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More than a million feral camels wander the arid inland of Australia, harming the fragile rangeland and waterholes. The Australian Feral Camel Management Project has taken a crowdsourcing approach to help get a handle on this invasive species problem. The group have set up an interactive mapping website called CamelScan and are asking travelers to [...]
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Jordan launches a $1 million dollar online mapping site yesterday at an unprecedented countrywide scale. The site called MEGA (Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities) details every archaeological site in the country and aims to help preserve its treasures. MEGA uses GIS to map 11,000 registered sites in the country, with details on the inventories at [...]
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Susan Ancel from EPCOR Water Services in Alberta, Canada presented today at GITA regarding her work at an intelligent water conservation strategy that has helped meet water conservation targets, and delayed a capital improvement investment of $140M dollars for more 14 years. Ancel and her team are responsible for a water utility that serves 1 [...]
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Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time is a full length documentary of the conservationist that is now being presented in screenings around the country before being shown on public television in early 2012. The film documents the life of the author and conservationist with a focus on land ethics ideas [...]
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A team of scientists combined field measurements, airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR)–based observations, and satellite-based imagery to develop a 30-meter-resolution map carbon density for the Island of Hawaii. The work accounted for 40 vegetation types across the full one million-hectare expanse of the island. This high-resolution carbon mapping effort estimates a total of 28.3 [...]
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Today the Indian government approved an investment of $10.14 billion (460 billion rupees) for the National Mission for a Green India (NMGI). The plan will expand forests by five million hectares, while also remediating and improving forest quality on another five million hectares. The plan is part of a larger National Action Plan on Climate [...]
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The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), in collaboration with other partners, is helping to integrate habitat and species data in order to stem biodiversity loss. The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) aims to assess, monitor and forecast the state of protected areas on a global scale in order to prioritize and support decision-making [...]
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Coral reefs, the most biodiverse ecosystems in the ocean, have been facing local and global pressures for some time. In an updated report titled, Reefs at Risk Revisited by the World Resources Institute (WRI), this pressure has reached the point that 75% percent of the world’s reefs are threatened, and 30% of endangered reefs identified [...]
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Here’s an inspiring TED talk by Michael Pawlyn about the application of biomimicry for sustainable design. Pawlin has been involved in a great number of inspiring projects, and has had some wonderful success in approaching issues of sustainability with closed loop systems that treat waste products from different processes as inputs to others, ultimately looping [...]
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The WWF recently set up a Conservation Science Network to help link the scientists, forest carbon experts, and species teams. The Conservation Science network is busy using GIS and other geospatial tools, including Clark Labs’ Land Change Modeler software extension to ArcGIS., to identify issues of deforestation and global change. WWF is undertaking ongoing work [...]
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