>> The Iranian government has banned the website www. baztab.com. The site linked to former Revolutionary Guards commander Mohsen Rezai, has recently published articles criticising the economic policies of president M Ahmadinejad's government and its decision to hold a conference questioning the veracity of the Holocaust. But it also has a record of being equally critical of Iran's reformists.

>> A network of groups, with the World Conservation Union-South America (IUCN-Sur), is convening an Internet debate in the region to set up actions aimed at preserving biodiversity. Look up www.countdown2010.net [2]. "We want to raise awareness in South America about the Convention on Biological Diversity, whose mission is a significant reduction of biodiversity loss by 2010,' said Mar