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Amazon symposium to address large-scale conservation

...s for explosive frontier expansion. These mounting threats to the Amazon require large-scale, integrated approaches to conservation that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Large-scale conservation of the greater Amazon Basin region will depend upon (1) conservation analyses that describe the complex ...

Primates on the brink

...agascar, and four from South America, showing that threats to monkeys, lemurs, great apes and other non-human primates exist wherever they live. All 25 primates on the 2004-2006 list are found in the world's biodiversity hotspots-34 regions identified by Conservation International that cover just 2.3 percen...

TrueBlue Archive Will Store Raw Life Sciences Data for Proteomics and Drug Testing

... bioterrorism, medical count ermeasures, emerging threats and future preparation, and development of diagnostic tests for identifying biological warfare pathogens. Intended for researchers, physicians, and policy makers, Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism offers a detaile...

Comprehensive biodefense text published

... bioterrorism, medical count ermeasures, emerging threats and future preparation, and development of diagnostic tests for identifying biological warfare pathogens. Intended for researchers, physicians, and policy makers, Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism offers a detaile...

Chemicals in tattoo inks need closer scrutiny

...too inks, and to determine if any inks pose health threats in the form of heavy metals or other potentially dangerous chemicals. Overall, the study covers 17 inks from five different manufacturers. "We chose to study five different brands of black ink as it is the most common color used in tattoos," Finley-...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

...s Hawaii) * East Melanesian Islands (NEW) The threats to the hotspots include: habitat destruction; invasive species; direct human exploitation of species for food, medicine, and the pet trade; and climate change, which magnifies the effects of habitat destruction and fragmentation. The latest analysis...

South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...r, global climate change poses great environmental threats to wetlands," according to the analysis, "fundamen...use and climate change," the analysis says. Local threats to the Pantanal "Traditional Pantanal commodities ?mainly cattle and fishing ?cannot compete in tod...

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