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Recent (and Last) Products of Island Resources Foundation
This Blog Post provides a list of links to the downloadable (.PDF) versions of recent reports published by Island Resource Foundation: Environmental Profile of the Island of Anegada, British Virgin Islands Anegada Environmental Profile, Addenda I, II, III Environmental Profile … [Read more]
UPDATE: Excellent Interview with Felix Dodds on Issues for Rio Plus 20 Conference
In an interview with the Society for International Development (SID), the never-reticent Felix Dodds provides a clear and succinct statement of the global environmental issues that need to be faced by the international community preparing to atten… [Read more]
Final Report on the Status of BVI Island Environmental Profiles
Here’s are links to to the completed profiles for the four major islands of the BVI archipelago, plus the special islet-specific characterizations for 16 cays around Tortola, and added Technical Papers: Profiles: Anegada Environmental Profile Environmental Profile of the Island of … [Read more]
1990 Video about US Virgin Islands National Park
This link passed on by Kevel Lindsay: St. John Virgin Islands National park : National Park Service : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive St. John Virgin Islands National park by National Park Service Published 1990 Usage Public Domain Topics nps.gov, public.resource.org National Park … [Read more]
Review of Threats to Tropical Coastal Ecosystem Services
Dr. Edwin A. Hernández-Delgado of the University of Puerto Rico has just had an important new publication accepted in Volume 101, 15 December, pp 5-28 of the Marine Pollution Bulletin, entitled, “The emerging threats of climate change on tropical coastal … [Read more]
IRF Projects from 1971 to 2014
The long table below displays the 230 projects, worth a total of over $9.1 million in external funding, that Island Resources Foundation has executed since its founding in the early 1970s (incorporated in 1970, operational in 1972, and sunsetted in … [Read more]
John Mussington of Barbuda Receives Euan McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award for 2014
Island Resources Foundation Announces the 2014 Winner of the Euan McFarlane Award for Environmental Leadership is John Mussington of Barbuda John Mussington, educator, marine biologist, social entrepreneur, and prominent environmental advocate was named today as the 24th annual recipient of … [Read more]
Notice of the Loss of Christopher Howell, Caribbean Environmental Analyst
As Judith Towle began to muster information and experts to write the Tortola Environmental Profile in the British Virgin Islands this past January, we realized that we were missing input from long-time Program Associate and an early (1975) intern for … [Read more]
Euan McFarlane Nominations Due: 31 March 2014
The attachment to this post provides details on the 2014 competition for the Euan McFarlane Environmental Leadership for the Insular Caribbean that you can download, print and post. 2014_McFarlane_Nominations_Open The information is repeated below — THE EUAN P. McFARLANE ENVIRONMENTAL … [Read more]
Research Study: Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Coastal Zone Management in the US Virgin Islands
Over the past year we have been consulting with some of the students in the graduate School of Forestry of Yale University on some papers that were written as a product of their field visit to the United States Virgin … [Read more]
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