biodiversity Archives

Global Bioeconomy Summit 2018 – Opportunities and challenges in Africa

Perspective / How can we integrate regional African bioeconomies into a global bioeconomy while aligning with the SDGs? Find out what 70 experts discussed at this summit.

14 June 2018 / About Bioeconomy, Food and agriculture and Renewables

Photo of Usambara Mountains in Tanzania - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Usambara.jpg By Deogratiusf2 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Local costs of conservation exceed those borne by the global majority

Journal article / Conservation planning tools and processes need to consider local costs as well as broader benefits.

18 April 2018 / About Ecosystems and Forests

Land degradation worsening climate change and undermining well-being of billions

Feature / The first comprehensive assessment of land degradation and restoration has now been launched.

26 March 2018 / About Adaptation, Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests, Land use, Mitigation, Supply chains, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Moving ahead on gender-responsive planning and implementation of national biodiversity in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

Perspective / Gender-responsive planning can improve biodiversity outcomes in Southeast Asia and the Pacific

19 December 2017 / About Ecosystems and Participation

Resilience and management of Arctic wetlands

Project / Strengthening engagement on the roles and functions of wetlands to support sustainable development and resilience in the Arctic.

2017 - 2019 / About Ecosystems, Land use, Mitigation, Public policy and Water resources

Is environmental legislation conserving tropical stream faunas? A large-scale assessment of local, riparian and catchment-scale influences on Amazonian fish

Journal article / This article presents evidence that current environmental legislation designed to protect streams and their biota in the Amazon is not fit for purpose

12 November 2017 / About Forests, Land use and Water resources

Landscape correlates of bushmeat consumption and hunting in a post-frontier Amazonian region

Journal article / Field evidence that overturns the assumption that rural–urban migration in the tropics will reduce hunting of bushmeat and endangered forest species

10 November 2017 / About Forests and Sustainable lifestyles

Second conference of the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence – calls for submissions now open

Feature / The conference will take place in Paris, from 16 to 20 April 2018. Calls are now open for submissions for sessions, training events, talks and posters.

10 October 2017 / About Ecosystems, Food and agriculture, Forests, Sustainable Development Goals and Wellbeing

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) and biodiversity

Other publication / This book chapter outlines how reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) may positively and negatively impact on biodiversity

3 April 2017 / About Ecosystems, Forests and Mitigation