
This secretive Endangered songbird has been spotted for the first time in three years, in the cloud forests of Malaysia – a completely new habitat for this species. Could this be its formerly unknown wintering grounds?
