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CVA Monthly e-News: February Conservation Volunteers e-News
Conservation Volunteers e-News is the monthly email newsletter that is filled with information about upcoming conservation projects, nature holidays, opportunities to volunteer overseas and special offers.
Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA). Australia. Publicated: 22-2-2008

Director-General participates in the Global Launch of the International Year of Planet Earth (2008)
Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, participated in the Global Launch of the International Year of Planet Earth (2008), which took place at UNESCO Headquarters on 12 and 13 February last.
UNESCO. Office of the Spokeswoman. Flash Info N° 017-2008. Publicated: 15-02-2008

Director-General signs Agreement establishing the International Research Centre on Karst, in Guilin, China, as a category II centre under the auspices of UNESCO
On 11 February 2008, the Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura and Mr Wang Shouxiang, Vice-Minister of Land and Resources of the People’s Republic of China, signed an Agreement establishing the International Research Centre on Karst, in Guilin, China as a category II centre under the auspices of UNESCO.
UNESCO. Office of the Spokeswoman. Flash Info N° 016-2008. Publicated: 12-02-2008

Financing the Transition from a Brown to a Green Global Economy Tops Environment Ministers Meeting
UN Environment Programme's 10th Special Session of the Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Monaco 20-22 February.
Nairobi/Monaco, 11 February 2008 - The biggest gathering of environment ministers to take place since the climate change breakthrough in Bali will be happening in Monaco later this month under the theme "Mobilizing Finance for the Climate Challenge".
UNEP. News Centre. Publicated: 11-2-2008

In order to save the last elephants, 17 African states sign the Declaration of Bamako
(Bamako, Mali - 7 February 2008) – The representatives of 17 African states signed in Mali after two days of discussion an important document, the Declaration of Bamako on elephants. The signatory countries of the zone of distribution of the African elephant are: Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leona, Guinea Bissau, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Suth Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya. The governments of Mali and Kenya hosted this meeting.
IFAW. Press Release. France. Publicated: 7-2-2008

Eco-Schools Heading in Right Direction
At a school in Calvinia, there is graffiti art on walls, and the school is in desperate need of a new coat of paint. Instead of depending on businesses in the area to assist, learners and educators have started a vegetable garden, and will sell the fresh produce in order to buy the paint...
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). News & Features. Press Releases. USA. Publicated: 14-2-2008

Scientists Discover New Species of Giant Elephant-Shrew
Related to sea cows and elephants, it lives in the Udzungwa Mountains of Tanzania.
ARLINGTON, VA (Jan. 31, 2008) — A small, furry mammal with an elephant-like snout and distinctive gray face was discovered by a team of scientists from Italy’s Trento Museum of Natural Sciences and the California Academy of Sciences. Related to the aardvark, sea cow and elephant, the news species is found only in two high-altitude forest blocks in the mountains of south-central Tanzania. The discovery will be announced in the February 4 issue of The Journal of Zoology published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF). News. Press Releases. USA. Publicated: 14-2-2008

A Russian and a Mexican reserve added to UNESCO MAB programme’s biosphere reserves
The Rostowsky reserve (Russian Federation) and the Marietas Islands (Mexico) are joining UNESCO’s world network of biosphere reserves. This decision was approved by the Bureau of the International Coordinating Council of the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme at the meeting being held from 4 to 9 February in Madrid.
UNESCO. Press Release N°2008-06. UNESCOPRESS. Publicated: 06-02-2008

Third World Congress of Biosphere Reserves presents action guidelines for next six years of UNESCO’s MAB programme
The third World Congress of UNESCO’s biosphere reserves closed last Friday in Madrid (Spain) with the adoption of a Declaration that stresses the role of biosphere reserves as places “for investments and innovation to mitigate and adapt to climate change, (and) to promote the greater use of renewable energy”.
UNESCO. UNESCOPRESS. Press release No 2008-08. Publicated: 11-02-2008

Loss of mangroves alarming
20 percent of mangrove area destroyed since 1980 – rate of loss slowing
31 January 2008, Rome - Environmental and economic damages caused by the alarming loss of mangroves in many countries should be urgently addressed FAO said today, calling for better mangrove protection and management programmes. The world has lost around 3.6 million hectares (ha) of mangroves since 1980, equivalent to an alarming 20 percent loss of total mangrove area according to FAO’s recent mangrove assessment study, entitled The world’s mangroves 1980-2005.
FAO. Newsroom. News stories. 2008. Publicated: 1-2-2008

DRC, Rwanda and Uganda pledge to protect
The Democratic Republic of Congo (RDC), Rwanda and Uganda have launched an initiative to create a transboundary biosphere reserve to safeguard the very rich biodiversity they share, which provides the habitat of the great apes, particularly mountain gorillas.
UNESCO. BPI. Publicated: 05-02-2008

International Year of Planet Earth to be launched at UNESCO
Building safer, healthier and wealthier societies around the globe by using the knowledge of the world’s 400,000 earth scientists more effectively is the main goal of the International Year of Planet Earth - Earth science for Society- which will be launched on 12 and 13 February at UNESCO (Room I, 9:00 a.m.).
UNESCO. Media Advisory N°2008-08. UNESCOPRESS. Publicated: 01-02-2008

UNEP/CMS/ACCOBAMS – Barcelona Convention: strengthened cooperation for the protection of biodiversity
The ministers of environment of Mediterranean countries, the European Commission and the governmental and nongovernmental Organisations devoted to the cause of the conservation of the "white Sea", the Mediterranean, so-called by the countries of the south, met on the occasion of XV the Meeting of the contracting parts in the Barcelona Convention on the protection of the sea and the coast of the Mediterranean and its protocols.
PNUE. Press Release. Media Advisory. Spain. Publicated: 28-1-2008

Caribbean corral reefs threatened IOC-UNESCO publication sounds the alarm
During the last 50 years many Caribbean reefs lost up to 80% of their coral cover. 2005 was especially disastrous for Caribbean corals and consequently, for the people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This alarming situation is documented in the publication “The Status of Caribbean Coral Reefs after Bleaching and Hurricanes in 2005”, which will be presented by its lead editor Clive Wilkinson, Director of the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, at UNESCO on 4 February (Miollis Building, Room 16, 6p.m.-8p.m.)
UNESCO. Media Advisory N°2008-07. UNESCOPRESS. 28-01-2008