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By Rebecca Burcher Jones
Correspondent
..., the two volunteered at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, where more than 7,000 plant spe... by the South African National Biodiversity Institute, which states on its website, "Although ...
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[...] we have situated the San more carefully - linguistically, socioeconomically, and politically - than other law review articles in regard to their varying positions across time and place in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. [...] the financial promise of Hoodia is weak not only because it is hard to grow on commercial-sized plantations but also because its active compound potentially poses health risks, is not producible cheaply in mass quantities, and has slight, if any, advantage over the usual weight-loss plan that lowers caloric intake.
... Park and the former Kalahari Gemsbok National Park.73. II. THE SAN PREDICAMENT. So we now know w... The South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), in a report last updated in 2005, stated ...
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We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal permit is issued that allows such activities. The ESA requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits.
... Applicant: National Park Service, Mammoth Cave National Park. Appl... Applicant: Biodiversity Research Institute, Gorham, Maine. Applicant r...
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... it comes to biodiversity conservation, national parks and other government-protected natural areas... environmental policy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in Monterey, California....
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.... In 1961 the Institute of Lands and Colonization was created to help indi.... Bio-prospecting: In Costa Rica national parks have a relatively low human impact and they ... paid $1 million to the National Biodiversity Institute (INBIO) for an agreement to conduct rese...
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS
Contact: Carol Hughes of Arizona State University International Institute for Species Exploration, +1-480-965-6375, direct line, +1- 480-254-3753 cell, carol.hughes@asu.edu
... how little is known about deep-reef biodiversity. Also on the top 10 list is a fossilized specimen ... included Philippe Bouchet, French National Museum of Natural History and International Commis...
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Bioprospecting refers to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries' renewed interest in the use of plants, microbes, and traditional knowledge as leads for developing new products. Since the 1990s, the new benefit-sharing arrangements in the acquisition of plant, microbes, and traditional knowledge have led to complex and sometimes counterproductive attempts at ethical appropriation. Hayden discusses bioprospecting's new promise and threats, and benefit-sharing agreements.
...'s ongoing International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) initiative, which has funded drug di... the drug company Merck and Costa Rica's National Biodiversity Institute (INBio). The novelty of the...
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Carol Hughes of Arizona State University International Institute for Species Exploration, +1-480-965-6375 (direct line), +1- 480-254-3753 (cell), carol.hughes@asu.edu
... 2007 is helping draw attention to biodiversity, the field of taxonomy, and the importance of natu...
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To avoid extinctions and other harms to ecological health from escalating climatic change, scientists, resource managers, and activists are considering and even engaging in "assisted migration" -- the intentional movement of an organism to an area in which its species has never existed. This article explores the profound implications of climate change for American natural resource management through the lens of this controversial adaptation strategy. It details arguments regarding the scientific viability and legality of assisted migration under the thicket of laws that govern natural resources in the US. The article explains why contemporary natural resource law's fidelity to historic baselines, protecting preexisting biota, and shielding nature from human activity is increasingly unte...
... systems.28 Given the threats to biodiversity from climate change, assisted migration should not....104 The latter section allows the FWS or National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively, the..., legislatures and regulators must institute a comprehensive adaptive management and governance...
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... could help to organize regional and national landscape protections; commitment to management st... legal approaches to protection of biodiversity, broadly, to determine where there is support for ... Science Center) (365) and the National Institutes of Health in their focus on wildlife disease vecto...