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05/19/09 - Breaking news on the web
Breaking news on the web. We launch a new page highlighting recent informations available on the web about Andiroba, Carapa in America and other Kobi or Touloucouna in Africa. (generated by Google Alert). This is for a non-profit goal.
- Unit to Market Amazon Oils
- Prince Charles journeys deep into the Amazon rainforest
- Brasil dona a Bolivia diez toneladas de insecticidas para combatir...
- A luta indígena é contra extinção da humanidade
- Pesquisa investiga forma de inibir praga em mogno
- Amazônia ganha rede de pesquisa em biocosméticos
- Instituições amazônicas lançam edital da Redebio em Belém
- Sammeln für den Regenwald
- COMMENT SE SOIGNER(1) - Bienvenue sur le portail de Lesoleilinfos...
- Laboratoire de Physiologie digestive. Hôpital Broussais
- REPUBLIQUE DE GUINEE
- La clôture, une signature au pays des Peuls de Guinée
- Reflexions relatives aux systemes de reconnaissance et de...
05/19/09 - News : Marketing Amazon oils
Marketing andiroba oils for comestics. "Unit Brazil, a brokering company headquartered in Sao Paulo, has just been hired as the export agent to market amazon oils and butters..." More. Amazon oil are attracting attention of cosmtic market, but will it save the Amazon forest ? We can doubt unless animals and plant are conserved and protected in the wild.
03/08/09 - Women's day : a day to celebrate parity in the world
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How to celebrate women's day : by talking about parity. Cf. Unesco. Rwanda is among the best exemple (see 2005 but also 2006). Let's present a rwandese scientists : Aisha Nyiramana (here in front of a Parinari exelsa, with Ferdinand, Parc Guide) who is studying Carapa grandiflora in Rwanda in the Nyungwe National Park (Photos : P.-M. Forget).
Other links about Nyungwe National Park.
03/04/09 - Symposium about organic cotton in West Africa
A symposium about organic cotton and carapa oil will be organized during the forthcoming Joint Meeting of Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation & Society for Tropical Ecology in Marburg, Germany 27.-30.07.2009. The meeting thema is Impacts of Global Change on Tropical Ecosystems - cross-cutting the Abiotic, Biotic and Human Spheres. Symposium's Abstract. See also Biocotton
01/01/09 - Charles Darwin 2009 Commemorations
The bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of on The Origin of Species are being celebrated by events and publications around the world. (Source Wikipedia). Whether Charles Darwin had visited both Central Africa and the Amazon or the Guianas during his tribulation around the globe with HMS Beagle, he would have met different species of Carapa on both continents, very alike indeed, despite being separated by thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic ocean. These observations would have been further evidence that migration most likely explain such discountinuous distribution. Thus, to celebrate Darwin 's 2009 year, let's simply remind his own words in Chapter 11 about Geographical Distribution "On these views, it is obvious, that the several species of the same genus, though inhabiting the most distant quarters of the world, must originally have proceeded from the same source, as they have descended from the same progenitor." (visit News at fsd2010.org and atbc2008.org that also celebrate Darwin's year)
12/22/08 - 1st call AETFAT, 25 April-1 May 2010, Antanarivo, Madagascar
The XIXth AETFAT Congress will take place in 2010 in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The organising committee consists of the Madagascar Botanists Consortium (MBC) which regroups all the botanists of national or international institutions or associations working in the field of Botany in Madagascar. Web