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The GEF is the only multilateral fund dedicated to biodiversity conservation and is one of the largest and most trusted sources of financing for environmental initiatives in developing countries...To date, the GEF has set up and sustained protected areas on the land larger than the size of Brazil
The European Union’s environment chief says 2022 must be the year for an ambitious agreement on the oceans, for action that protects the world’s biodiversity, and for starting negotiations to tackle the global crisis of plastic pollution especially at sea. Virginijus Sinkevicius, the EU comm
In 2006, Papua New Guinea formally nominated seven identified areas for the World Heritage Tentative Listing. To date, none of these areas has been nominated to the World Heritage List. This desktop review examines the seven sites on the Papua New Guinea World Heritage Tentative list and reports on the current knowledge, condition and threats to each of these sites; as well as recommendations made to address identified issues and provide guidance for advancing the "processes of identification, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of this heritage".
A new action plan to halt biodiversity loss needs scientific specialists to work with those who study how governments function...The GBF is a comprehensive plan. But success will require systemic change across public policy. That is both a strength and a weakness.
A new University of British Columbia study offers new evidence that protected areas are effective at conserving wildlife. Researchers at UBC's faculty of forestry analyzed data from a global data set drawing from 8,671 camera trap stations spanning four continents.
Expanding nature preserves will not be enough to stem a rising tide of extinctions, a panel of experts warned on Wednesday (Jan 19), taking aim at a draft treaty tasked with rescuing Earth's animal and plant life.
Conservation biologist Tom Lovejoy died on Christmas day, 2021 at the age of 80. Through his innovative ideas, leadership, and advocacy, Lovejoy leaves an enduring legacy to the field of conservation, writes Jeremy Hance.
To achieve global goals for biodiversity conservation, national level implementation must be significantly improved. National policy instruments need to precisely define effective actions and the actors responsible for implementation.
We are facing global biodiversity and climate crises. It is estimated that one million species are threatened with extinction, with the drivers of biodiversity loss due to the direct or indirect results of unsustainable human action.
The impacts of invasive alien species, habitat loss and climate change are compounded in small island nations, which are highly dependent on biodiversity for their economic and social wellbeing.