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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 report marking the start of a Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, the agencies warned that humans are a...

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 connectivity conservation through the sharing of knowledge, tools and lessons learnt. We Are Nature...

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 a global re-greening could help humanity adapt to climate change. In cities, restoring urban forests...

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 globe’s wetlands have been drained. “The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’s mission is as impo...

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 over the past century, half of the globe’s wetlands have been drained. “The UN Decade on Ecosystem ...