What’s it about in short: Launch of the documentary “Banking Nature” When was it released: June 27, 2015 By whom: FERN More info: http://www.fern.org/publications/presentations/banking-nature-will-putting-price-nature-protect-it and https://youtu.be/7DoMQ229Vf8 … Continue reading
French environmental consultancy Biotope is hiring a Chief of Project for the implementation of the mitigation hierarchy in Guinea. Fluency in French and English is a must. Location: Conakry, Guinea Timeframe: 4 years, starting September 2015 closing date for application: not specified … Continue reading
Flora and Fauna International have prepared a short (less than 5 min) animation explaining the impact of human consumption on nature as well as the basic principles and functioning of biodiversity offsets. The video is simply and nicely illustrated. To … Continue reading
Thanks to Martine Maron for sharing this recent job offer for a postdoc at University of Queensland, Australia. Postdoctoral Research Fellow Positions: National Environmental Science Programme – Threatened Species Recovery Hub We are seeking highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellows (up to five … Continue reading
I am at ICCB-ECCB (27th International Congress for Conservation Biology) in Montpellier (France) this whole week (I have blogged about this some weeks ago). That’s a tremendous gathering of more than 2000 conservation scientists and biodiversity experts from all over … Continue reading
Some time ago I have been asked by Divya Narain if I could contribute an article to the latest issue on business and biodiversity of “SQ — raising the sustainability quotient” –the bulletin of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce and … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Derrick Wilkinson who is an economist and director of the UK based consultancy DG Wilkinson. This guest post is the expression of the author’s thoughts and experiences and as such is acknowledged as a … Continue reading
From tomorrow on a two-day conference will examine the future of biodiversity offsetting in Australia. The conference entitled “Biodiversity Offsetting for Mining, Infrastructure and Urban Development” will focus on the complex and challenging task of balancing biodiversity conservation outcomes with … Continue reading
I have just had another meeting with the advisory board of my PhD - working title: “Between regulation and voluntary engagement: development of a typology of voluntary biodiversity offsets using an expert and internet based (netnographic) research approach” — In this … Continue reading
The campaigning NGO FERN, based in the UK and in Brussels, is one of the active opponents of biodiversity offsets. Recently they have published the fourth part of a series on critical briefing notes on biodiversity offsets. This briefing notes … Continue reading