| | UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | The Strategic Plan lays the foundations for the Centre's operations and growth in the coming years as it seeks to help the international community meet, and better, the target to reduce the rate of loss of the world's biodiversity by 2010 and to reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015. |
 | | UNEP-WCMC and ESRI, based in Redlands, California, the world's leading developer of spatial software for use in the environmental field, signed an agreement to collaborate on the development of a new World Conservation Base Map, based on ESRI's new Arc Explorer, as a contribution to the global Conservation Commons. |
 | | Shell will now join nine other industry majors that have come together to support the redevelopment of the World Database on Protected Areas contributing more than $1 million in cash and kind, allowing this new database to meet the expectations of the international community. |
| www.wcmc.org.uk (202 words) |