Biodiversity and Forestry Seminars
ABCG Upcoming Event: Conservation Enterprises Integrating Conservation Goals into Development
This virtual event is a part of a monthly series of webinars hosted by the Global Wildlife Program (GWP), a seven-year Global Environment Facility (GEF) funded program developed as a response to the growing crisis of illicit wildlife trade.
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme Webinar Announcement: From biodiversity Offsets to Target-Based Compensation - 23 October 2018
In this BBOP presentation, Martine Maron and Jeremy Simmonds will provide an overview of the concept of target-based compensatory conservation. This involves linking compensation for project-level impacts to broader biodiversity conservation goals, and resolving identified challenges around the concept of…
Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme Webinar - Thursday 20 Sept: Ensuring No Net Loss for people and biodiversity
Governments, businesses, and lenders worldwide are adopting an objective of no net loss (NNL) or Net Gain (NG) of biodiversity and using the 'mitigation hierarchy' to achieve it. Although ecological challenges to achieve NNL are debated, social impacts associated with…
ABCG It's All in Our Heads: Protecting Biodiversity with Behavior-Centered Design
Ever notice that almost all environment and sustainability challenges - from climate change to overfishing to biodiversity loss - share one thing in common? In order to solve them, people have to start behaving differently. But people are complicated social…
Advancing a Integrated Vision that Incorporates Health Outcomes into Biodiversity Conservation
Members from the Global Health Linkages to Biodiversity Conservation working group will present on year two progress toward objectives in implementing pilot activities in Western Tanzania and Southeastern Cameroon, and sharing recommendations for integrating nutrition and food security interventions into…
ABCG Event: Getting Consumers to Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Urban Bushmeat Demand in Congo
The speakers of this ABCG seminar will describe the interdisciplinary framework of a two year pilot project to identify the key drivers behind urban bushmeat consumption in Pointe Noire, Republic of Congo, and present preliminary criminology, social, and market research…
ABCG Event: Using USAID's Applied Political Economy Assessment Framework to Improve Conservation Outcomes
Biodiversity conservation in the context of extractives is associated with the collapse of resource regimes, which occurs as a result of increased pressures on resources from new practices or people. It also can be credited to the political and economic…
ABCG Event Reminder: Partnering to Improve Habitat Conservation for the Endangered Eastern Chimpanzee in Northern DRC
Jef Dupain, renowned Primatologist and AWF Technical Director for West & Central Africa, will present highlights of progress made to date, as well as a vision for the future to establish a lasting conservation plan for flagship species in the…
Webinar Announcement: Marine Offsets at the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania
A symposium focusing on marine biodiversity offsetting was organized as part of the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania (SCBO) meeting, in Brisbane in July. The meeting brought together researchers working in academia, NGO and private industry to discuss the current…
Conservation Diplomacy: Mountain Gorillas and the Greater Virunga Landscape
Anna Behm Masozera will share the experience of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme (IGCP) and the role of mountain gorillas in fostering collaboration for conservation within the African Great Lakes Region.
Fish, Forks, and Food Security: The Importance of Wild Fisheries to Food and Job Security
Wild fisheries were highlighted in a recent Ag Sector Council Seminar hosted by Agrilinks.
Soil carbon in East Africa—centerpiece for carbon finance, climate adaptation and development
Please join us for an ABCG brown bag presentation featuring: Mark E. Ritchie, Professor, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY; and President, Soils for the Future, LLC.
Wildlife law enforcement: A dissection of the challenges and the available tools
Greetings! Please join ABCG for a presentation featuring: Naftali Honig, Coordinator of PALF; and Founding Director, the EAGLE Network.
Webinar 14 December -The Next Generation of Mitigation: Principles and New Policies for Achieving Sustainable Development
Seats remain for this webinar in which, Bruce McKenney of The Nature Conservancy will highlight mitigation principles and recent policies that are transforming approaches to sustainable development. He will discuss TNC's principles for applying the mitigation hierarchy and focus on…
Webinar announcement, 30 July - Impacts of Biodiversity Offsets on Protected Areas
Biodiversity offsets are increasingly being used by business to compensate for the residual impacts of development and fulfill voluntary, financial or regulatory commitments. The relationship between biodiversity offsets and Protected Areas is an important practical issue. In many countries protected…
Making Good Things Big: Scaling Up of Fish Forever, a Pathway to Sustained Incomes for Fishers
Please join ABCG with RARE for a brown bag talk featuring: Larry Cooley, Founder and President of Management Systems International and Eric Coppenger, Senior Director of Rare's Global Development Network
ECOLinks Webinar: Innovative Knowledge Systems for Improved Land Management
ECOLinks Webinar on Innovative Knowledge Systems for Improved Land Management
Webinar announcement: The Cross Sector Biodiversity Initiative - Mitigation Hierarchy Guide
Please join us for a webinar presentation: Monday, 18 May at 3:00pm UK (10:00 am EDT) - The Cross Sector Biodiversity Initiative Mitigation Hierarchy Guide
ABCG-AWF Event: Responding to Africa's Wildlife Poaching Crisis
Please join us for a brown bag presentation by: Philip Muruthi, Senior Director of Conservation Science, the African Wildlife Foundation
Webinar announcement: Liberia Biodiversity Offset Scheme - Friday 27 March
Sally Johnson, Consultant, and lead author of the report, and Kirsten Hund, Senior Mining Specialist at the World Bank will discuss the advantages and risks for both conservation and economic development of a national biodiversity offsets scheme for Liberia. What…