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The Solomon Islands have worked to ensure communities are on the frontlines of ocean governance by taking great strides toward Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water.

While countries want the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework to be as ambitious as possible, not many are willing to provide funds for conservation, says V.B. Mathur, India’s official delegate to the fourth Nairobi negotiating session of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity

At the closing, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Miguel de Serpa Soares, commended co-hosts — Portugal and Kenya — for the conference’s enormous success.

Finalizing the new Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) is taking longer than expected and yet another round of negotiations – this time in Nairobi, Kenya – ended without much progress, say members of the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB). Indigenous leaders part of the fourth working group meeting are disappointed that the inclusion of language […]

Amid faltering negotiations on protecting biodiversity, a researcher who has studied humans’ impact on nature sees hope in local initiatives.

RINCON VITINA, Colombia — In this small Indigenous reserve, or resguardo, in the Colombian department of Guainía, people tend to their cassava, plantain and pineapple crops, raise ornamental fish, and weave objects from the chiqui chiqui palm. Agriculture makes up the core of their livelihood, and for centuries the Indigenous community here has governed and […]

Last week, representatives of 196 countries met to discuss the protection of Earths biodiversity in the climate crisis era.

The BirdLife Partnership policy team reflect on the gloomy outcome of the latest UN biodiversity meeting in Kenya, saying that governments now have only five…

Tackling biodiversity loss requires ambitious political leadership and will from countries. Without this, the world stares into a bleak future. Tackling biodiversity loss requires ambitious political leadership and will from countries. Without this, the world stares into a bleak future.

Qatar has stressed that it pays great attention to sea resources and natural reserves by managing and protecting the sea environment to ensure its preservation