Archive: October 2005

Philippines Marine Update:October 2005: 31 October 2005; Project Brief Aim The Southern Leyte Coral Reef Conservation Project (SLCRCP) is a three-year collaborative project (2002–2005), to survey the coral reefs of Sogod Bay. The programme provides training and conservation education opportunities for local Filipinos, as part of an...; Categories: Coral Reefs, Monthly Project Updates, Philippines
EXPLORE 2005: 26 October 2005; EXPLORE 2005 the annual expedition and fieldwork planning seminar at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in the heart of London is the ideal place to find advice, contacts and inspiration for future expeditions. Over 100 leading field scientists and...; Categories: General News
The Trinidad Express: Caribbean Coral Crisis: 25 October 2005; In the last month, coral reefs across the Caribbean have become affected by a sudden and life-threatening bleaching epidemic brought on by sea temperature rise; the same temperatures which have unleashed a record 12 hurricanes on the region this season....; Categories: Trinidad & Tobago
CCC Science Team to Research Tobago Bleaching: 24 October 2005; The coral reefs of the Caribbean are currently experiencing what may be the worst ‘bleaching’ recorded since the 1997/1998 El Nino-induced event. When corals become ‘stressed’ by adverse environmental conditions (such as increased sea-surface temperatures), they expel the microscopic coloured...; Categories: Trinidad & Tobago
Nature’s Capital - The Key To Poverty Eradication: 24 October 2005; Speaking in Cambridge and paraphrasing the eighteenth century economist Adam Smith, Dr Klaus Topfler, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said that "we must recalculate the wealth of nations". Development "requires three types of capital: financial; human...; Categories:
Environment on the Edge 2005-6: 17 October 2005; Some of the world's leading environmental scientists are visiting Cambridge for a series of lectures on how man's relationship with the natural world is shaping our present and future priorities. The next lecture in the "Environment on the Edge" series,...; Categories: General News
New 2006 Egypt Project!: 13 October 2005; CCC has been invited by the competent authorities in coral reef management along the Red Sea Coastline to commence a three-month pilot project in Southern Egypt in 2006. The 'Red Sea Coral Reef Conservation Pilot Project' will begin in February...; Categories: Coral Reefs, Red Sea
Socio-economic Consultant Needed: 06 October 2005; Coral Cay Conservation is an international conservation organisation that helps protect threatened coral reefs and tropical forests by collecting scientific information and providing management recommendations to local conservation bodies and communities. CCC is expanding its work into social aspects of...; Categories:
Fiji Marine Science Update: 06 October 2005; This report comes from a recent visit made to CCC's Fiji operations by James Comley (CCC Director of Marine Science) during August and September 2005. It is split into activities by geographic region and includes a report of a presentation given at the National Tourism Council Meeting held on the 25th of August and CCC's third annual review held in Nadi on the 15th of September.; Categories: Coral Reefs, Fiji, Reports and Publications
Project Bay Islands: 06 October 2005; After 5 years of work on Roatán, the volunteers and staff of Project Bay Islands have achieved an enormous amount. The CCC baseline ecological surveying programme has resulted in over 2,400 survey records, documenting the biophysical assemblages of the threatened...; Categories: Coral Reefs, Honduras
Papua New Guinea Forest Project: 06 October 2005; Dr Craig Turner (CCC Director of Science) recently undertook a scoping visit to Papua New Guinea (funding by the Darwin Initiative). CCC is currently developing a project to work in partnership with the people of the Waria Valley (Papua New...; Categories: General News, Papua New Guinea, Tropical Forests
Trinidad and Tobago Heritage Parks: 05 October 2005; Dr Craig Turner (CCC Director of Science) recently completed a short mission to Trinidad and Tobago to contribute to an initiative to develop a national system of Heritage Parks. CCC was invited by the Ministry of Local Government (for Trinidad...; Categories: General News, Trinidad & Tobago
CCC Consultant Joins BBC1: 04 October 2005; William Gray, internationally renowned travel writer, photographer, author and conservationist (and CCC Editorial/Design Consultant!) is to star alongside Laurence Llewellyn Bowen in the new BBC1 television series Holiday 2006! The programme which starts on Monday 17 October 2005 will see...; Categories: General News
Malaysia Tropical Forests Conservation Project Success: 01 October 2005; CCC will be concluding its survey of the biodiversity of the Setiu Wetland complex, peninsular Malaysia in March 2006. At this point, CCC will have achieved it’s stated aims of completing in-depth baseline biodiversity reasearch on the health and ecological...; Categories: Malaysia, Tropical Forests

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