Conservation and science meetups since 201X.
Written by Amy Harmon, the NYTimes article published yesterday describes the latest in the battle for open access science:
"On Feb. 29, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University became the third Nobel Prize laureate biologist in a month to do something long considered taboo among biomedical researchers: She posted a report of her recent discoveries to a publicly accessible website, bioRxiv, before submitting it to a scholarly journal to review for “official’’ publication.
Get excited .::. The 1st Singapore Eco Film Fest #SGEFF is taking place this year and Biodiversity Connections is one of the community partners!
Asian Species Action Partnership (ASAP!) is an interagency coalition to address the extinction risk among the most threatened non-marine vertebrates of Southeast Asia. Organizations within the international conservation community are joining forces to minimise impending extinctions in this area of the world, where habitat loss, trade and hunting has contributed to a dramatic loss of its rich and incredible biodiversity.
From Sept 26 - 29, the 1st Asian Songbird Crisis Summit was held at the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore.
“If we wish our environment in Singapore to be a sustainable green environment, we have to start talking about insects,” said Mr [Carl] Baptista [of Pollen Nation]. “We have lots of tropical native flowering plants, native trees, but you can’t have that if you don’t have your pollinators present.”