From: Ken Mwathe <ken.mwathe@birdlife.or.ke>
To: AfricanBirding@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, April 14, 2010 12:07:16 PM
Subject: [AfricanBirding] BirdLIfe Announces the Africa Climate Exchange - Find out how your favourite birds wil be affected
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Dear Colleagues
BirdLife International is pleased to announce the launch of the website on climate change issues for Africa www.africa-climate- exchange. org/
The Africa Climate Exchange (ACE) is relevant for African policy makers, local communities, scientists and resource managers.
ACE includes a rapidly growing library, currently containing over 400 downloadable documents on a wide range of climate change topics.
Up to date news on climate change from across Africa are available.
For Birders!!
The ACE contains over 1600 species maps showing how individual species they will be affected by climate change starting from Present, 2025, 2055 up to 2085.
Just type the common, scientific or family name and there you have the maps! How exciting?
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More on the site on our news release
www.birdlife. org/news/ news/2010/ 02/africa_ climate_exchange .html
Kindly let others know about this resource.
Very Best.
Ken
Ken Mwathe
BirdLife International | Africa Partnership Secretariat| ICIPE Campus, Kasarani|
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