The Bavarian Academy for Nature Protection and Rural Conservation (ANL) is a state supported teaching and research institute for nature protection and rural conservation. It was instituted by a decision of the Bavarian State Government in 1976 and belongs to the portfolio of the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment, Health, and Consumer Protection. It is situated in Laufen an der Salzach. The Bavarian Academy for Nature Protection and Rural Conservation primarily provides new results from the areas of nature protection, rural conservation, and ecology, through more than 100 events. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
The Australian Institute of Marine Science is one of the most innovative and progressive research laboratories in the world with unparalleled capability in the field of cutting-edge tropical marine science and technology. AIMS was established by the Australian Government in 1972 under the Australian Institute of Marine Science Act 1972 in recognition of the importance of marine assets, especially the Great Barrier Reef, to Australia. Today AIMS is recognised worldwide for the quality of its research into marine environments, and their resources including biotechnology and aquaculture. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Bavarian Forest Institute (LWF) conducts forest research in a targeted and applicatory way. Its main objective is to design practical and concrete concepts for everyone dealing with forests and forestry. The institute is responsible for the development of skills, fundamentals and methods that contribute to: understand complex issues of the biocoenosis of the forest, anticipate risks, design forest management in a way that combines the economic use, the sustainable conservation of all resources and the protective functions in an optimal manner. ... [Information of the supplier]
Switzerland is one of the first countries in the world to monitor its biological diversity. The Federal Office for the environment (FOEN) has launched a programme for this purpose called Biodiversity Monitoring in Switzerland (BDM). In conjunction with the BDM programme, experts contracted by the Federal Government will regularly count animals and plants in numerous predetermined areas in the field. Whereas numerical qualitative objectives are accepted in most areas of environmental protection (emissions thresholds in air pollution control, for example), there are so far no targets for how biodiversity should change. Biodiversity monitoring helps us to define specific targets for nature conservation policy and to establish whether the measures that have been implemented are enabling us to reach these targets. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Biological Records Centre (BRC), established in 1964, is the national focus in the UK for terrestrial and freshwater species recording (other than birds). It works with the voluntary recording community throughout Britain and Ireland. The BRC database contains over 15 million records of more than 12000 species. BRC is the national custodian of data on the distribution of wildlife in the British Isles. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) is a mechanism set up by the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to facilitate the exchange of information on Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) and assist the Parties to better comply with their obligations under the Protocol. Global access to a variety of scientific, technical, environmental, legal and capacity building information is provided in all 6 of the UN languages. ... [Information of the supplier]
The primary objectives of Botanical Survey of India are as follows: 1. Exploration, inventorisation and documentation of phytodiversity (including non-flowering plants) in general and protected areas, hotspots, fragile ecosystems, wetlands, sacred groves in particular; publication of National, State and District Floras. 2. Identification of Red list species and species rich areas needing conservation; ex-situ conservation of critically threatened taxa in the Botanical Gardens. 3. Survey and documentation of traditional knowledge (ethnobotany) associated with plants. 4. Develop a national database of Indian plants including herbarium specimens, live specimens, Botanical paintings /illustrations etc. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz) is the Federation’s central scientific authority for national and international conservation. It belongs to the business division of the Federal Environment Ministry (Bundesumweltministerium) and administers important tasks in the realisation of international species conservation, marine conservation, the Antarctic Agreement and the Gene Technology Act. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
The German Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety launched the "Business and Biodiversity Initiative" and commissioned GTZ - the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH to carry out its implementation. This initiative aims to intensify the engagement of the private sector in achieving the objectives of the Convention on Biological Diversity by encouraging: ... Companies to incorporate the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into their management systems by signing and implementing the Leadership Declaration; ... Companies to publish their best practices; ... Companies to actively take part in the 10th Conference of Parties in Nagoya/Japan in 2010; ... and to broaden the international profile of the initiative. ... [Information of the supplier]
Studying the immense variety of life on the planet and the complex relations among living things—what we now call biodiversity—has been a fundamental activity of the American Museum of Natural History since its founding. In 1993, responding to concern among its scientists over rapid species loss and increasing habitat degradation around the world, the Museum created the interdisciplinary Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. The Center’s mission is to mitigate critical threats to global biological and cultural diversity by advancing scientific research in diverse ecosystems, by strengthening the application of science to conservation practice and public policy, by developing professional, institutional, and community capacity, and by furthering the Museum's efforts to heighten public understanding and stewardship of biodiversity. ... [Information of the supplier]
