May 10th, 2011 Conservation loses a champion
Conservation family are deeply saddened by the loss of one of nature conservation’s leading lights. Dr Kenton R. Miller, a former IUCN Director General and globally-recognized leader in protected area management, passed away yesterday. Kenton Miller served as IUCN Director General from 1983 to 1988 and recently finished a third term as Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA). He also recently retired as Vice President for Conservation and Development following 15 years of service at the World Resources Institute (WRI).
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Participants from 21 countries and 19 relevant organizations met in Singapore to discuss biodiversity and indigenous and local community aspects of REDD-plus, including relevant safeguards. The workshop was co-organized by the CBD Secretariat and the National Parks Board of Singapore (NParks), with financial support from the Governments of the United Kingdom, and Germany, and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB). 
The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) is pleased to announce that online early registration is now open for its 4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration, August 21-25, 2011 in Merida, Mexico. Participants are encouraged to register early and take advantage of significant discounts. The SER2011 Scientific Program Committee encourages early submission and will begin rolling acceptance on March 1, 2011. For a list of topics and session themes, please visit the Regular Sessions page.
The UN-REDD Programme has released its first 
The rich and unique biodiversity of Madagascar has a new member: a forest dwelling bird in the rail family, dubbed Mentocrex beankaensis. 
After many years in the gestation, WCPA and SSC have launched a joint task force to address the interface between species and protected area conservation. 
The year 2011 was declared the International Year of Forests by the 
The Year of the Tiger in the Chinese lunar calendar comes to an end on Wednesday having yielded big results for its namesake – an unprecedented swell of public and government support to save tigers in the wild, including a historic global recovery programme. The International Tiger Forum, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 2010 marked the first time an international summit was convened to focus on a single, non-human species. The Forum produced the Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a collaboration between the 13 countries that still have wild tigers. It has set a goal of doubling wild tigers by the next Year of the Tiger in 2022.
