Biodiversity

By Julie Mollins Strategic planning is vital to ensure the conservation and sustainability of the vast genetic resources found in forests to meet current and future food security challenges and alleviate global poverty, experts say. At least half of all regularly used forest species are threatened or subject to genetic erosion, by the conversion of […]

It’s pitch-dark by the time the small group of eager but weary scientists reaches the remote rural community of Hierbas Buenas. Already late for an appointment with local leaders, they’re nearing the end of a 3-day journey in the Peruvian Amazon, which has given them a glimpse of the varied places and people that will […]

What is the Landscape Portal? The main purpose of the Landscape Portal is to create a space where scientists and other users can share and explore spatial data and maps What is new about it? The Landscape Portal is built on a seamless online GIS platform building on open source platforms and tools. It is supported […]

The European Research Council has awarded a highly competitive Consolidator Grant to Steffen Fritz, leader and creator of IIASA’s citizen science project, Geo-Wiki. The €1.4 million grant will build upon work conducted as part of IIASA’s Geo-Wiki project, an interactive online project which involves citizen scientists in global land cover research. It will take the […]

View session details here This presentation by Emilia Janeczko from the Warsaw University of Life Science shows how national park management in Poland is done.

See more session details This presentation by Keith Alverson from UNEP shows how ecosystem based approaches (EBAs) can help with adaption, how mountains are related to SGDs, what the UNEP does in the mountains, how ecosystem based adaptation in mountain ecosystems works and what some take-home messages are.