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Bienvenidos a AvesPR.org Esperamos que este web sea una comunidad de ornitólogos, observadores de aves, manejadores, eco-turistas y otras personas interesadas en las aves de Puerto Rico. Nuestra misión es construir una comunidad interorganizacional con información de las aves de Puerto Rico para promover las actividades de investigación científica y observación de aves en la isla. Esperamos que esta comunidad y sus actividades puedan ser usadas efectivamente para ayudar en la conservación de estas especies.

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Corals are being covered and smothered to death by a bushy seaweed that is so tough even algae-grazing fish avoid it. It settles in the reef’s crevices that fish once called home, driving them away. Dead coral stops supporting the ecosystem and, within a couple of decades, it will crumble into rubble, allowing big ocean waves to reach the beach during storms and destroy the flimsy thatched huts of the Micronesians. “We are catching less and less fish, and the seaweeds are fouling our nets,” says Henry Totie, a fisherman and Butaritari’s traditional chief, in an interview in his traditionally built house in the village near the blue-green lagoon.

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America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil. On January 20, 2009, a new President gets sworn in. If we're organized, we can convince Congress to make major changes towards cleaner, cheaper and domestic energy resources.

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Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859-1934), the first Director of the New York Botanical Garden, was born on 15 January 1859 at New Dorp, Staten Island, New York, son of Jasper Alexander Hamilton Britton and Harriet Lord Turner. His parents envisioned a religious career for their son; instead, John J. Crooke and John Strong Newberry, two "all-around naturalists" of Staten Island, nurtured his native curiosity about the natural world and guided him easily into a botanical career. From the beginning Britton created a sizeable botanical collection, and his father reinforced his interest with visits to the Columbia College herbarium. As the young Britton's education progressed at the Staten Island Academy, Crooke, a neighbor of the Brittons, convinced his parents to allow him to attend the Columbia College School of Mines.

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El Yunque, the El Yunque National Forest welcomes you, our many visitors from all over the world! As Forest Supervisor and as a native of Puerto Rico, I cordially invite you to visit our exciting tropical rain forest and to experience the wonders of this eco-tourism paradise. You can find us on the island of Puerto Rico in the warm and friendly Caribbean. We are one of the most accessible tropical rain forests in the world! When you visit us you will discover that our professional staff is dedicated to the U.S. Forest Service mission of "Caring for the Land and Serving People".

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Reconociendo las continuas amenazas a que está expuesto el sistema estuarino, el 16 de abril de 1992, el Gobernador de Puerto Rico nominó el sistema del Estuario de la Bahía de San Juan (EBSJ) ante el Programa Nacional de Estuarios (NEP, por sus siglas en inglés) de la Agencia Federal de Protección Ambiental (USEPA).

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Tomdispatch.com is for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of our post-9/11 world and a clear sense of how our imperial globe actually works. Read more about the site's founder and editor Tom Engelhardt and his guest authors. Click here to e-mail Tom.

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A fascinating 52 minute documentary on the rise and fall of suburbia. In order to successfully transition through the global food crisis, climate change and peak oil, the new suburbia must reinvent a sustainable "mom and pop" localized economy.

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To provide for the conservation and management of the fisheries, and for other purposes.

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Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental de 2004 Ley Núm. 416 de 22 de septiembre de 2004 Para derogar y sustituir la Ley Núm. 9 de 18 de junio de 1970, según enmendada, conocida como "Ley sobre Política Pública Ambiental" Ley Núm. 13 de 7 de julio de 1973, cuyas disposiciones fueron incluidas en el Título IV de la nueva ley conocida como "Ley para el Manejo de Sustancias Nocivas"; Ley Núm. 81 de 2 de julio de 1987, según enmendada, conocida como "Ley del Fondo de Emergencias Ambiental de Puerto Rico", Ley Núm. 297 de 21 de agosto de 1999, conocida como "Laboratorio de Investigaciones Ambientales de Puerto Rico"; Ley Núm. 257 de 31 de agosto de 2000,conocida como "Ley del Fondo para el Fideicomiso Ambiental de Puerto Rico y el Caribe"; Ley Núm. 310 de 2 de septiembre de 2000, conocida como "Ley para la Prevención de Contaminación", Ley Núm. 25 de 24 de abril de 2001, conocida como "Ley de Prohibición de Ruidos"; Ley Núm. 234 de 27 de septiembre de 2002, conocida como "Día Nacional de la Conciencia y Reflexión Ambiental en Puerto Rico"; y Ley Núm. 160 de 3 de julio de 2003,conocida como Día para la Concienciación sobre el Ruido en el Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico".

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Welcome to the Lenfest Ocean Program Web site. We support scientific research on living marine resources that will help decision makers both understand the causes and consequences affecting the global marine environment, and design and implement policies that will sustainably manage ocean ecosystems.

