THE HEINZ CENTER - PRWeb Press Release Account Feed http://www.rsspad.com/rss2a/68145.xml THE HEINZ CENTER - Press Releases en xml@emediawire.com xml@emediawire.com 30 Heinz Center Elects R. Philip Hanes, Jr. to Board http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/02/prweb105402.htm The Heinz Center announced that R. Philip Hanes, Jr., Owner, River Ridge Land and Cattle Co., LLC, and CEO Emeritus of Hanes Company, has been elected to the Center’s Board of Trustees. (PRWeb Feb 18, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/02/prweb105402.htm Heinz Center Issues First Annual Update to The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/01/prweb98853.htm The first annual update of the landmark 2002 report The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States has been released by The Heinz Center. Update 2003 includes updated data for 25 indicators. This represents a quarter of the indicators presented in the Center’s 2002 report, and more than 40% of those for which data were available in 2002. Update 2003 also includes first-time data for one indicator (Recreation in Forests) for which no data were available in 2002. (PRWeb Jan 16, 2004)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/01/prweb98853.htm HEINZ CENTER ELECTS DAVID J. REFKIN TO BOARD http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/12/prweb93817.htm The Heinz Center announced that David J. Refkin, President of TI Paperco, the paper-purchasing subsidiary of Time Inc., has been elected to the Center’s Board of Trustees. (PRWeb Dec 12, 2003)

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]]> http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/12/prweb93817.htm Heinz Center President Tom Lovejoy on Habitat Fragmentation and Time to Extinction http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/11/prweb87669.htm Continuing development of natural areas around the world means that conservation managers need to know how quickly they must act to counter the effects of habitat fragmentation. Existing knowledge of species–area relations predicts the number of species that a habitat fragment of a certain size can hold, but until now it has not been possible to know how fast a fragment would lose its species. A paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS Online) provides an answer to that question: it reports that the number of captures per species in fragments diminishes over time in a predictable way. From those declining numbers, the authors derive a rule for the time it takes to lose half the species in habitat fragments of different sizes: fragments smaller than one square kilometer lose half their bird species in less than 15 years, too quickly for conservation measures to work. To slow the rate of species loss by 10-fold, fragment area must increase 1000-fold. (PRWeb Nov 5, 2003)

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