Experts warn booming seaweed industry
| | NEW YORK, US, 7 September 2016 (SPX) - A rising number of valuable uses being found for seaweed - from food and fertilizer to pharmaceuticals and industrial gels - is driving the rapid growth of an industry that could easily and needlessly drop into some of the same pitfalls previously experienced in both agriculture and fish farming. |
Communities see tourism gold in derelict Bougainville mine
| | PANGUNA, PNG, 7 September 2016 (IPS) - The Panguna copper mine, located in the mountains of Central Bougainville, an autonomous region in the southwest Pacific Island state of Papua New Guinea, has been derelict for 27 years since an armed campaign by local landowners forced its shutdown and triggered a decade-long civil war in the late 1980s. |
Cortes Island: A different vision for forestry in British Columbia
| | VICTORIA, Canada, 6 September 2016 (DeSmog Canada) - In 2012, I took a fateful trip to Cortes Island - a northern gulf island three ferry rides away from Vancouver - to document the Cortes community’s fight to fend off an impending logging operation by coastal timber giant Island Timberlands. |
Palm oil firm accused of hiring men to kidnap smog inspectors
| | BANGKOK, Thailand, 6 September 2016 (Guardian) - Up to 100 Indonesian men, believed to have been hired by a palm oil firm, took a team of official environmental investigators hostage on Friday and threatened to burn them alive, Indonesia’s environment ministry has said. |
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PSC |
 | 23rd Pacific Science Congress 13-17 June, 2016, Taipei, Taiwan
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SICRI |
| 12th International Small Island Cultures conference 17-20 June, 2016, Naha, Okinawa
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GIPCN |
| Island Biology conference 18-22 July, 2016, Azores, Portugal
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ICCIP |
| Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region 26-28 July, 2016, Lautoka, Fiji
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IUCN |
| World Conservation Congress 1-10 Sept, 2016, Hawaii
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CIEEM |
| Protecting marine and coastal areas in the UK Overseas Territories conference 21 Sept, 2016, London, UK
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RETI |
| Island Tourism Symposium 18-19 Nov, 2016, Valletta, Malta
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| Rethinking Remoteness and Peripherality conference 16-19 January 2017, Longyearbyen, Svalbard
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THE ECONOMIST |
| World Ocean Summit 22-24 Feb, 2017, Bali, Indonesia
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| Local Sustainable Development and Global Challenges conference 15-20 May, 2017, Sakhalin, Russia
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ISISA |
| Islands of the World XV conference 2-8 July, 2017, Kangaroo Island, Australia
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ISSG |
| Island Invasives conference 10-14 July, 2017, Univ of Dundee, Scotland
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FEC |
| 7th International Conference on Environmental Future - Humans and Island environments 17-21 July, 2017,
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