Influential MP proposes BOTs elected representation in Westminster
| | MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, 25 July 2017 (MercoPress) - An influential Tory MP has said that increased devolution powers to the Home countries has made lack of Westminster representation for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories a great unfairness, and it is time to end the outdated system of treating them like Colonies. |
Tobago gears up to fight sargassum invasion
| | PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, 25 July 2017 (IPS) - As Tobago’s tourism industry struggles to repel the sargassum invasions that have smothered its beaches with massive layers of seaweed as far as the eye can see – in some places half a metre thick – and left residents retching from the stench, the island’s government is working to establish an early warning system that will alert islanders of imminent invasions so they can take defensive action. |
Saltwater crocodile attacks terrorise Solomon Islands
| | LONDON, UK, 25 July 2017 (Guardian) - A growing number of crocodile attacks is forcing police in the Solomon Islands to shoot the animals and to consider lifting a 30-year ban on exporting their valuable skins in order to control the population. |
How a winemaker is taking on Sicily's rural Mafia
| | LONDON, UK, 25 July 2017 (BBC) - From the terrace of his winery near the baroque town of Caltagirone in south-eastern Sicily, Cesare Nicodemo surveys his fields of ripening vines - a glass of his finest spumante in hand. |
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CEST |
 | 15th International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology 31 Aug-2 Sept, 2017, Rhodes, Greece
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IMPAC |
| 4th International Marine Protected Areas Congress 4-8 Sept, 2017, La Serena-Coquimbo, Chile
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UHI ARCHAEOLOGY INSTITUTE |
| Our Islands, Our Past conference 14-17 Sept, 2017, Orkney, Scotland
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ISLAND ARKS |
| Island Arks Symposium V 23-27 Oct, 2017, Nadi, Fiji
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UNIDCOM/IADE |
| Senses & Sensibility conference 24-25 Oct, 2017, Funchal, Madeira
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| Island Cities & Urban Archipelagos conference 8-12 Nov, 2017, Funchal, Madeira
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RETI |
| 7th Symposium & School 17-21 Nov, 2017, Univ of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan
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UPEI |
| 1st International Conference on Small Island States & Subnational Island jurisdictions 11-14 March, 2018, Philipsburg, Sint Maarten/St Martin
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PRATT INSTITUTE |
| Archipelagos and Aquapelagos conference 30 March-1 April, 2018, New York, US
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FEC |
| 7th International Conference on Environmental Future - Humans and Island environments 16-20 April, 2018, Hawaii
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ISISA |
| Islands of the World XVI conference 10-14 June, 2018, Leeuwarden - Terschelling, The Netherlands
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SCB OCEANIA |
| 5th Congress Conservation in a Changing World 2-6 July, 2018, Wellington, New Zealand
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