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Posted on behalf of Savita Custead, Bristol Natural History Consortium. ________________________________ Hi all, It is indeed International Year of Biodiversity in 2010 - and there are plans in the work for some very exciting and innovative projects here in the UK. Last week the Bristol Natural History Consortium hosted the annual Communicate conference for environmental communicators here in Bristol. We were really pleased to have an address from David Ainsworth, from the United Nations Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. He described international plans for IYB, and we followed this with a discussion on UK based plans facilitated by Helen Featherstone from UWE. There are a number of national projects in the works (the Bristol Natural History Consortium will be running a pilot in 2009 that will be scaled nationally in 2010) and it is a good time to start building links. Bob Bloomfield from the Natural History Museum preceded David Ainsworth's talk and discussed how Darwin 200 projects would flow into 2010 - I know a number of other organisations are also looking at this. If anyone else is planning events or projects, and was unable to attend Communicate, please do get in touch off-list, and please do join in the discussions and plans as we aim to work in a coordinated way. I think it would be fantastic if the UK were to make a big splash in this international celebration - we also have a real opportunity to lead this into the 2012 games - the first sustainable games, and the number of related projects swelling around this. Joanna, thanks for bringing this up!! Savita ______________________________ Savita Custead Director Bristol Natural History Consortium c/o Bristol Zoo Gardens Clifton, Bristol BS8 3HA T: +44 (0)117 370 0973 M: +44 (0)777 336 1042 E: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> W: www.bnhc.org.uk <http://www.bnhc.org.uk/> Bristol Natural History Consortium is a collaboration between Avon Wildlife Trust, BBC, Bristol City Council, Bristol Zoo Gardens, Environment Agency, Defra, University of Bristol, The University of the West of England, Wildscreen, and Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust . Registered Charity: 1123432 This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl <http://www.blackspider.com/> ********************************************************************** 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] 4. Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html 5. The psci-com gateway to internet resources on science communication and science and society can be found at http://psci-com.ac.uk 6. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] **********************************************************************