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Global Paris-style biodiversity agreement lacks scientific basis, researchers warn Efforts to formulate a "Paris-style" agreement to halt global biodiversity loss lack definition, fails to align with the scientific need to reverse nature loss and place Indigenous People at risk, according to a global alliance of NGOs. The ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’ is set to be adopted by governments when the Conference of Parties to the CBD meets in Kunming, China, on October 21 Two technica...

Share 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 current and future threats to migr...

May 6, 2021 A small herd of wildebeest walk across the Masai Mara Plains in Kenya at sunset. Matthew Kauffman, who directs the USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at UW, is the lead author of a paper, titled “Mapping Out a Future for Ungulate Migrations,” that will appear in the May 7 issue of Science. 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 par...

Credit: Munir Virani May 6, 2021 -- 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 of herds worldwide will help governments, indigenous people and local communities, planners and wildlife managers identify current and future t...

Ebony Holland is a senior researcher and Dilys Roe principal researcher in IIEDs Natural Resources research group Rural landscape in Bolivia. Conservation efforts must consider Indigenous Peoples and local communities, whose knowledge and experience could support conservation goals that are often overlooked (Photo: Bioversity International/Alfredo Camacho via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This week, negotiators from 196 countries under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are gathering vir...

A draft plan outlining projects and services to be delivered across the MidCoast during 2021-22, along with MidCoast Council's draft annual operating...

You can follow some of the people you have heard in this episode on Twitter at @lizcarlile and @KrystynaSwider4. Follow the podcast on @IIED_Voices for all the latest updates.  Indigenous knowledge, people and nature – all crucial to Kunming full transcript Host [00:00:01]: You are listening to Make Change Happen, the podcast from the International Institute for Environment and Development, IIED. In this episode, host Liz Carlile talks with colleagues and international partners abou...

Keeping soils alive and healthy is key to sustain life on our planet FAO-hosted Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity closes with a call to recognize a vital role of soil organisms 23 April 2021, Rome - The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) drew to a close with a call to recognize and enhance the role of soil organisms in sustaining life on Earth. Soils are one of the main global reservoirs of biodiversity. They h...

2021-04-21 01:05:16 GMT2021-04-21 09:05:16(Beijing Time) Xinhua English UNITED NATIONS, April 20 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy said Tuesday that high political importance must be given to COP15, the biggest biodiversity summit in a decade scheduled to take place October in Kunming, China. "We need to give high political importance to COP15," Zhang Jun, Chinas permanent representative to the United Nations, told the high-level event of Raising Ambition for Nature. COP15 refers to the 15th m...

Closeup of worm culture. Worms are used to improve soil quality. ROME, 20 April 2021 (FAO)* –– The Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 19 April 2021 kicked off with a call to preserve this vast community of living soil organisms and the vital ecosystem services they provide. Soils are one of the main global reservoirs of biodiversity. They host more than 25 percent of the world’s supply of this valued resour...