The Next Generation of Ecosystem Market Tools
by Doug Parsons, Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
Defenders of Wildlife has been a leader in developing effective and innovative ecosystem service tools, as their recent work attests. Defenders can also take the lead in identifying the next generation of ecosystem service market tools–those which can quantify the value [...]
Registry staff had a sneak peek at the all new My Registry–redesigned to allow users to work together on Registry projects. These tools, free to all, will give organizations or groups the ability to grant access to their Registry data to multiple users. Currently, users can only edit and update the projects that they have [...]
Washington Biodiversity Council has a new video slideshow, Washington’s Biodiversity: Celebrating the Richness of Life, now playing at www.biodiversity.wa.gov.
In talking about how to best track adaptation activities, we’ve had to face up to some interesting questions about climate change and conservation: What is climate change adaptation, exactly? How do we know it when we see it? How can we figure out what's adaptive and what's not in a world where future conditions are so uncertain?
Stanley Point/South Willapa Bay Conservation Added: Fri. Feb. 05, 2010
Washington Department of Ecology was awarded $1 million to permanently protect a total of 705 acres of high quality wetlands including estuarine emergent salt marsh, eelgrass meadows, mud flats, ma...
Totten Inlet Estuarine Habitat Acquisition Added: Fri. Feb. 05, 2010
The Washington Department of Ecology, in partnership with Capitol Land Trust, USFWS, Pacific Coast Joint Venture, the Squaxin Island Tribe, Taylor Shellfish Farms, and the Salmon Recovery Funding B...
Cloverdale Cienega Restoration Project Added: Thu. Feb. 04, 2010
Sky Island Alliance and partners are in the final phases of restoration planning and implementation for the ciénega and creek that occupy the upper Cloverdale Valley. Due to large-scale man-made di...
Bordentown bat houses Added: Fri. Jan. 29, 2010
Elementary school putting up 3 bat houses in the Bordentown City area
McArthur Lake Wildlife Corridor Added: Thu. Jan. 28, 2010
The McArthur Lake Wildlife Corridor Project includes the aquisition of a perpetual conservation easement to protect important private timberlands in the narrowest and most viable linkage between th...