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Human rights must be at heart of new biodiversity framework, experts say by Kimberley Brown on 25 May 2021 A new study by the ICCA Consortium, an international association, says human rights must be included in conservation policies to save the world’s vanishing biodiversity. The study focuses on 17 Indigenous and local communities worldwide, showing how their traditional practices and unique governance systems protect ecosystems and biomes better than states or other bodies. Researchers ins...

Project April 2020 to March 2022 IIED is keen to ensure that the final post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that is negotiated by Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity is not just good for nature, but good for people too. Throughout 2020 and 2021 discussions are ongoing as to the content of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that will be agreed at the 15 The framework includes goals and targets that are intended to halt biodiversity loss and put nature on a road ...

Biodiversity is foundation that sustains us all in aftermath of COVID 19 pandemic, says WWF official.

Negotiations towards a new global framework for protecting biodiversity are resuming online this month after being disrupted by the pandemic

Credit: Joan de la Malla An international study led by the ICTA-UAB states that recognizing indigenous peoples and local communities rights and agency is critical to addressing the current biodiversity crisis Policies established by the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) could be ineffective if the rights and agency of indigenous peoples and local communities are not recognized and fully incorporated into biodiversity management. This is supp...

by Born Free USA in GNRII on May 21, 2021 Before COVID-19, world leaders and climate activists declared 2020 a “super year for nature” with vital international negotiations scheduled on the biodiversity and climate crises. As the pandemic spread, these negotiations were postponed to 2021, and we are now gearing up for a series of landmark meetings that, together, will set the international policy agenda on climate change and nature for decades to come. Born Free, a global leader in wildli...

The post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) will be a major milestone in global agreements on biodiversity conservation, setting international ambition for the next decade. This guide is intended to support Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) who wish to see strengthened equity provisions in the draft GBF. It helps negotiators develop national positions and covers the arguments for making equity provisions central to the GBF. It is the first in a series designed to sup...

Issued: Fri, 07 May 2021 07:30:00 BST An international team of 91 scientists and conservationists, including from the University of Glasgow, has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the United Nations’ Convention on Migratory Species (CMS). The detailed maps of the seasonal movements of herds worldwide will help governments, indigenous people and local communities, planners, and wildlife managers to identify cu...

First-ever global initiative to map mammal migrations ​ By IANS | ​ 6 Views First-ever global initiative to map mammal migrations. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, May 7 : An international team of 92 scientists and conservationists has joined forces to create the first-ever global atlas of ungulate (hooved mammal) migrations, working in partnership with the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), a UN treaty. The detailed maps of the seasonal movements...

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