Home

A decade ago, the international community pledged to protect 10% of the ocean by the end of 2020, under the auspices of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity.

Last week, a progress report from the New York Declaration on Forests announced that the world is not on track to meet the declaration's goals to reduce forest loss and promote sustainable and equitable development.

The Campaign for Nature’s goal of protecting at least 30% of our land and oceans by 2030 can only be achieved with full respect of Indigenous Peoples’ rights and with the leadership of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities around the world.

A recently published study in the journal Science gives recommendations for decision-makers preparing to set new biodiversity goals at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 2021.

A 2017 assessment found management effectiveness of Papua New Guinea’s protected areas to be “very low,” with no systemic improvement of on-the-ground delivery since 2006 when a similar study was conducted...

The fifth edition of the UN’s Global Biodiversity Outlook report...provides an overview of the state of nature worldwide. Factors like man’s current relationship with nature, continued biodiversity loss and the ongoing degradation of ecosystems are having profound consequences for human well

The UN report card states that, as of August 2020, 7.5% of the world’s marine area was in MPAs — including 17.2% of marine areas within national jurisdiction, and 1.2% of marine areas beyond national jurisdiction.

An international report says the world has failed to meet any of its 2020 biodiversity targets for birds. The Aichi targets were set in 2010 at a meeting of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Japan.

We believe that countries must take into account lessons from the failure to meet the Aichi targets; the greatest being failure to allocate resources to stop degradation of ecosystems and fight climate change.

A major UN report says decade-long targets to improve global diversity are being missed. While investment in conservation has doubled since 2010, more funding is needed. Schemes like protecting marine areas are praised, but programmes need to demonstrate wider benefits.