Today is the 2018 World Day to Combat Desertification which is being observed all over the world to promote awareness on international efforts to combat desertification. The slogan for the year is 鈥楲and has true value. Invest in it鈥. The slogan emphasis on the value of the land that is not鈥
The WCEL Chair, Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin, visited United Nations Headquarters to sign an MoU between WCEL and the Secretariat of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF).
Governments should invest in healthy, living soils by channelling agricultural subsidies towards sustainable farming methods. If done right, agriculture can conserve the diversity of species found in soils, helping halt land degradation and desertification. This in turn helps countries ensure鈥
A recently released 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 technical brief recommends increasing investments in sustainable land management practices, as well as better cooperation between agriculturalists and conservationists to conserve healthy soils.聽
More than 1.5 billion smallholders throughout the聽world depend on forest landscapes to produce food,聽fuel, timber and non-wood forest products to meet聽their subsistence needs and generate cash income.聽Despite the large number of smallholders and the large聽collective scale of their production,鈥
On 13 June 2018, 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 and the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council hosted a reception at the 香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播 European Regional Office in Brussels on the future of nature protection in Europe after 2020.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (香港六合彩开奖结果现场直播) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) celebrated their respective anniversaries at the welcoming event for the Biodiversity and Protected Areas鈥
Soil biodiversity and soil organic carbon are vital to the way ecosystems function and they largely determine聽the role of land in producing food, storing water, and mitigating climate change.聽This report highlights how soil organic carbon and soil biodiversity provide the foundation for鈥
The loss of global tree cover reached a record 29.7 million hectares in 2016. While ambitious programmes across Asia to restore forest landscapes and help support rural communities are growing, there remains inadequate financing throughout the region and the world鈥
The Sundarbans, a vast forest in the coastal region of the Bay of Bengal, are considered one of the natural wonders of the world. Lying adjacent is Sabkhali, a largely agricultural village, highly vulnerable to climate change and tidal surges, salt water intrusion, and waterlogging. The area is鈥