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Friday, 4 June 2021, 6:19 am An area of land roughly the size of China needs restoring if the planet’s biodiversity and the communities who rely on it are to be protected, UN agencies said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) call to reinstate at least one billion degraded hectares of land by 2030 must also be matched by a similar commitment to the oceans, or else risk a growing threat to global food security, they added. In a new ...

Event description Join key connectivity conservation experts for the first webinar in the Art of Connecting series: We Are Nature About this event About this Event Join key connectivity conservation experts for the first webinar in the Art of Connecting series: We Are Nature: enhancing connections between human and environmental health. Run by the Conservation Across Large Landscapes Australia New Zealand (CALLANZ) network the webinar series seeks to aid the practice and science of...

UNEP / Duncan Moore / 25 Mar 2021 (UNEP)* — Did you know nature is one of humanity’s best defences for adapting to climate change? A new funding opportunity is scaling up ecosystem-based adaptation across the world. The call for proposals is now The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is launching in June this year. The goal is ambitious – to trigger a global movement for restoring the world’s ecosystems. This is not merely for nature’s sake, say experts. Mounting evidence shows that ...

15 March 2021 (UNEP)* — The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – set to launch during World Environment Day on 5 June – aims to rally citizens, governments and corporations around one common goal: preventing, halting and reversing the destruction of natural spaces. The drive comes as experts warn that ecosystems around the world are facing collapse. The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year – an area larger than Denmark – and over the past century, half of the gl...

Five things the world is saying about ecosystem restoration The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – set to launch during World Environment Day on 5 June – aims to rally citizens, governments and corporations around one common goal: preventing, halting and reversing the destruction of natural spaces. The drive comes as experts warn that ecosystems around the world are facing collapse. The planet is losing 4.7 million hectares of forests every year – an area larger than Denmark – and ove...

Photo: RBMA / 18 Jan 2021 Bereaved families and civil society organizations, with the support of the Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve and the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact, which include some of Brazil’s most respected restoration scientists, launched a tree-planting, wildlife conservation and restoration drive on 12 December 2020 to honour the memories of those who have lost their lives to COVID-19 and to thank health workers. The Pact is helping restoration efforts across 17 states in B...

Published: - Jan 22, 2021 This initiative supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) seeks to plant 200,000 trees in commemoration of the 200,000 victims of COVID-19 . To date, the Latin American country has more than 211,000 deaths from the virus. / Photo: Fundação Brasil Cidadão LatinAmerican Post | Vanesa López Romero Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio tag. Brazil is one of the countries that has been most affected by the COVID-19 ...