In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly declared June 17 the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought to promote public awareness of the issue, and the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification. Desertification is also serious and Read more…
The Chapter 12 ‘Biodiversity Modelling Experiences in Ukraine’ has been published by IGI in the book ‘Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications. See Abstract of the Ch.12 [about which we have informed our readers last year] as well as final Table of Contents & List of Read more…
The United Nations proclaimed May 22 The International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues…
World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD) was initiated in 2006 and is a global awareness-raising campaign highlighting the need for the protection of migratory birds and their habitats…
The Conference-2011 for Young Scientists took place in central office of the Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NASU (Kyiv). BioModel team presented to it improved SDM of Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Eastern Europe. The species distribution model was based on GLM approach in accordance with GLOBIO methods. The Red squirrel Read more…
There is example of modern modelling visualisation resource i.e. GIS on earthquakes near Japan: http://www.japanquakemap.com/today
2 February each year is World Wetlands Day. It marks the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on 2 February 1971, in the Iranian city of Ramsar on the shores of the Caspian Sea. Each year since 1997, government agencies, NGOs and groups of citizens at all Read more…
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests to raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests. Forests are cover 31% of terrestrial surface, 13% of the forest are protected natural areas. The natural forests in Ukraine are located Read more…
Students write about… Starushik N.S. Modelling Stages Research for Indicative-indices Approach Based on NUBIP Agricultural Network. The Master’s Work for the specialty 6.070800 ‘Ecology and the Environmental Conservation’. Kyiv: NUBiP, 2010.–120 p. (see ukr)
