Canada rallies for support on landmark biodiversity deal
| | MONTREAL, Canada, 7 December 2022 (SPREP) - The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Montreal is underway with the host country Canada showing leadership with a commitment to protect thirty percent of its lands and waters by 2030, and an announcement of CAD $350 million to support developing countries to take action on nature conservation. |
Oldest DNA reveals two-million-year-old lost world
| | LONDON, UK, 7 December 2022 (BBC) - The most ancient DNA ever sequenced reveals what the Arctic looked like two million years ago when it was warmer. Today the area in North Greenland is a polar desert, but the genetic material, extracted from soil, has uncovered a rich array of plants and animals. The scientists found genetic traces of elephant-like mastodons, reindeer and geese that roamed among birch and poplar trees, and of marine life including horseshoe crabs and algae. |
Indonesian authorities nip island auction in the bud
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 7 December 2022 (Mongabay) - Indonesian authorities have cracked down on a private developer’s bid to carve out foreign tourism enclaves within a marine reserve in the country’s eastern Widi Islands. |
The British island stuck in time
| | LONDON, UK, 7 December 2022 (BBC) - On the far-flung Channel Island of Sark, life is ingrained with feudal tradition – and driven by horse-drawn carts and wagonettes. |
The last count on St Kilda as census captures island life
| | EDINBURGH, UK 6 December 2022 (Scotsman) - The 1921 Census, which has now been published online, has illuminated those who hung on to island life in the years before it was abandoned in 1930 as well as the tragedies and losses that marked the years in between. |
Burned Moai statues are a symbol of growing tensions
| | HANGA ROA, Easter Island, 6 December 2022 (Reuters) - Charred Moai stone statues on Easter Island, singed in a wildfire earlier this year, are signs of a growing tension between landowners and conservationists in this tiny, remote island in the middle of the Pacific. |
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EU ISLANDS SECRETARIAT |
 | | Clean Energy for EU Islands Forum 17-18 May, 2022, Rhodes, Greece |
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UNEP |
| | Stockholm+50 international environmental meeting 2-3 June, 2022, Stockholm, Sweden |
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XVIII conference 13-17 June, 2022, Zadar, Croatia |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference "Creativity, Ingenuity, and Practice" 22-25 June, 2022, Shetland, UK |
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UNITED NATIONS |
| | UN Ocean Conference 27 June-1 July, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal |
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COP 27 |
| | UN Climate Change Conference 6-18 Nov, 2022, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt |
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CBD |
| | UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) 7-19 Dec, 2022, Montreal, Canada |
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IMPAC |
| | 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress 3-9 Feb, 2023, Vancouver, Canada |
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CTS-AP |
| | 3rd Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific Conference 13-17 Feb, 2023, Hanoi, Vietnam |
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IGU |
| | Islands in Relations: Conflicts, Sustainability and Peace thematic conference 4-6 April 2023, Osaka, Japan |
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SICRI |
| | Island Studies International Conference "Island Innovation, Resilience, and Revitalization" 20-26 June, 2023, Miyajima, Hiroshima, Japan |
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FESTPAC |
| | 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture 6-16 June, 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii |
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