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Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring has exploded in popularity. A special section inÌýBioScienceÌýdescribes the potential for such efforts to advance the scientific enterprise well into the future…
The theme of equity in area based conservation has never been more topical. Set against the background of the draft and ambitious targets of the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework, nature conservation must place an emphasis on equitable approaches that recognise the rights, governance systems,…
We stand at a crossroads, facing global crises affecting nature and our climate.ÌýAnd we know why this is happening. Fossil fuel productions and emissions, and the destruction of nature put our climate at risk.ÌýDeforestation and ecosystem degradation are driven by fires, agriculture, extractive…
The Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas Programme (Green List for short) was officially launched in 2014 at the World Parks Congress to recognise and promote successful protected and conserved areas around the world. The main objective of the Green List is to encourage protected and…
This International Black Sea Action Day, 31st October, 11 habitats of Red-List Endangered Black Sea harbour porpoises and bottlenose dolphins as well as Vulnerable Black Sea common dolphinsÌýhave been formally awarded Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA) status by the…
Protected and conserved areas always contribute to the conservation of nature – but additionally, they are valuable for human livelihoods, health and well-being, through the services that healthy ecosystems provide. In many cases, the reason for their existence is precisely because they are so…
Back in 2011, extremely warm water temperatures persisting over thousands of kilometres along the coastline of Western AustraliaÌýcaused coral bleaching, mass die-out of marine lifeÌýand wiped out kelp forests. Since then, this phenomenon of abnormally high-water temperatures has been recorded in…
During the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress – held online and in-person in Marseille, France, from 3 to 11 September 2021 - we had an amazing time meeting solution providers and seekers from across the globe.
Without marine plankton our planet would be a different place. Future projections and impact metrics of plankton diversity around the worldÌýare now able to be seen graphically through the MAPMAKER tool. MAPMAKER's new visualisation tools allow data-driven decision-making on marine biodiversity…
17 and 18 November 2021