UN YEAR OF BIODIVERSITYThe UN declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity (IYB). Throughout the year countless initiatives will be organized to disseminate information, promote the protection of biodiversity and encourage organizations, institutions, companies and individuals to take direct action to reduce the constant loss of biological diversity worldwide. The Thomas Foundation has joined up as a partner and we urge all those concerned about biodiversity loss and more importantly biodiversity management to join up. This is an opportunity to bring focus to the issue that concerns us. Click here to visit the Countdown 2010 website.
"2010 - the International Year of Biodiversity, what philanthropy and you can do about it"The sciences that underpin our understanding of the biological world we live in, particularly ecology, have a relatively short history. In fact ecology, as we now know it, largely dates from post World War II though you can make plenty of links into earlier scientific work in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. A number of great writers such as George Perkins Marsh, John Muir and Aldo Leopold in the USA and conservation organisations like the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society drew attention to the attrition of the plants and animals that go to make up biodiversity, in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it was only post World War II that mass organisations and public movements really took off. |
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