Thursday, September 5th, 2013
Conservationists in Fiji are using high-tech maps to pinpoint where they should focus their efforts to protect endangered species. A natural sciences lecturer at New Zealand’s Unitec Insititute of Technology, Glenn Aguilar, and a colleague are collaborating...
Monday, August 26th, 2013
The Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) is joining hands with the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), U.S., for a project on using smartphones in a big way for crowdsourcing, a participatory exercise to generate data, for...
Monday, July 8th, 2013
The Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) has started testing a new geographical information system (GIS) to help it regulate conservation and development work at the city’s historic quarter. The GIS, developed in collaboration with the Aga...
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Logging would be allowed in NSW national parks and a freeze imposed on the declaration of new conservation areas under recommendations of a state government-dominated parliamentary inquiry. Read More
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
While Gangtok, a picturesque town in Sikkim, is fighting with urbanization to conserve fragile Himalayan ecosystem, Kozhikode in Kerala wants to preserve the wetlands in heart of the city that is under threat from constant urbanization. It...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
The state water resources department has launched an ambitious project to prepare digital maps of all 44 rivers in the state and feed them on to a geographic information system (GIS)- based platform, possibly in 3D format....
Monday, January 7th, 2013
Dubbed one of the world’s top-two mega centers of biodiversity alongside Brazil, Indonesia is also a country of enormous cultural diversity. Among its 259.94 million inhabitants today, there are more than 500 ethnic groups speaking over 1,000...
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013
Indonesia on Wednesday approved a rainforest conservation project that sets aside an area roughly the size of Singapore and rewards investors with tradeable carbon credits in the first of its kind to win formal backing in the...
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
An ongoing project of the Qatar Foundation and Conservation International has been the mapping of mangroves for conservation and biodiversity protection. The project has deployed remote sensors in the field to capture readings as well as satellites...
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
India’s poorest fishing, forest and farming communities will be worst hit by rapid losses of nature as well as efforts to conserve it. They are at risk of losing their lands to erosion and mining or being...
