Funding for biodiversity is getting some attention at last. In September, nine philanthropic organizations...pledged a total of US$5 billion over a decade towards projects that will help to preserve the richness of Earth’s species.
Canberra’s new ecological forum held its first meeting in the Kama Nature Reserve yesterday.
Sticking points on financing, implementation and benefit sharing will need to be resolved in the second session if negotiations in the spring are to succeed...The negotiators have only seven months left until the second and final part of the meeting, and no shortage of disagreements to resolve, p
After a year’s delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Biodiversity Conference will convene virtually to build political momentum for the adoption of a new global biodiversity framework in 2022. The UN Biodiversity Conference will convene...
A growing global push to safeguard nature by pledging to protect about a third of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030 will fall short unless biodiversity-rich Southeast Asian nations get behind the ambitious proposal, environmentalists have warned...Cambodia is the only Southeast Asian nation to
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect societies across the world, the ongoing economic and social disruptions are likely to present fundamental challenges for current and future biodiversity conservation. We review the literature for outcomes of past major societal, political, economic and zoonotic perturbations on biodiversity conservation, and demonstrate the complex implications of perturbation events upon conservation efforts.
A pledge by nine grantmakers to give $5 billion to conservation efforts that address threats to biodiversity and to help curb climate change is taking a different approach than philanthropy has embraced in the past — one that may require those organizations to do things differently. Jeff Bezos an
The government last week called for nominations for Areas of Outstanding Biodiversity Value (AOBVs), which qualify for conservation work funding from the Biodiversity Conservation Trust.
Papua New Guinea's prime minister James Marape is to raise climate change and the threat to his country's biodiversity at the UN...Marape said he hoped industrialised countries will help PNG to conserve its great biodiversity by mitigating the threat climate change poses.
Although the biodiversity crisis is intimately linked to the climate one, the financing to address it is woefully inadequate.