Dear ECOLOGers, Please find the 2 last weeks posts from BCLS (weeks 12nd-25th August). Reminder: you can post or interact with the authors of these posts by joining the BCLS community on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 See instructions for joining the community at the bottom of this message (after description of posts).
*Post 1* Conserving Ecological Resources for Traditional Medicine: Global Overview and case Study from Uganda, by Dr. B. Montanari https://plus.google.com/103754576453053002659/posts/Fgx4VhbSXAZ *Post 2* Improve indigenous access to crop varieties maintained by genebanks to adapt to climate change in Bolivia & Malaysia (supported by the Christensen Fund ) https://plus.google.com/113715128728162470816/posts/a2hkN2mLxmB *Post 3* Youtube record of the Hangout webinar: Community/Environmental psychology approaches for resilient biocultural landscapes, by MA G. Stankov https://plus.google.com/101053449641364200981/posts/gWBD9SHRQwr *Post 4* Ma'afu Conservation lecture series: Dr. Trisha Watson discusses the integration of Local Culture in Conservation practice, by MSc S. Campbell https://plus.google.com/105070666554918610430/posts/9e9aKr76jaA *Post 5* Should we consider revitalising rural villages rather than building new ecovillages? by MSc Steven Liaros https://plus.google.com/102915482316499839857/posts/LQ92bBJk9ev *Post 6* Training Camp to Defend all the life in the soil for the health of local people, by M. Vitalis https://plus.google.com/105523777479581150147/posts/XbzqSKyWs8P *Post 7* Cooperative/Intentional communities to address simultaneously ecological, economic and social issue, by MSc Steven Liaros https://plus.google.com/102915482316499839857/posts/FWodt9CRjpA *Post 8* On the importance of making local and indigenous people's voices heard in the new UN-IPBES framework for biodiversity and ecosystem services. https://plus.google.com/113715128728162470816/posts/9ez8VpQVgoU *Post 9* Responsibility, Obligation and Debt in social-ecological systems. how culture acts in the physical world to convert our natural environment to our built environment. by MSc Steven Liaros: https://plus.google.com/102915482316499839857/posts/JYXcUBUavbs *Post 10* New video from Slow Food (EU funded project) demonstrates very simply how agrobiodiversity and interlinked diversity of local custodians offers greater resilience, more nutritional options, opportunities to raise incomes, a reservoir of plants to use for medicine, and most importantly a safeguard for our future food supply, by John Finnell https://plus.google.com/109618900798343953535/posts/8Ej23dGxaXj *Post 11* Gund Fellow, Josh Farley, discusses the conflict between ecosystem services and food production. Josh explains some of the research he's been working on in the Brazilian Atlantic Forests to implement agroforestry practices and economic institutions with farmers in the region. https://plus.google.com/113715128728162470816/posts/EjfnLfJqqZH *Post 12* Deconstructing Health Disparities and linkages with cultural and natural environment, by Becca P https://plus.google.com/112477546579079599901/posts/hczFZgQXSPX *Post 13* Presentation of the Sustainable SITES Initiative created to promote sustainable land development and management practices that promote simultaneously biodiversity and human wellbeing for any type of formal or informal biocultural habitats in cities, including industrial, retail and office parks, military complexes, airports, botanical gardens, streetscapes and plazas, residential and commercial developments and public and private campuses, by EcoSnark https://plus.google.com/107675667770603428387/posts/BRW5dYo3BND *Post 14* how wildlife conservation and sustainable fisheries are linked in the Mekong Basin, and about our household surveys of wildlife consumption in Laos, by the Fishbio research Lab.: https://plus.google.com/103047634022293926091/posts/XYTCeVGBmAz Post 15* Self-introduction of Bruce Farnsworth: Conservation Photographer, journalist (Smithsonian and National Geographic), PhD candidate at California State Polytechnic University at the intersection between zoology, Traditional ecological knowledge and ecotourism: https://plus.google.com/115126553928190708007/posts/fVUrcjvMBJG *Post 16* Job central: NSF opportunities that have come in fisheries with NOAA for 36 months fellowships: https://plus.google.com/103754576453053002659/posts/KxQneG45T9Z *Post 17* International Society for Ethnobiology Darrell Posey Fellowship Program who is offering several fellowships: https://plus.google.com/103754576453053002659/posts/59jPJvuWQZk If you dont have a Google+ account yet, follow these 3 steps to join the BCLS community: 1. Create a Google+ account as explained in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMIO3YvylEk 2. Click on https://plus.google.com/communities/110834970079444098643 3. Click on the red icon "join community" Kind regards, the BCLS community manager Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt Office: +61 (0)7 3833 5680 jean-baptiste.pichanco...@csiro.au CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences Ecoscience Precinct (GC-west), 41 Boggo road, Dutton Park QLD 4102, Australia
