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The Australian government is taking a landscape-scale approach to conservation and biodiversity preservation with a new National Wildlife Corrridors Plan that invests $10 million over the next three years. The approach will ensure effective migration of species with a coordinated approach across all governments, private land owners and regional community groups. An ongoing Biodiversity Fund [...]
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The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) led the project to map the British landscape vegetation and land cover at an unprecedented scale. The latest UK Land Cover Map (LCM) shows the distribution of different habitats throughout the country at a 25-metre resolution. The impetus for the project is the decline in insect pollinators, with [...]
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The Chronicle of Higher Education has a thought-provoking piece by Rob Nixon about the need, and the difficulty, of visualizing and communicating the impacts of slowly evolving crises. He outlines the challenge of conveying the impacts of climate change, deforestation, oil spills, ocean acidification and a host of other slowly evolving issues of global impact [...]
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Two young men are setting off on an unassisted 750-kilometre hike through the Haida Gwaii in British Columbia in order to highlight the pristine nature of the wilderness, and to protest Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project. Sam Harrison, a recent social geography graduate of the University of Northern B.C. and Nathan Leenders of Whitehorse [...]
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The International Programme on the State of the Ocean was created to assess and mitigate the decline of the global ocean, “earth’s circulatory system that performs vital functions to make the planet habitable.” The organization just released an international and interdisciplinary report by marine experts that reviews the latest scientific research and concludes that the [...]
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The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife (DWFW) has just launched a free online mapping tool that displays information about key fish and wildlife species and critical wildlife habitat. The Priority Habitats and Species site unlocks much of the information needed by local, state and federal agencies for land-use permits that used to require [...]
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University of Leeds PhD student Ute Bradter has created an automated and predictive method of vegetation mapping with 92 percent accuracy that rivals comparable traditional mapping, but is much quicker and cheaper. The approach applied a statistical model with inputs on soil type, altitude, slope and aspect, with aerial images and Ordnance Survey maps, to [...]
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An international team of scientists used imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) sensors over more than a decade to determine the stress of last year’s record-breaking drought on the Amazon’s vegetation. The analysis determined that the vegetation in the large basin went through great stress and is [...]
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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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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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