News & Blog
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]
New Erosion and Reef Impact Study in Coral Bay Watershed, St. John, USVI
[Below is an excerpt from Dr. Carlos Ramos’s faculty blog at the University of Texas <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/geography/news/6971> about the kick-off for this new project. Carlos is IRF’s Program Coordinator for the Effects of Land Use on Soil Erosion and Marine Habitats.] In … [Read more]
Mangroves Can Cope with Sea Level Rise by Increasing Soil Height
[From a post by the Washington Office of IUCN, to the DC Marine Conservation e-mail group] 30-Jul-2013 A new report by The Nature Conservancy and Wetlands International shows that mangroves can adapt … [Read more]
Patricia Turpin Selected for 2013 Euan P. McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award
On June 19th, 2013, Judith Ann Towle, founding vice president of Island Resources Foundation and chair of the selection committee for the Euan McFarlane Environmental Leadership Award, announced that Ms. Patricia J. Turpin, president of Environment Tobago, would be 2013’s beneficiary of … [Read more]
Why is Facebook Important and What Should Island NGOs Do About it
The attached slide show provides useful information for local NGO leaders who wonder, “Will participating in Facebook will help us be more competitive?” in a world where the mega-NGOs are hoovering up ever larger shares of voluntary contributions from local … [Read more]
Categories
- All Blog Posts
- Biodiversity
- BVI
- Caribbean
- Climate Change
- Coastal Zone Management
- Conservation
- Coral Reef
- Development
- Disaster Management
- Eco-tourism
- Ecosystem Services
- Environmental Planning
- Environmental Profile
- Erosion and Sedimentation
- Fisheries
- Harmonization
- History
- Institutional Development
- Jost van Dyke
- Leadership
- Multi-lateral Environmental Agreement
- O'Neal
- Resource Protection
- Sandy Cay
- Sea Level Rise
- Technology
- USVI
- Videos
- Virgin Gorda
- Wetlands