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Does going green pay off? Credit: CC0 Public Domain

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

Does going green pay off? Research published in the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development hopes to answer that question from a sustainability performance perspective.

Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

Life on Earth has a long, but also an extremely turbulent history. On more than one occasion, the majority of all species became extinct and an already highly developed biodiversity shrank to a minimum again, changing the course of evolution each time.

It's time environmentalists talked about the population problem

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

In all the talk of tackling environmental problems such as climate change, the problem of population growth often escapes attention. Politicians don't like talking about it. By and large, neither do environmentalists—but former Greens leader Bob Brown has bucked that trend.

The wetland area where the first restoration planting was carried out. Credit - Mark and Felicity Brough/Stuff

Farm biodiversity map highlights falcons, kākahi and glowworms

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

Two North Island farmers are hoping their unique methods of boosting biodiversity and controlling predators on their farm will inspire others. Mark and Felicity Brough created a biodiversity map of their sheep and beef farm at Paerua, near Waitomo, in the central King Country.

Rare fishes at Kure. Credit: NOAA/Richard Pyle-Bishop Museum

NOAA report reveals condition of natural and cultural resources of Papahānaumokuākea

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

NOAA has published a peer-reviewed State of the Monument report that was jointly produced by the co-trustees of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

Underwriting Ecosystems: Using Insurance Policies to Conserve Nature

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

The coronavirus pandemic has shown just how easily and unexpectedly zoonotic diseases can spread—and ecosystem degradation may be a driving force. To save disappearing habitats, RFF University Fellow Carolyn Kousky offers a novel solution: create insurance policies for nature itself.

Reef credits scheme. Source - https://reneweconomy.com.au/

Queensland farmers to be paid “reef credits” to reduce coral-killing pollutants

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

A new market mechanism designed to reduce the impacts of pollution on the Great Barrier Reef has been kick-started with banking giant HSBC and the Queensland government announced as the first buyers of so-called “‘reef credits”.

Yellowfin Tuna. Credit - Guido Montaldo, Shutterstock

FFA Fisheries Ministers progress observer and crew safety and longline fisheries development

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

The seventeenth annual Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee Ministers Meeting (FFC Min17) was held on 6-7 August 2020.

Red List of Ecosystems Online training session October -November 2020

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

IUCN is pleased to invite you to an online training course on the Red List of Ecosystems methodology and its possible applications.

Group photo of EU delegation, IUCN and NTF. Credit - Epeli Nakautoga, IUCN Oceania

BIOPAMA awards National Trust of Fiji 68K Euro grant for the conservation of Fiji’s protected areas

October 23, 2020 by [email protected]

IUCN Oceania, through the Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) programme has awarded the National Trust of Fiji (NTF) a grant worth sixty-eight thousand euros or FJD 171,000 to support on ground action in Fiji’s protected areas...The sites that will benefit from this work are Wai

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