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Additional
$4 Million to Protect Australian Coastal Environment
The Australian Government today announced an additional $4 million
in community funding to protect and conserve Australia’s coastal
and marine environments. The funding, to be provided through a special
round of the Australian Government Envirofund, was jointly announced
by Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Senator Eric
Abetz, and Assistant Minister for the Environment and Water Resources,
Mr John Cobb...
Australian Goverment. Joint Media Release. Publicated: 25-05-2007
What is AMA?
The purpose of the African Marine Atlas (AMA) is to identify, collect
and organize available geospatial datasets into an atlas of environmental
themes for Africa, under the sponsorship of the ODINAFRICA Project
of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's (IOC) International
Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Programme. The
African Marine Atlas will include and involve a number of other
geo-spatial data projects on and around the African continent.
Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA).
Publication Date: 17-05-2007
Exhibition on "Biodiversity: everything is alive,
everything is related "
After the success in 2006 of the operation "Sustainable Development,
why", the ministry of national Education, higher Education
and Investigation, the Ministry of Ecology and sustainable development,
and photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, propose a new pedagogical
exhibition entitled "Biodiversity: everything is alive, everything
is related ". Objective: to increase awareness to 10 million
students of primary and secondary school towards the challenges
of biodiversity through thematics such as the utility of the species,
the protection of natural spaces, the quality of the air or the
climate change.
Ministry of national Education, higher Education and Investigation.
France. Publication: 17-05-2007
International polar year in CERIMES
As of Wednesday 4 of April of 2007. With the occasion of the launching
of the international polar year, the CERIMES proposes a selection
of films to watch on line. In the program: documentaries on the
penguins, scientific missions in the Kerguelen islands, campaigns
of launching of probes…
Ministry of national Education, higher Education and Investigation.
France. Publication Date: 17-05-2007
Earth's poles, Territories for science
With global warming advancing unchecked, the Arctic and Antarctic
are more than ever superb vantage points for observation. After
the recent IPCC gathering in Paris that brought together more than
500 researchers, the 4th International Polar Year launched in March
is set to send thousands of researchers to the two most inhospitable
regions of the planet where part of our future is playing out.
Special Report of the Space Study National Centre. (CNES)
The Alfred Wegener Institute - Germany's leading institute
for polar and marine research
This institute conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and
at temperate latitudes. Its webpage, in German and English, not
only for experts, includes recent research results, pictures, hard-copy
and online publications, interactive games, etc.
Alfred Wegener Institute. Institute. Germany. Publication Date:
15-05-2007
World Environment Day 2007
The World Environment Day slogan selected for 2007 is Melting Ice
– a Hot Topic? In support of International Polar Year, the WED theme
selected for 2007 focuses on the effects that climate change is
having on polar ecosystems and communities, and the ensuing consequences
around the world.
UNEP. WED. Kenya. Publication Date: 15-05-2007
New manual promotes dolphin conservation
Dolphins throughout the world are threatened by pollution, habitat
destruction, over-fishing and climate change and man-made underwater
noise pollution. Each year, an estimated 100,000 are killed for
commercial purposes, and an additional 300,000 perish after being
accidentally entangled in fishing nets.
UNESCO. Media Advisory No. 2007-26. France. Publication Date:
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