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Earlier this week, the international community came together to commemorate World Environment Day (WED). The historical roots of WED can be traced back to 1972 and the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, held in Stockholm. This

National Biodiversity conference, National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP), National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS),

JAKARTA — Indonesian and German scientists are collaborating on assisted reproductive technologies for critically endangered species, with a primary focus on pulling the Sumatran rhino from the brink of extinction. Indonesia’s Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB) and Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) signed the collaboration agreement in May. It calls for […]

The Amazonian giant leaf frog, or kambô (Phyllomedusa bicolor) has bulging eyes and bright green skin, and despite its name, is actually quite small. It’s perhaps best known for its skin secretion, a mucous substance with medicinal properties that several Amazonian Indigenous groups have used for centuries — and which is also attracting the attention […]

GHTC previews five issues we’ll be tracking at this year’s World Health Assembly, set to convene May 22-28.

Finding the next pandemic virus can be tedious and risky but some scientists think it’s achievable.

Professor Nicola Mulder, the head of the Computational Biology division at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the principal investigator of H3ABioNet is on the advisory board of the African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) – a coordinated pan-African

The African BioGenome Project recently highlighted the goals, priorities and roadmap of the Africa-led effort to sequence the genomes of plants, animals, fungi, and protists that are endemic to Africa.

Three meetings critical to developing an ambitious and transformative post-2020 global biodiversity framework to safeguard nature resumed in-person sessions, yesterday

The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) released an official note on March 3, 2022, announcing that it has begun the “Terra Brasilis Operation,” a program to inspect the use of Brazil’s biodiversity.