Indonesia galvanises youth ahead of Rio+20
| | JAKARTA, Indonesia, 11 May 2012 (IPS) - Clutching a plastic bag containing a tree sapling in his right hand and a slim notebook in his left, 11-year-old Rizki Fauzi is the picture of a young climate change expert. |
Jamaica's rich biodiversity faces multiple threats
| | KINGSTON, Jamaica, 11 May 2012 (IPS) - Jamaican authorities are going all out to achieve environmental sustainability as one way of minimising the expected impacts of climate change on the local biodiversity. |
4,000 Chinese islands under 3D watch
| | BEIJING, China, 11 May 2012 (China Daily) - China has adopted three-dimensional (3D) visual management over 4,000 islands, according to an annual report released Thursday by the Ministry of Land and Resources. |
Island may be devil's last chance
| | SYDNEY, Australia, 11 May 2012 (SMH) - A government plan to turn Tasmania's Maria Island national park into a last refuge for the disease-plagued Tasmanian devil has sparked strong opposition from wildlife advocates. |
Alaska man plans year on uninhabited island
| | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, 10 May 2012 (AP) - A 40-year-old oil company employee and filmmaker from Anchorage will move to the mostly uninhabited Latouche Island in Alaska's Prince William Sound at the end of May, completing a dream he's been contemplating for 17 years. |
Iceland tax ruling could spare giant whales
| | REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 9 May 2012 (AFP) - A dispute over an abolished tax rebate for whalers means there will likely be no fin whale hunt off Iceland this year, the head of the only company that catches the giant whales said today. |
New Faroe Islands research centre to be established
| | DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, 9 May 2012 (Phys.Org) - With the support of a Major League Baseball star, a new University of Florida research center on an island settled by the Vikings could lead to breakthroughs about a rare genetic disorder and potentially change the course of care for high blood pressure and other common conditions. |
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ISISA |
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SICRI |
| | 8th International Small Islands conference 6-9 June, 2012, Cape Breton, Canada
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RIO+20 |
| | UN conference on sustainable development 20-22 June, 2012, Brazil |
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EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION |
| | 8th EIPC conference 8-13 July, 2012, Santa Rosa, USA
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UNIV OF AZORES |
| | GIS and Islands summer school 5-11 Aug, 2012, Sao Miguel, Portugal |
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IGU COMMISSION ON ISLANDS |
| | 32nd IGC 26-30 Aug, 2012, Cologne, Germany
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ECCB |
| | 3rd European Congress of Conservation Biology 28 Aug-1Sept, 2012, Glasgow, Scotland
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IUCN |
| | World Conservation Congress 6-15 Sept, 2012, Jeju, Korea |
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WIT |
| | 2nd international conference on island sustainability 17-19 Sept, 2012, Brac, Croatia
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ESfO |
| | The Power of the Pacific conference 5-8 Dec, 2012, Bergen, Norway |
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Local Actions in a Global Context conference 15-17 Jan, 2013, Svalbard, Norway
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Third conference 14-18 May, 2013, Famagusta, Cyprus
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