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On International Day of Biological Diversity 2021, let's look at 20 Aichi targets that will help restore the balance of life on Earth.

2021 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) Share on The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will host the 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming, China, on 17-30 May 2021. The conference will consist of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15), the 10th Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Cartagena Protocol COP/MOP10), and the 4th Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-s...

Reform of the Biodiscovery Act 2004 - have your say As part of the next stage in the reform of Queensland’s biodiscovery laws, consultation is now open on the draft Traditional Knowledge in Biodiscovery Code of Practice and Guidelines. Biodiscovery in Queensland involves the collection and analysis of native biological material (e.g. plants, animals and other organisms) for commercial applications such as pharmaceuticals and insecticides. The reforms aim to better protect First Nations people...

Member states of the World Health Organization have a chance to enact reforms through the International Health Regulations.

Science for just $15 USD. Summary In science news around the world, the United States and 13 other countries criticize a new report by a World Health Organization panel that had visited China to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic started, calling it delayed, incomplete, and not sufficiently independent. A U.S. House of Representatives panel proposes raising the budget of the National Science Foundation by more than double in the next 5 years, to $18.3 billion, and creating a directorate that...

P. LOWRY/MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN   Over the past decade, botanist Pete Lowry has noticed a worrying trend in his field. An expert on the Sciodaphyllum (formerly Schefflera) genus of neotropical plants, he used to have a relatively easy time doing fieldwork abroad, he says. Now, however, he and his colleagues at the Missouri Botanical Garden face a mountain of logistical hurdles to gain permission to work in the various countries they want to visit, let alone bring samples back home with t...

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary) by Jonah Wittkamper on 1 March 2021 In 2019, XPRIZE Rainforest opened its doors and challenged the world to develop new biodiversity assessment technologies by offering a $10 million prize for the best one. In this commentary, Jonah Wittkamper, President of the Global Governance Philanthropy Network and co-founder of NEXUS, makes an economic argument for participating in the contest. Wittkamper says a great deal of va...

Above: San Children in Andriesvaal, Kalahari, South Africa (by Migail de Klerk). Exporting unethical practices to low- and middle-income countries has become the new face of exploitative research, writes Doris Schroeder The Biologist 66(3) p22-25 Bioscientists and biomedical scientists rely heavily on external resources to do their research . While philosophers can publish groundbreaking research after a quiet stay in a mountain hut, bioscientists generally need access to research participants...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Nagoya Protocol is a global agreement, supplementary to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which regulates the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources and traditional knowledge associated with them among the user and provider countries (parties), thereby contributing to the conservation and sustainability of biological diversity. Altho...

In 2018, a new species of centipede graced the pages of the prominent taxonomy journal Zootaxa. More than 14 centimeters long, with striking teal-colored legs, it lives in the montane and mossy forests of the Philippines. Now, however, the centipede is in a harsh spotlight. The Philippine government says the Spanish neurologist and amateur biologist who described the species acquired his specimens illegally. Neither the journal’s editors nor its peer reviewers caught the lapse—and the jour...