Amphibian pandemic may have hit Madagascar
| | SAN FRANCISCO, US, 11 April 2014 (Mongabay) - Madagascar is one of the world's hotspots for amphibian diversity, home to so many frog species that many of them don't even have names. |
Tinhosas islands remote seabird paradise
| | CAMBRIDGE, UK, 11 April 2014 (BirdLife) - Sao Tome & Principe is a small tropical country known amongst birdwatchers and conservationists for its endangered secondary forests and high level of bird endemism. |
Forests in Indonesia's concession areas being rapidly destroyed
| | SAN FRANCISCO, US, 10 April 2014 (Mongabay) - Forest clearing within areas zoned for timber, logging, oil palm, and mining accounted for nearly 45% of deforestation in Indonesia between 2000 and 2010, finds a new study that examined forest loss within industrial concessions. |
Tropical islands poised to benefit from ocean power
| | LONDON, UK, 10 April 2014 (SciDevNet) - Island nations in the developing world are especially well placed to benefit from technology that exploits a new potential source of energy from sea water: ocean thermal energy conversion. |
Cypriot gas find may help resolve island's division
| | NICOSIA, Cyprus, 10 April 2014 (Reuters) - President Nicos Anastasiades said discovery of natural gas around Cyprus could galvanise international efforts to resolve a long-standing division of the island and smooth development of an alternative energy supply source to Russia. |
Time running out for rarest primate
| | LONDON, UK, 8 April 2014 (Nature) - China’s wildlife conservation efforts are under scrutiny as scientists battle to save a species found only in a tiny corner of an island in the South China Sea. |
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AAPS |
 | | Oceanscapes: cooperation across the Pacific conference 22-26 April, 2014, Sydney, Australia
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SICRI |
| | 10th International Small Islands Conference 4-8 June, 2014, Fernando de Noronha, Brazil
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UPEI |
| | RETI annual meeting 4-9 July, 2014, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
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ISLAND BIOLOGY |
| | International conference on Island Evolution, Ecology & Conservation 7-11 July, 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii
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SIDS |
| | 3rd International Conference on SIDS 28 Aug-4 Sept, 2014, Apia, Samoa
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ISISA |
| | Islands of the World XIII conference 22-27 Sept, 2014, Penghu Islands, Taiwan
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ISLAND DYNAMICS |
| | Island cities and urban archipelagos conference 21-25 Oct, 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
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IUCN |
| | World Parks Congress, 12-19 Nov, 2014, Sydney, Australia
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UNIV OF MALTA |
| | Global Environmental Change & Small Islands symposium 1-5 Dec, 2014, Valletta, Malta
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CAFF |
| | Arctic Biodiversity Congress 2-4 Dec, 2014, Trondheim, Norway
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