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An incredible resource for wildlife watching freely available online: EOL Field Guides. From its website http://fieldguides.eol.org/:  The EOL Field Guide tool is a new way to create customized guides based on authoritative EOL content. Start with a list of species and then choose which text and images to include. You can also edit the text information to suit your own needs.

Vía SDI-LatinAmericaCaribbean mailing list SDI-LatinAmericaCaribbean@lists.gsdi.org http://lists.gsdi.org/mailman/listinfo/sdi-latinamericacaribbean

La revista Parques de la Oficina Regional de la FAO presenta su último número del año pasado dedicado al tema del cambio climático y las áreas protegidas. http://www.rlc.fao.org/es/tecnica/parques/revista/default.htm

World Wildlife Fund is announcing the 2011 Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Fellowships to support doctoral and postdoctoral research on marine protected areas (MPAs) that shows promise to enhance scientific understanding of their ecological and social impacts and that will strengthen science-based conservation and policy in the  WWF-US priority marine regions.

Fuller Postdoctoral Fellows receive $140,000 to cover a stipend and
research expenses over a period of up to two years. In addition, up to
$17,500 will be granted to cover indirect costs at the host
institution over the two-year fellowship period. Doctoral Fellows
receive either $15,000 or $20,000, depending on the location of their
research and home universities, allocated over a period of up to 2
years to cover research expenses.
The deadline for application submission is January 31, 2011.

For more information on the Fuller Doctoral Fellowship, please visit:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/doctoralfund.html

For more information on the Fuller Postdoctoral Fellowship, please visit:
http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/postdoctoral-fellowships.html

The last issue of Biotropica (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.2010.42.issue-5/issuetoc_) includes a number of short papers about some contentius subjects in conservation biology. All of these papers are freely available from Biotropica’s web site. A must-read for every conservation practicioner.

Calado, H. & A. Gil (Editors). 2010. “Geographic Technologies applied to Marine Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management”. CIGPT – Geographic Information and Land Planning Center. University of the Azores. Ponta Delgada, Portugal. 166 pp. ISBN: 978-972-8612-64-1

Free download from Scribd  http://bit.ly/9WnJVz

Revisar aquí http://www.sernanp.gob.pe/sernanp/documento.jsp?ID=7

Via Antonio Tovar

Nuevas áreas protegerán alrededor de 120,000 ha de bosque montano.

http://www.pucp.edu.pe/climadecambios/index.php?tmpl=articulo&id=944

Conservation Biology has published three ‘virtual issues’ of Conservation Biology for the International Year of Biodiversity.  The issues each include 10-15 previously published articles from Conservation Biology and they are made available  free of charge (gratis).

• Connectivity and Corridors, April 2010
• Climate Change, April 2010
• Conservation Social Science, April 2010

Recent paper in PNAS:  http://www.pnas.org/citmgr?gca=pnas;107/22/9996

Abstract
As global efforts to protect ecosystems expand, the socioeconomic impact of protected areas on neighboring human communities continues to be a source of intense debate. The debate persists because previous studies do not directly measure socioeconomic outcomes and do not use appropriate comparison groups to account for potential confounders. We illustrate an approach using comprehensive national datasets and quasi-experimental matching methods. We estimate impacts of protected area systems on poverty in Costa Rica and Thailand and find that although communities near protected areas are indeed substantially poorer than national averages, an analysis based on comparison with appropriate controls does not support the hypothesis that these differences can be attributed to protected areas. In contrast, the results indicate that the net impact of ecosystem protection was to alleviate poverty.