There’s a big caveat to go along with this news, though. These protected spaces are not distributed evenly across the globe, still falling well below 17 percent in over half of the world's countries, a study from the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) says.
In a recent opinion piece published in the journal Nature, several ecologists question recent efforts to delineate areas of wilderness and intactness around the world to define conservation targets. Click on the link below to read the full article.
The 2018 UN Biodiversity Conference in Egypt concluded with a broad international agreement on reversing the global destruction of nature and biodiversity loss threatening all forms of life on Earth.
The UN Biodiversity Conference was held from 13-29 November 2018 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, under the theme ‘Investing in Biodiversity for People and Planet’...Emerging technologies and the process for developing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework received the lion’s share of attention.
A new report demonstrates that, while we still need to be concerned about biodiversity, we have managed to create more protected areas for our wildlife than ever before and are on track to meet some important goals. Click on the link below to read the full article.
As the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting takes stock of Aichi Targets, the suggestion of bringing indigenous communities’ areas under formal protection is highly contested. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Australia is failing to meet international targets to protect nature in parts of the country where land clearing and habitat destruction are widespread, according to data in a major new United Nations report. Click on the link below to read the full article.
Australia is failing to meet international targets to protect nature in parts of the country where land clearing and habitat destruction are widespread, according to data in a major new United Nations report. Click on the link below to read the full article.
“Investing in biodiversity for people and planet” is the theme of the world’s largest biodiversity conference in 2018 hosted in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Click on the link below to read the full article.
“We all seem to agree that biodiversity is the foundation for human health and wellness but ironically as human beings we are primarily responsible for destroying biodiversity - the very thing that we rely on for our survival and livelihoods,” said Mr Kosi Latu, Director General of the Secretaria