Inside Christmas Island detention centre
| | SYDNEY, Australia, 25 January 2020 (Guardian) - The sole occupants of a million-dollar facility off the country’s coast are two adults and two small children, who are paying the price for its war on refugees. |
San Juan Islands could be 'loved to death'
| | SEATTLE, US, 24 January 2020 (Crosscut) - The federal government helped make the islands a national monument. But locals worry a Trump-era focus on making public lands productive could be their undoing. |
The Echo Parakeet's 100-year recovery plan
| | CAMBRIDGE, UK, 24 January 2020 (BirdLife) - In the 1970s, there were around a dozen Echo Parakeets remaining. Like its famous Mauritian cousin, the Dodo, it was heading for extinction. Fast forward 40 years and the species has made a remarkable comeback, with nearly 800 birds now in the wild. |
Indonesia forest fires push orangutans into starvation mode
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 24 January 2020 (Mongabay) - The fires that raze vast swaths of Indonesian Borneo every year are having a lasting health impact on the region’s critically endangered orangutans that threatens them with extinction, a new study has found. |
Marshall Islands dengue outbreak
| | WELLINGTON, New Zealand, 23 January 2020 (RNZ) - The hospital in Majuro is overflowing, its doctors exhausted, its wards strained, budgets withered, and no end in sight. Every day, dozens more patients are wheeled in to wait in corridors. |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
 | | Islands in the Belt and Road Initiative conference 9-10 Nov, 2019, Fuzhou, China |
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UNFCCC |
| | COP 25 2-13 Dec, 2019, Madrid, Spain |
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UB-NORTH |
| | Sustainable Grand Bahama Conference 5-6 March, 2020, Freeport, Grand Bahama |
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UHI INS |
| | 5th International St Magnus Conference 15-18 April, 2020, Lerwick, Shetland |
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SPREP |
| | 10th Pacific Nature Conservation Conference 20-24 April, 2020, Noumea, New Caledonia |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 10-21 June, 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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IUCN |
| | World Conservation Congress 11-19 June, 2020, Marseille, France |
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SICRI |
| | Island Feminisms Conference 13-15 June, 2020, Hilo, Hawaii |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVII conference 22-26 June, 2020, St. John's, Newfoundland |
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ISCI |
| | 15th International Small Island Cultures Conference: Island Festivals and Music Tourism 9-13 July, 2020, Kingston, Jamaica |
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AEGEAN UNIV |
| | 'The island–insularity, archipelagos–a geophilosophical issue' A Summer University, 10-14 July, 2020, Rhodes, Greece |
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UNIV OF MAURITIUS |
| | Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines conference 4-6 August, 2020, Reduit, Mauritius |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | DARKNESS conference 30 Nov-3 Dec, 2020, Nuuk, Greenland |
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