{"id":6562,"date":"2016-01-14T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T08:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2016-01-26T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T14:03:55","slug":"what-has-biodiversity-ever-done-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/01\/14\/what-has-biodiversity-ever-done-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What has biodiversity ever done for us?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a message on the EE Maillist the other day, ostensibly from\u00a0Brian Waswala at UNEP's\u00a0Environmental Education and Training <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unep.org\/training\/programmes\/gupes.asp\">Unit<\/a> in\u00a0Nairobi. \u00a0It said \"<em>the Biodiversity Guide, supported by UNEP and GUPES, are asking for case studies from institutions<\/em>\" in\u00a0the following areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benefiting from Biodiversity - for example volunteering, health, environment and cost savings<\/li>\n<li>Making Biodiversity Happen - for example campus planning, surveys and approaches<\/li>\n<li>Communicating Biodiversity - for example campaigns and working groups<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife Gardening on Campus<\/li>\n<li>Buildings and Structures - for example nest boxes and green roofs<\/li>\n<li>Wildflower Meadows<\/li>\n<li>Ponds and Other Wetlands<\/li>\n<li>Hedges<\/li>\n<li>Woodland and Trees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were all asked to\u00a0complete an attached\u00a0template to highlight current activities within our\u00a0institutions. \u00a0Clicking on the provided link took\u00a0you, not to a UNEP \/ GUPES site, but to a website\u00a0in the UK:\u00a0<em>Biodiversity on Campus: an EAUC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk\/eauc_biodiversity_guide\/p\/1\">Practical Guide<\/a> <\/em>which has a very small number of UK examples (from only 8 universities).<\/p>\n<p>I was puzzled as to whether this is\u00a0a UK or a UNEP initiative. \u00a0Either way, as there were no instructions as to where to send your completed template, perhaps it doesn't matter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a message on the EE Maillist the other day, ostensibly from\u00a0Brian Waswala at UNEP's\u00a0Environmental Education and Training Unit in\u00a0Nairobi. \u00a0It said \"the Biodiversity Guide, supported by UNEP and GUPES, are asking for case studies from institutions\" in\u00a0the following...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}