Archives for: October 2009

Amphibians and Reptiles of Switzerland

October 30th, 2009
A new book has been published on the natural history of amphibians and reptiles in Switzerland. The authors are Andreas Meyer, Silvia Zumbach, Benedikt Schmidt and Jean-Claude Monney and among them there is a member of the S.E.H. C.C. Haupt Verlag publis… more »

29th Standing Committee of the Bern Convention

October 27th, 2009
The 29th Standing Committee of the Bern Convention will take place exceptionnaly in Bern this year, to celebrate the 30th year of the convention. The Committee will be held from November 23 to November 27 2009. The cases concerning herpetofauna in the dr… more »

2010 IENE International Conference on Ecology and Transportation

October 23rd, 2009
First announcement and call for proposals & abstracts2010 IENE International Conference on Ecology and Transportation:  Improving Connections in a Changing EnvironmentThe Infra Eco Network Europe invites you to attend the IENE International Conferenc… more »

RAVON-day 2009

October 23rd, 2009
The annual meeting of the RAVON will be held on November 21th at the University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). The entrance to the meeting is free. The meeting will consist of some lectures (in Dutch) and the program of the day can be find at… more »

Habitat Banking in the EU

October 22nd, 2009
A Workshop regarding Habitat Banking in the EU was held in Brussels (11/9/2009). You can read some notes about this workshop from the SEH CC representative in our News page. more »

SEH Grant in Herpetology for 2010

October 19th, 2009
The “SEH Grant in Herpetology” will again support, in 2010, a project orientated to conservation of the amphibians and reptiles of Europe and the Mediterranean basin, focussed on either a species or habitat, with a grant of up to EUR 2000. The SEH Conser… more »

Marine turtles as whales?

October 17th, 2009
In a recent published article (you can download the pdf directly here and find the abstract of the article below) the authors explored the available literature on the interaction between marine turtles, tourism and conservation. The article offers a good… more »

Congratulations to Dr. Franco Andreone

October 16th, 2009
SAVE THE FROGS! Advisory Committee Member and SEH member Dr. Franco Andreone was recently awarded the Sabin Award for his excellent work on the conservation of the amphibians of Madagascar. The SEH CC would like to congatulate Dr. Andreone for his award… more »

Welcome

October 14th, 2009
Welcome to the blog of the SEH Conservation Committee. This blog will be used to discuss or highlight interesting published articles on conservation or herpetofauna conservation, sharing information (e.g., about Bern Convention meeting and agenda), exc… more »