As governments and business struggle to reconcile conservation and economic goals, the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress will debate the first-ever global policy on biodiversity offsets -- a mechanism increasingly used to compensate for the residual negative impacts of development projects on…
It’s not just the final destination that makes a journey worthwhile, but everything we learn along the way.
Children, youth and adults (primary and secondary students, institutional and municipal authorities, and representatives of communities and local organizations) will meet at previously identified sites in Panama and Costa Rica to plant more than…
A Call for Proposals is now open for Solomon Islands and VanuatuÂ
The IPAMed project keeps surprising its volunteers! This summer during one of the monitoring sessions at Prespa Lake IPA, volunteers of the Macedonian Ecological Society have found a rare carnivorous plant species Aldrovanda vesiculosa (waterwheel plant) that has not been sighted in this…
Earlier this month, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) and Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ Thailand organised a two-day training course for 30 representatives from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on project development, proposal writing and effective project implementation for biodiversity conservation in…
In South Asia, vulture populations have reduced drastically since 1990s due to veterinary use of pain-killers. Highlighting some recent developments in Bangladesh, this article explains how conserving vultures gives us an opportunity to change the…
Harboring six protected areas and six indigenous territories, the Sixaola river basin is characterized by biological and cultural diversity. However, social and environmental problems in this area require coordinated, binational attention due to the connectivity existing between Talamanca,…
Less than a month away from the kick-off of the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥ World Conservation Congress in Hawaii, a team of scientists report in the journal Nature that three quarters of the world’s threatened species are imperiled because people are converting their habitat into agricultural lands and overharvesting…
The Yellow Sea ecosystem of tidal wetlands, associated habitats and the biodiversity that depends on them is one of the ecological wonders of the world. The ecosystem represents the largest muddy tidal area on the planet, and is the most important staging site for migratory…