   An ambitious two-year study of the Mediterranean biome.
Insight begins with information. The Nature Conservancy has seeded the Global Mediterranean Action Network with the raw data from a hectare-by-hectare survey of the entire Mediterranean Biome. This study reveals critical details about biodiversity and destruction in the biome - and best opportunities for preserving it. |
   Director of Forest Programme at WWF Turkey (World Wide Fund for Nature) Real people are making a real difference - in Australia, California/Baja California, Chile, the Mediterranean Basin, and South Africa. Sedat Kalem has been involved with planning and implementation of ecoregion-based conservation in the Caucasus, participatory forest and protected area planning and management, alternative livelihood development, (eg. eco-tourism), sustainable resource use, wildlife protection, biodiversity...
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   Barely larger than your thumb, yet he holds many world records.
Tens of thousands of amazing plants and animals, like the honey possum, are unique to the Mediterranean biome. The honey possum gives birth to the smallest newborns and has the largest testicles per body mass of all the world’s mammals. Living just one or two years, the honey possum survives entirely on pollen and nectar. Learn more about the spectacular plants and animals of Gondwana Link, a massive project to restore landscape connections along an 850-kilometer arc of south-western Australia. |
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