Enabling Pathways for Rights-based Community-led Conservation

The Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) recognizes that durable conservation outcomes cannot be achieved without the rights, leadership, and knowledge of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant Peoples, and local communities. This report assesses the legal frameworks and biodiversity strategies of 30 high-biodiversity countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America to evaluate progress toward rights-based, community-led conservation.

Database of Global Data Sources for Biodiversity Conservation Monitoring

Here you can access a database created by the Group in collaboration with Re:wild as part of an inventory of available data sources.

The database includes 202 global data sources:
57 global biodiversity data sources of potential value in monitoring biodiversity state.
62 global data sources of potential value in monitoring pressures and threats to biodiversity.
39 global data sources of potential value in monitoring conservation responses to biodiversity loss.
44 global data sources with multiple uses for biodiversity monitoring.

Mobilizing Finance for Biodiversity: The Private Finance Sector and the Implementation of National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs)

Nature is the foundation of life on Earth, underpinning the ecosystem services that sustain societies and economies. Yet, its degradation continues at an alarming rate, threatening planetary resilience and human well-being.

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) offers a clear mission and vision: put in place the urgent action to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 and live in harmony with nature by 2050. The challenge now lies in implementation across governments, businesses, and financial institutions alike.

Terrestrial Biodiversity of Manuae Atoll, Cook Islands

The most common and numerous island type across the Pacific basin are atolls. Even though these island systems harbor only a few endemic species, atolls are globally important nesting sites for seabirds and sea turtles, roosting sites for migratory shorebirds, and refugia for Oceania's unique lowland flora and fauna. While atolls were extensively surveyed for their island biodiversity in the second half of the twentieth century, many remain unmapped, leaving important knowledge gaps for Pacific biodiversity, biogeography, and conservation.

Biology and Impacts of Pacific Island Invasive Species. 17. Lissachatina fulica, the Giant African Snail (Mollusca: Achatinidae; Achatininae)

We review the taxonomy, biology, and the ecological, economic, and human health impacts of the giant African snail, Lissachatina fulica, in the Pacific. Invasion of L. fulica in the Pacific has a complex history. Rapid population expansions of L. fulica on Pacific Islands, and elsewhere, in the 1930s and 1940s prompted researchers to explore its biology with a focus on understanding and minimizing its impacts in agricultural systems. Similarly, recent outbreaks of rat lungworm disease have prompted increased research exploring diseases associated with L. fulica and other snail species.

Blue Prosperity Vanuatu 2023 Coral Reef Study Preliminary Science Report

From 1-21 September 2023, the Government of Vanuatu, in partnership with Blue Prosperity Vanuatu, local NGOs, and international collaborators, conducted the largest nationwide coral reef study across all six (6) provinces of Vanuatu. This study gathered information about the status of coral reefs, fish species, invertebrate populations, and water quality across Vanuatu’s waters. 

Standards, methods and guidelines for cross-referencing ecosystem classifications and maps to the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology

This publication establishes a structured, rigorous standard for cross-referencing ecosystem types to the GET. It first reviews the need for reliable interoperability among ecosystem classifications and the role of the GET as a framework for synthesis. Second, it reviews the conceptual foundations of ecosystem classifications and introduces the structure of the GET. Third, the guidelines introduce key principles for cross-referencing the units of other ecosystem classifications to GET Ecosystem Functional Groups.

Wiawi Community Turtle Management Plan

Wiawi is an important turtle-nesting site in Vanuatu known for hawksbill and green turtles. The significance of the area came to light after independence in the 1980s following forest conservation interests by the Forestry Department, which resulted in the setting up of the Wiawi Conservation Area. With the support of the Wan Smolbag (WSB) turtle monitoring programme in the 1990s, the community of Wiawi embarked on interventions towards strengthening sea turtle monitoring and conservation in Wiawi through the request from Chief Timothy and his brother Chief Konel Nihapi.