Early bird extended until 8 May (!) for 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology: Mission Biodiversity — Choosing new paths for conservation

The 27th Inter­na­tional Con­gress for Con­ser­va­tion Biol­ogy (and also the 4th Euro­pean Con­gress for Con­ser­va­tion Biol­ogy) is tak­ing place in Mont­pel­lier in the South of France August 2–6, 2015. This year’s title is “Mis­sion Bio­di­ver­sity — Choos­ing new paths for … Con­tinue read­ing

Information event on the EU’s new Natural Capital Financing Facility (NCFF) on 8 May in Brussels

“To pro­tect the diver­sity of our nat­ural sur­round­ings we need to pro­mote the diver­sity of our fund­ing sources. The Nat­ural Cap­i­tal Financ­ing Facil­ity is a new EU fund­ing source that helps busi­nesses to pro­tect nature and adapt to cli­mate change. … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP webinar this Friday, March 26, 2015: A National Biodiversity Offset Scheme for Liberia’s Mining Sector

I know, it’s a bit short notice, but there is another BBOP webi­nar being held this Fri­day. This time the topic is: “A National Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set Scheme for Liberia’s Min­ing Sec­tor”. Sally John­son, Con­sul­tant, and lead author of a recent World … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP webinar TODAY, Thursday, December 4, 2014: Moving targets and comparing offset methodologies

I know, it’s a bit short notice, but there is another BBOP webi­nar being held in an hour’s time from now. This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as This time the topic is: … Con­tinue read­ing

Today’s BBOP webinar postponed to December 10, 2014!

Today’s BBOP webi­nar on bio­di­ver­sity off­sets in the Ambat­ovy min­ing project in in Mada­gas­car was post­poned on short notice due to tech­ni­cal prob­lems! This coin­ci­dence is maybe not too bad (a new date and time have already been sched­uled) as … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP webinar on Wednesday, November 26, 2014: Biodiversity offsets in the Ambatovy mining project in in Madagascar

This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later). This time the focus is … Con­tinue read­ing

Greenway Planning and Biodiversity Offsetting Webinar on November 26, 2014, presented by Ontario Nature (Canada)

Ontario Nature is hold­ing a free webi­nar on Green­way plan­ning and bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting. This webi­nar will present two recently released Ontario Nature reports: Best Prac­tices Guide to Nat­ural Her­itage Sys­tems Plan­ning and Insights into Bio­di­ver­sity Off­set­ting in Ontario.  Date: Wednes­day … Con­tinue read­ing

Organisation de sessions de formations dans le cadre du projet EC-SMD (request to organize workshops on payments for ecosystem services and environmental certification for a project in Morocco)

This is a guest post on behalf of Moha Had­douch, PES Project national coor­di­na­tor at UNDP Morocco. A project on the pro­tec­tion agro­bio­di­ver­sity in Morocco is seek­ing help with the orga­ni­za­tion of three work­shops in the scope of pay­ments for … Con­tinue read­ing

Introduction to Biodiversity Offsetting, Workshop, 6 November 2014, London

The Char­tered Insti­tute of Ecol­ogy and Envi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment is hold­ing a one-day intro­duc­tory work­shop on bio­di­ver­sity off­set­ting on Novem­ber 6, 2014, 10am — 4pm in Lon­don, man­aged by Dr. Julia Baker. Costs of 90/180 British Pounds apply (member/non-member). Unfor­tu­nately the … Con­tinue read­ing

BBOP webinar on Monday, October 20, 2014: WWF Colombia work on the Pasto-Mocoa road project

This week the Busi­ness and Bio­di­ver­sity Off­sets Pro­gramme has announced its next BBOP webi­nar as part of the BBOP com­mu­nity of prac­tice (all pre­vi­ous webi­nars are archived there if you want to lis­ten to them later). This time the focus is … Con­tinue read­ing