Story | 04 6 月, 2008

IUCN Pan-European Newsletter 16: Islands of Hope

This newsletter issue focuses on island conservation, in preparation of the conference "The European Union and its Overseas Entities: Strategies to counter Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss”, taking place from 7-11 July 2008 in Reunion Island.

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Contents:

Editorial (Tamás Marghescu, IUCN Regional Director for Europe)
On the front line: The EU’s overseas islands battle climate change (Jeffrey McNeely and Jérôme Petit, IUCN)
Small islands cannot adapt ad infinitum (Rolph Payet, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)
Reunion: Island biodiversity of international relevance (Alain Brondeau, Reunion Island National Park)
Overseas biodiversity at the heart of global challenges (Jean-Philippe Palasi, IUCN)
Conserving New Caledonia’s dry forests (Hubert Géraux, New Caledonia ecoregional coordinator, WWF-France)
Model ecosystem in Moorea (Neil Davies, Executive Director of the University of California Berkeley’s Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea)
Manage invasive alien species on islands (Dr Sugoto Roy, Central Science Laboratory)
Sailing to Barcelona (Sarah Gindre, IUCN)
Prized National Park ‘Hoge Kempen’ (Ignace Schops, Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland)
News from IUCN Europe
Events and Publications