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Some shark populations in the Mediterranean Sea have completely collapsed, according to a new study, with numbers of five species declining by more than 96 percent over the past two centuries.

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Ecology and Society is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Manuscript submission, peer review, and publication are all handled on the Internet. Software developed for the journal automates all clerical steps during peer review, facilitates a double-blind peer review process, and allows authors and editors to follow the progress of peer review on the Internet. As articles are accepted, they are published in an "Issue in Progress." At six month intervals the Issue-in-Progress is declared a New Issue, and subscribers receive the Table of Contents of the issue via email. Our turn-around time (submission to publication) averages around 250 days. We encourage publication of special features. Special features are comprised of a set of manuscripts that address a single theme, and include an introductory and summary manuscript. The individual contributions are published in regular issues, and the special feature manuscripts are linked through a table of contents and announced on the journal's main page. The journal seeks papers that are novel, integrative and written in a way that is accessible to a wide audience that includes an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystems on which human wellbeing ultimately depends. Content of the journal ranges from the applied to the theoretical. In general, papers should cover topics relating to the ecological, political, and social foundations for sustainable social-ecological systems. Specifically, the journal publishes articles that present research findings on the following issues: (a) the management, stewardship and sustainable use of ecological systems, resources and biological diversity at all levels, (b) the role natural systems play in social and political systems and conversely, the effect of social, economic and political institutions on ecological systems and services, and (c) the means by which we can develop and sustain desired ecological, social and political states. In a recent editorial, Editors-in-Chief Carl Folke and Lance Gunderson summarize their vision for Ecology and Society: We view humanity and nature as co-evolving systems that interact within the bounds of the biosphere at various temporal and spatial scales and across scales. We hope to create a rigorous scientific forum where we can discuss issues related to the linked and dynamic systems of humans and nature and generate an improved understanding of essential interactions that will enhance our capacity to actively adapt to change without eroding resilience or creating vulnerability. (Conservation Ecology Volume 6, issue 1, article 19) We also encourage papers that make use of the unique opportunities of an e-journal: color illustrations, animated model output, down-loadable models and data sets, use of the "Response" option for interactive discussion, and other novel inventions to encourage reader interaction.

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The Resilience Science weblog is operated by Garry Peterson, a professor in Geography and the School of the Environment at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It was started in early 2005 by Garry Peterson and Marco Janssen as an experiment to communicate recent work by and of interest to those interested in resilience in social ecological systems. Currently its contributors are members of Resilience Alliance (RA), a research network of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. Key RA concepts include resilience, the adaptive cycle, and panarchy. The RA works to develop a practical theoretical foundation for a sustainable civilization. The RA develops sustainability science along three paths: * Contributing toward theoretical advances in the dynamics of complex adaptive systems * Supporting rigorous testing of theory via: participatory regional case-studies, adaptive management, minimal-modelling, and the use of scenarios and other qualitative modelling tools. * Developing guidelines and principles that will enable others to assess the resilience of coupled human-natural systems and develop policy and management tools that support sustainable development In August 2007 it contained over 280 posts on topics that include: adaptive management, urban ecology, responses to crisis, ecological functioning, serious games, visualization, and green design. Members of the RA who are interested in contributing to the Resilience Science weblog should contact Garry Peterson.

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How much is the Earth worth to us? At a global conference in Bonn, Germany, representatives of 191 nations are discussing a revolution in conservation. By making a highly profitable business out of saving forests, whales and coral reefs, environmentalists hope to put a stop to a dramatic wave of extinctions.

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Un espacio para la discusión y análisis de eventos relacionados al poder, la democracia y el ambiente en Puerto Rico

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Marine Sciences Collection’s Blog To keep our marine sciences patrons informed about new bibliographic adquisitions in our Collection, services and links of interest

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El Programa de Manejo de la Zona Costanera (PMZC) fue adoptado el 12 de julio de 1978 como el elemento costero del Plan de Uso de Terrenos de Puerto Rico. La agencia líder su implantación es el Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA), cuya responsabilidad fundamental es la protección de los recursos naturales de Puerto Rico. La Junta de Planificación, por su parte, es el ente gubernamental responsable de administrar el Proceso de Certificación de Compatibilidad Federal con el Programa. Otras agencias locales y federales, como la Junta de Calidad Ambiental, el Departamento de Recreación y Deportes, la Compañía de Parques Nacionales, el Departamento de Agricultura, el Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental y el Cuerpo de Ingenieros de los Estados Unidos, así como los municipios costeros, poseen responsabilidades de manejo en la costa. En síntesis, la complejidad de las relaciones funcionales de los procesos costeros, tanto desde el punto de vista ecológico como socioeconómico, exigen la coordinación efectiva entre las agencias gubernamentales, así como la participación de las organizaciones no gubernamentales y de la cuidadanía en general.

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