Devopriya Dutta Tarumitra (friends of trees in Hindi and Sanskrit) is a movement that evolved from the Forum for Environment that students started in 1988,
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An unexpected success, Nagoya summit offers hope for future environment talks
It does not often happen that an international top-level environment conference receives positive comments and a broad welcome, even from environmental organizations. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s 10th Conference of the Parties (COP 10) however, held in Nagoya from 18 to 29 October 2010, is generally considered a to be a decisive and even historic step towards an effective protection of biodiversity.
Breathtaking Figures: New Studies on Status and Economics of Earth’s Biodiversity
The general trends of the worldwide ecosystem degradation are commonly well-known for long. Among the most recent studies however, two documentations released on the occasion of the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity 2010 deliver new and mostly alarming figures on the real extent of the world’s biodiversity losses. And for the first time ever, the economic and monetary values of Earth’s biological infrastructure and the manifold services it delivers for human welfare are taken into account within a comprehensive approach.