Sir Richard & Lady Ground Lecture series to be initiated at March conference Sir Richard and Lady (Dace) Ground at the Haulover Field-Road (nature trail), set up by UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum and Turks & Caicos National Trust. They are holding copies of the trail guides designed by Dace for UKOTCF and featuring Richard’s …
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8 UK organisations join UKOTCF calling for UK Government to give adequate support to UKOT terrestrial conservation Sombrero Black Lizard, a species unique to tiny Sombrero Island, Anguilla – and rating highly too in the new measures. A campaign some 20 years ago coordinated by UKOTCF, other conservation bodies and FCO, prevented total habitat destruction …
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Conference Poster Submission Offers of posters for UKOTCF’s online conference may now be made. Links to background and introductory notes (which carry links to the submission forms) are now available on the main conference page. Submissions need to be made by 8th January.
Forum News 53 published Forum News 53 has been published. (All published newsletters can be accessed here.) It includes the announcement, by popular demand across the territories, of UKOTCFs 6th conference and 1st online, and the welcome news of a new member organisation, the Manx Wildlife Trust. Several articles report major progress on conservation initiatives …
SOWG eBulletin 28 on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin 28 (October 2020) on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease published.
UKOTCF Online Conference 2021 First Announcement UKOTCF announces its online conference “Staying Connected for Conservation in a Changed World” to be held on 2, 3, 9 & 10 March 2021 – the 6th in UKOTCF’s series of conferences for conservation practitioners and decision-makers held since 2000. Arrangements are based on our successful conference series and …
New UKOTCF Southern Oceans Working Group eNewsletter Another UKOTCF Southern Oceans Working Group e-Newsletter (15; September 2020) has been published. All newsletters of SOWG, the other UKOTCF newsletters (including Forum News) can be accessed here, and the direct link to the new SOWG newsletter is here.
11 new species to science (6 endemic) described from Montserrat The part-Darwin-supported study in Montserrat in 2016-18 was led by UKOTCF in partnership with Montana State University (MSU), Montserrat National Trust (MNT), the Government of Montserrat (MoG) Ministry of Agriculture, Trade, Lands, Housing & Environment (MATLHE), and Treweek Environmental Consultants (TEC). One element of the …
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New UKOTCF Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin 27 (Sargassum special) WCWG members have said previously that they would appreciate special editions of the Wider Caribbean Working Group eBulletin, focussing on particular issues. One of these, earlier in the year, was on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease. We are very pleased to publish a special issue …
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Extended deadline for Parliamentary Inquiry into Environmental Democracy The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has published the evidence received so far (including UKOTCF’s) to its inquiry into Environmental Democracy. It has also extended the deadline for submissions from May to 26 August (due to the postponement of the Climate Change CoP and to allow …
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