| Jun 1735 |
Publication of Systema Naturae |
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| Jun 1768 |
Rev. Gilbert White observations on nature |
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| Jun 1798 |
Publication of Malthus essay on the Principle of Population |
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| Jun 1845 |
Publication of Kosmos by Fredrich von Humboldt |
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| Jun 1846 |
Henry David Thoreau writes Walden |
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| Nov 1859 |
Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species is published. |
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| Jun 1864 |
George Perkins Marsh writes Man and Nature |
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| Jun 1867 |
Britain sends students from India to learn to manage their forests |
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| Mar 1872 |
Yellowstone is established as the first U.S. National Park |
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| Mar 1875 |
HMS Challenger expedition makes sounding of the depth of the ocean |
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| Jun 1892 |
John Muir forms the Sierra Club. |
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| Sep 1901 |
Yale School of Forestry created |
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| Jan 1907 |
Congress passess bill to limit establishment of national parks |
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| Sep 1914 |
World's last passenger pigeon dies |
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| Jun 1924 |
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane debates theologians |
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| Jun 1926 |
Vladimir Vernadsky publishes The Biosphere. |
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| Sep 1933 |
Aldo Leopold forms the first US wildlife program |
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| Feb 1943 |
Last sighting of the Toolache Wallaby |
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| Jan 1945 |
Green Revolution begins in Mexico |
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| Oct 1948 |
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is founded |
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| Jan 1950 |
Kinji Imanishi helps found the Primate Research Group |
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| Jun 1951 |
Challenger II uses sound waves to discover the deepest point on earth |
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| Jun 1957 |
Andrewartha and Nicholson dispute the theories of species growth |
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| Jun 1958 |
Charles Elton published The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants |
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| Jun 1962 |
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is published. |
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| Jun 1963 |
Human population growth rate peaks at 2.2% |
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| Sep 1964 |
Burton Weisbrod enlarged the theory of economic value |
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| Sep 1967 |
John V. Krutilla introduces concept of existence value to economics |
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| Feb 1968 |
Raymond F. Dasmann publishes A Different Kind of Country |
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| Jun 1968 |
The Population Bomb was written by Paul and Anne Ehrlich |
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| Jun 1969 |
Robert T. Paine introduces the concept of 'keystone species' |
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| Nov 1972 |
The UNESCO World Heritage convention |
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| Jun 1973 |
Publication of "Resilience and stability of ecological systems." |
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| Dec 1973 |
U.S. President Nixon signs the Endangered Species Act |
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| Feb 1975 |
Uluru, Kakadu, and the Franklin River are protected |
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| Mar 1975 |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act enacted |
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| Jun 1975 |
Dr. Peter Singer publishes Animal Liberation |
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| Jun 1976 |
The Wilderness Society is formed |
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| Feb 1979 |
The EU approves the Birds Directive |
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| Mar 1979 |
founding of Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, (AERE) |
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| Jun 1979 |
James Lovelock publishes Gaia: A new look at life on Earth |
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| Jun 1980 |
Thomas Lovejoy introduces the concept of biological diversity |
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| Mar 1982 |
Terry Erwin publishes a provocative report on species numbers |
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| Apr 1982 |
Greening Australia founded |
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| Jun 1982 |
Whaling moratorium adopted by the International Whaling Commission |
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| Jun 1982 |
Bruce Wilcox defines biological diversity |
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| Jan 1983 |
Bradshaw published paper on reconstructing ecosystems |
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| Jun 1985 |
Alec Jeffrey develops DNA profiling system |
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| Jan 1986 |
The Australian Landcare movement is founded by a group of farmers near St Arnaud in central Victoria |
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| Jan 1987 |
The Brundtland Commission produces "Our Common Future" and defines sustainable development as "devel |
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| Feb 1987 |
Conservation International is established and soon becomes a major force promoting biodiversity cons |
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| Mar 1987 |
Rainforest Action Network wins its first grassroots market campaign when fast-food chain Burger King |
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| Feb 1988 |
David Ehrenfeld publishes Counter-argument to valuing or pricing biodiversity |
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| Mar 1988 |
Murray-Darling Basin Agreement signed |
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| Mar 1988 |
E.O Wilson titles the proceedings of the The National Forum on Biodiveristy as "biodiversity" making |
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| Jan 1989 |
CAMPFIRE (Communal Areas Management Program for Indigenous Resources) was established in Zimbabwe as |
