“Handbok of the Birds of the World Alive [HBW Alive] has been created by Lynx Edicions, a publishing house founded in Barcelona, Spain, in 1989, and committed to providing high quality ornithology and natural history books. Foremost among these is the Handbook of the Birds of the World, a 17-volume encyclopaedia that describes and illustrates for the first time every species of bird in the world, and serves as the foundation for HBW Alive. All volumes of the Handbook of the Birds of the World are available in print. Much of Lynx Edicions’ work is carried out in conjunction with some of the most prestigious international scientific organizations dedicated to zoological investigation. Such alliances have resulted in titles co-edited with BirdLife International, the American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, Conservation International, IUCN, and others. HBW Alive also incorporates the contents of the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World, including important taxonomic changes and global innovations. Volume 1: Non-passerines was published in August 2014 and incorporated into HBW Alive and Volume 2: Passerines is due in 2016 and will be incorporated thereafter. Another project that Lynx Edicions currently has in hand is the Handbook of the Mammals of the World, which complements the Handbook of the Birds of the World by offering, again for the first time, detailed, illustrated descriptions of every extant mammalian species on Earth. Last but not least, since 2002 Lynx Edicions has administered the Internet Bird Collection (IBC), an ambitious digital resource which consists of a vast, free-access online library of videos, photographs and sound recordings which will eventually include material for all the bird species in the world. With more new material added every day, the IBC has become one of the most visited sites of its kind on the internet. The relevant content of HBW Alive is linked to the material posted on the IBC.For more information, please visit www.lynxeds.com.”
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Daily Archives: April 16, 2016
2016 edition of World Development Indicators is available
Via World Bank Data Blog – “The 2016 edition of World Development Indicators is out: three features you won’t want to miss. We’re excited to announce the release of the 2016 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI). With over 1 million downloads last year, WDI is the most widely used dataset in our Open Data… Continue Reading
U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking – 2015 Annual Progress Assessment
Via DOJ: “The escalation of wildlife trafficking in recent years poses an urgent threat to conservation and global security. African elephant populations have declined by about 20 percent in the last decade to just over 400,000, and one out of every twenty wild rhinos was killed by a poacher in the last year alone. Well-armed… Continue Reading
Saving Government Email an Open Question with December 2016 Deadline Looming
Via National Security Archive: “The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Department of the Treasury’s Comptroller, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) are among a handful of agencies that have already admitted they will not meet the December 31, 2016, deadline for electronic management of official government email – like Hillary Clinton’s – in their mandatory,… Continue Reading
9/11 Families, the 28 Pages, and economic threats if Congress passes bill on monetary damages
When I returned home the evening of the 9/11 attack from my office in Washington, DC I joined colleagues throughout the legal community who stayed up for days sharing every bit of information we could obtain about the status of those who worked in the Twin Towers, Pentagon and in the plane that crashed in… Continue Reading
