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Protected areas are a central instrument to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), its Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, and the 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. Amazonian countries hold 390 million hectares of such protected areas. Aichi Targets 11, 17, and 18 call for their effective governance and management, and the active participation of indigenous and other local resource user groups and respect for traditional knowledge and customary practices. The paper analyzes five transboundary protected areas in Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia to assess to what extent and in wh...

At meetings to be held from March 14 in Geneva, officials are set to discuss whether access- and benefit-sharing limitations should apply to digital sequence information.

Three meetings critical to developing an ambitious and transformative post-2020 global biodiversity framework necessary to accelerate the transformations needed to safeguard the health of the planet will be held in Geneva between March ...

KOTA KINABALU, March 8 — Eleven local and international organisations here have submitted a letter and report to the United Nations (UN) calling attention to the controversial carbon credit deal in Sabah which they claim are against international law, standards and institutions. The organisations...

When South African scientists discovered a new variant of the coronavirus, they shared their findings quickly and widely.