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| Jan 1990 |
Bob Hawke's Labor government is re-elected on environmental/green movement preferences. |
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| Feb 1990 |
Norman Myers publishes his second paper on biodiversity hotspots identifying the proximity of human |
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| Mar 1990 |
The Nature Conservancy launches its Last Great Places: An Alliance for People and the Environment in |
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| Jan 1991 |
Georgina Mace and Russell Lande codified categories for classifying the extinction risks for differe |
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| Feb 1991 |
Diversitas, a UNESCO sponsored international program on biodiversity science is established to promo |
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| May 1992 |
EU approves the Habitats Directive in response to the Berne Convention on European flora and fauna. |
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| Jun 1992 |
Brian Walker publishes "Biodiversity and ecological redundancy" in the journal Conservation Biology |
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| Jul 1992 |
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is adopted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the UN Earth S |
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| Aug 1992 |
E.O. Wilson publishes Pullitzer Prize-winning book The Diversity of Life. |
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| Jan 1993 |
The concept of connectivity between habitats is introduced as an element of landscape structure that |
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| Jan 1994 |
The International Whaling Commission approves the Antarctic whale sanctuary proposed by France and s |
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| Mar 1994 |
Mark Lonsdale published a paper demonstrating Australia's efforts over the previous 40 years to tran |
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| Jul 1994 |
Intenational Institute of Environment and Development publishes, "Who's Eden? An Overview of Approac |
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| May 1997 |
Robert Costanza and a multi-disciplinary team of researchers published "The value of the world's eco |
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| Jun 1997 |
Natural Heritage Trust is started in Australia with the aim of funding on-ground conservation action |
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| Jul 1997 |
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature written by Janine Benyus is published. |
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| Jan 1998 |
El Niño-Southern Oscillation causes intensive global coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef and o |
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| Apr 1998 |
The American Museum of Natural History report Biodiversity in the Next Millennium shows academic sup |
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| Jan 1999 |
Australia established the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC). |
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| Mar 1999 |
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution is co-authored by Paul Hawken, Amory Lov |
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| Oct 1999 |
A new-born Sarajevo boy is considered by the UN as the symbolic six billionth person in the world. |
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| Nov 1999 |
The Resilience Alliance, a multidisciplinary research group that explores the dynamics of complex so |
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| Sep 2000 |
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are established at the Millenium Summit with a commitment to |
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| Nov 2000 |
Biograze, an initiative concerned with managing the interactions between grazing and biodiversity, p |
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| Nov 2000 |
Anthropocene is coined by Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Crutzen to describe the most recent per |
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| Jan 2001 |
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is formed. |
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| Jan 2002 |
Bushbroker program is established as part of Victoria’s Native Vegetation Framework. |
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| Jan 2003 |
Dr. Paul D.N. Hebert from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, proposed the compilation of a p |
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| Jan 2003 |
A group of taxonomists and DNA specialists commit to DNA Barcode 10 million species in 10 years. |
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| Jan 2003 |
A multi-discplinary team at the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America publish |
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| Jan 2005 |
Jared Diamond's Collapse:How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is published, a popular text which |
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| Mar 2005 |
The Millenium Ecosystem Assessment releases the results of its first four-year study of the use and |
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| Mar 2006 |
The first Australia State of the Environment Report is published. |
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| Apr 2007 |
The emerging concept of conservation ecology is supported by a publication about assisted migratoin |
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| May 2007 |
BBC's Natural History Unit broadcasts Planet Earth which becomes the most watch cable event on the p |
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| Feb 2008 |
Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is launched, a project to create an online reference source and database |
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| Jan 2009 |
The REDD scheme, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in de |
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| May 2009 |
The Australian Government’s Super Science Initiative increased funding for the Atlas of Living Austr |
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| Oct 2009 |
Dr. Elinor Ostrom and Dr. Oliver Williamson are awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for their work |
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| Jan 2010 |
National Farmers Federation joins the Australian Conservation Foundation in declaring biodiversity c |
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| Jan 2010 |
The start of 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, as declared by the UN. |
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