David Attenborough Interview

Hi Everyone,

Just to point you towards an interview with David Attenborough today from the Guardian. It illustrates his view of presenting and communicating the natural world and conservation from a reverant and detached stance. It also gives any non-brits amongst us a peek at our most distinguished natural history personality.

Seafood Watch

Just a reminder about those delicious good and bad fishes upon which we should and shouldn't feast.

Be a climate change researcher!

Its easy! Its fun! It takes advantage of your computer while you're not using it! Its...climateprediction.net! Check it out, and make your computing power work towards understanding climate change.

A Unique Valentine Gift that Lasts Forever

Looking for an Alternative to Flowers and Chocolate?

If you are looking for a Valentine gift that:
is truly unique...
can be pErSoNaliSeD...
is affordable...
is ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY...

...Save a Piece of Unique Wilderness!!!

Instead of flowers that will soon wilt away, why not buy one acre of lush, tropical rainforest instead, as a unique, green Valentine gift that will help save endangered tropical flowers forever. Or, if you prefer, you could protect an acre of coastal steppe in Patagonia or elephant habitat in India instead. - You can choose which project to support.
Give Your Valentine an Acre of Rainforest
How to donate
One acre of rainforest or other threatened wilderness costs just £25 (approximately US$45). You can donate securely online or over the telephone, by post or by fax.
DONATE NOW!
Make a Valentine Gift Donation
Special UK only Valentines offer 2006: For £30 your Valentine will receive one Fair Trade chocolate bar with their acre and certificate, sent by Special Delivery to arrive on Valentine's Day morning.

(Courtesy of http://www.worldlandtrust.org/supporting/valentine.htm)

"Eden" on Earth

'Lost world' of untouched species found in New Guinea

New species of birds and mammals found in Indonesia governed New Guinea. Implications for conservation efforts? ALso this is by Conservation International which we just learnt a few days ago!
Ahori!:
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/192049/1/.html

Also reported in CI website: http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB

The best thing since sliced bread

In a contest of "the best idea since sliced bread", sponsored by the enormous service industry union SEIU in the US, the winning idea (from over 22,000 entries) was a resource tax. This is essentially ecosystem service valuation, using a tax to get it going. Just in case you needed proof that this is a good idea...