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2010 Jul 02 This is the International Year of Biodiversity and the African Conservation Centre a Kenyan sister organization of the US African Conservation Fund, one of the Foundation’s grantees, is playing a significant role in creating and hosting an international conference on biodiversity and climate change. The session planners hope it will lead to a national and regional biodiversity framework that takes into account projected changes in land use and climate.

Together with Kenya Wildlife Service, National Museums of Kenya, Department of Remote Sensing and Resource Surveys, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development and Kenya Forest Service, ACC will host the “Kenya International Conference on Biodiversity and Climate Change” to take place in Nairobi, September, 15-17, 2010. For more information contact Lucy Waruingi at Lucy.Waruingi@acc.or.ke

News Around the World

    Elephantiasis
   PresseText News - DNA-Barcode gegen heimtuckische Erkrankungen .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   GenomeWeb News - DNA Barcoding Employed In Effort to Halt Tropical Disease Spread .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   JRS Noguchi News - DNA Barcoding of Mosquito Species .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   Public Agenda - Noguchi Pioneers Use of DNA Barcodes .pdf 5/11/2009
   
   BBC Online - 'Barcode' shows mosquito threats .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   Red Orbit, USA - DNA 'Barcodes' May Prevent Spread Of Elephantiasis .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   Reuters UK - New DNA coding to track mosquitoes, fight disease .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   Sci-Dev.net - DNA 'barcoding' raises hopes for elephantiasis .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   The Canadian Press - Elephantiasis | Scientists will be able to pinpoint species carrying disease .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   GuelphMercury.Com - U of G prof's technology fights disease .pdf 5/8/2009
   
   Ghanaian Journal - River Blindness Fly .pdf 5/14/2009
   
   IRIN - 'Barcoding' DNA to identify menacing mosquitoes .pdf 5/8/2009
   
 
     
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