biodiversity Archives

Close up of a thin, dark green, metallic beetle on a leaf. The leaf has extensive damage from the beetle feeding on it.

Early detection strategies for invading tree pests: targeted surveillance and stakeholder perspectives

Journal article / Researchers have developed a surveillance map for emerald ash borer beetles in Great Britain, with potential applications for both governments and stakeholders.

24 March 2025 / About Forests

First UNCCRD Delta Summit 2025

Past event / The summit on 17-20 March aims to deliver a White Paper to the United Nations to make operational the UN Convention for Conserving Deltas (UNCCRD).

17 March 2025 / About Water resources

Forest-Web-3.0

Project / Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology.

2025 - 2026 / About Adaptation, Finance and Forests

A sea otter floats on their back in the sea, sideways to the camera, looking at something out of shot to the left.

Time to fix the biodiversity leak

Journal article / Biodiversity leakage - displacing nature-damaging human activities by protecting or restoring areas of land - undermines global conservation efforts.

14 February 2025 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture and Land use

A snow leopard bounding along a snowy cliff-edge, in front of a wide valley; snow-capped mountains in the distance.

LIFE at the edges of extinction

Feature / A new metric uses data on 30 000 vertebrate species to map global extinction risks, potentially reshaping land-use decisions on local and regional scales.

6 February 2025 / About Ecosystems, Forests and Land use

Grounds for change

SEI podcast / Explore transformative land use solutions in this "Currents in sustainability" podcast featuring Irene Suárez Pérez and SEI experts.

21 January 2025 / Currents in sustainability / Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

Grounds for change

Perspective / This piece, one of three SEI Currents for 2025, examines the growing role of land in addressing climate, environment and sustainable development issues.

21 January 2025 / About Bioeconomy, Cities, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests and Land use

How is the concept of charisma used in the academic literature about biodiversity conservation? A systematic map protocol

Journal article / The authors present a protocol to systematically map the application of "charisma" in biodiversity conservation within peer-reviewed academic literature.

17 January 2025

A leopard looks directly at the camera. The leopard sits high up in a tree, surrounded by greenery.

LIFE: a metric for mapping the impact of land-cover change on global extinctions

Journal article / LIFE quantifies and maps the extinction risk impacts of land-cover changes, using data on over 30 000 vertebrate species.

9 January 2025 / About Forests and Land use