BioBulletin: In Search of Wild Variety

AMNH Science Bulletins:
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=b.s.wild_variety.20101101&src=b

BioBulletin: Making Medicine From Nature

AMNH Science Bulletins: http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=b.s.biodiversity_goods.20100920&src=l

Eleanor Sterling Discusses Importance of Biodiversity

Students at the CBC

The CBC is very proud to support the professional development of the next generation of conservation scientists. Click here to learn more about the work of our graduate students.

	Georgina Cullman People, Values, and Land Use in Madagascar
	Liz Nichols Dung beetles, mammal hunting, and ecosystem functioning
	Leo Douglas Conservation in human-dominated landscapes

Podcast: Children's Health and Healthy Ecosystems Thursday, May 13

The American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) partnered with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and United Nations Children’s Development Programme, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine on April 30, 2010 to discuss the role of biodiversity and ecosystems in relation to children’s health.

This panel discussion highlighted the role of biodiversity and ecosystems in meeting U.N. Millennium Development Goals to reduce child mortality and to promote child health and well being.

Panelists included Aaron Bernstein, Harvard Center for Health and Global Environment; Sigrid Hahn, associate director of Mount Sinai Global Health Center; Montira J. Pongsiri, of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Erika Vohman, director of The Equilibrium Fund.

Podcast: Download | RSS | iTunes (1 hr 23 mins, 95.8 MB)

About the International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations marked 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity in an effort to raise awareness about the importance of biodiversity conservation, and to encourage the world’s leaders, institutions, organizations, industries and citizens to take action to abate current rates of biodiversity loss.

The CBC has joined a group of institutions from around the world to support the International Year of Biodiversity. Since 1993 the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation has been applying the American Museum of Natural History’s extensive scientific and educational resources to conservation policy and action. The CBC develops strategic partnerships to expand scientific knowledge about diverse species and ecosystems; enhances the use of scientific data to mitigate critical threats to global biological and cultural diversity, and to apply this knowledge to conservation; develops professional, institutional, and community capacity for biodiversity conservation; and heightens public understanding and stewardship for biodiversity. Working both locally and around the world, the CBC develops model programs that integrate research, education, and outreach so that people — a key factor in the rapid loss of biodiversity — will become participants in its conservation.

During 2010, we will highlight interesting aspects of biodiversity and biodiversity conservation on our website. This content will be updated periodically throughout the year, so please visit us often!

Come visit our Features and Highlights for IYB 2010:

Parasite Biodiversity

Bio Bulletin: Dung Beetles Help From the Ground Up

Bio Bulletin: Discovering the Ocean's Microscopic World

Species you didn’t know existed

AMNH Podcasts on the International Year of Biodiversity