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Conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss, shows new study

Apr 26, 2024, at 07:01 pm

A new study published online on Thursday (April 25,2024)  in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nature conservation successful, but that scaling conservation interventions up would be transformational for halting and reversing biodiversity loss—a crisis that can lead to ecosystem collapses and a planet less able to support life—and reducing the effects of climate change.

New global fund ‘welcome boost’ to safeguarding biodiversity

Aug 26, 2023, at 09:42 pm

A new global environmental fund marks a major step towards securing the wellbeing of biodiversity in developing countries and will help to ensure sustainable utilization of their natural resources, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.

Nagaland: Chakhesang Public Organisation undertakes massive tree plantation drive to preserve biodiversity

Jun 08, 2023, at 05:29 pm

Phek/Nagaland: The Chakhesang Public Organisation (CPO), in line with their resolution made 23 years ago, is launching a significant tree plantation initiative to commemorate Chakhesang Day and celebrate 50 years of Phek district's formation.

Biodiversity Day: Protecting humanity’s ‘life-support system’

May 23, 2023, at 07:38 pm

New York: The theme of the International Day for Biological Diversity, observed on Monday, centres on moving from talk to action: build back biodiversity.

Revive and restore wetlands, home to 40 per cent of all biodiversity

Feb 03, 2023, at 07:00 pm

New York: Although coastal and freshwater wetlands – such as swamps, mangroves and marshes - contain 40 per cent of all plant and animal species, many are polluted or degraded due to climate change and human development.

UN conference concludes with ‘historic’ deal to protect a third of the world’s biodiversity

Dec 20, 2022, at 09:02 pm

New York: The UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, concluded early on Monday in Montreal, Canada, with a landmark agreement to protect 30 per cent of the planet’s lands, coastal areas and inland waters by the end of the decade.

‘Without nature, we have nothing’: UN chief sounds alarm at key UN biodiversity event

Dec 07, 2022, at 05:39 pm

New York: The UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, began on Tuesday in Montreal, Canada, where negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.

COP27: Protecting biodiversity is protecting the Paris Agreement

Nov 18, 2022, at 10:25 pm

New York: For many years the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis have been treated as separate issues, but the reality – as highlighted on Wednesday at COP27– is that there is no viable route to limiting global warming to 1.5°C without urgently protecting and restoring nature.

Conference opens to draft first-ever treaty on ocean’s biological diversity

Aug 16, 2022, at 09:21 pm

New York: The intergovernmental conference to draft the first-ever treaty on the ocean’s biological diversity opened its fifth and likely final session on Monday.

Biodiversity and ecosystem protection highlighted on Mother Earth Day

Apr 23, 2022, at 09:19 pm

New York: Marking International Mother Earth Day, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid urged on Friday, for collective action to safeguard biodiversity and protect ecosystems.

Biodiversity commitment builds hope for 'living in harmony with nature'

Oct 15, 2021, at 07:06 pm

New York: More than 100 countries on Wednesday committed to develop, adopt and implement an effective post-2020 global framework, that aims to put biodiversity on a path to recovery, by 2030 at the latest. 

Minorities are 'key partners' in saving planet's biodiversity – UN expert

Aug 20, 2021, at 06:06 pm

New York: The global initiative to save the planet's biodiversity on land and water must not be allowed to threaten the world's most vulnerable people, a top human rights expert said on Thursday.

Restoration call for area ‘the size of China’ to protect falling biodiversity and food insecurity

Jun 04, 2021, at 09:55 pm

New York: 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.

India's invasive alien fish poses threat to biodiversity hotspots

May 22, 2021, at 03:05 am

Extreme climate events may aid the spread of alien species in biodiversity hotspots, such as the 2018 and 2019 flood-driven release of alien species like the alligator gar from illegal aquaculture farms in Kerala to its natural water bodies. Compliance and enforcement of existing environment protection laws in India can check the spread of alien species, reports Mongabay India writer Sahana Ghosh

Biodiversity at risk, threatens human survival, UN forum hears

Mar 26, 2021, at 10:43 pm

New York: As the living tissue of the earth, biodiversity is “intimately linked to human health” the head of the UN’s scientific agency told a global forum on Wednesday, noting that “we are part of that living tissue”.

Hunger rising in mountain regions due to biodiversity loss, climate change

Dec 12, 2020, at 09:14 pm

New York: Although many of the world’s most important crops and livestock species originate in mountain regions, hunger is rising in these areas due to biodiversity loss and climate change, according to a joint study published on Friday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners.

France joins international program to reverse biodiversity loss by 2030

Sep 29, 2020, at 11:05 pm

Moscow/Sputnik: France has joined 64 other nations for the so-called Leaders’ Pledge for Nature initiative to curb the biodiversity loss on the planet by the end of the decade, French Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili said on Tuesday.

UN report highlights links between ‘unprecedented biodiversity loss’ and spread of disease

Sep 16, 2020, at 02:49 pm

New York: The continued degradation of the environment is increasing the likelihood of diseases spreading from animals to humans, warns a UN report on biodiversity, released on Tuesday.

Biodiversity ‘fundamental’ for global food systems, at “heart’ of development – UN agriculture chief

Feb 25, 2020, at 03:40 pm

New York/IBNS: Because the production of everything we eat transforms the environment, the United Nations agriculture chief told a high-level UN meeting on biodiversity that careful discussions are needed to decide on the scale of acceptable transformations.

Mobile protected areas needed to preserve biodiversity in the high seas

Jan 18, 2020, at 04:31 pm

Washington/IBNS: World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argue this week, to introduce new techniques that allow protected zones to shift as species move under climate change.

Shrinking biodiversity poses major risk to the future of global food and agriculture, landmark UN report shows

Feb 23, 2019, at 09:26 am

New York, Feb 23 (IBNS): With the biodiversity of plants cultivated for food shrinking, the global population’s health, livelihoods and environment are under severe threat. This warning from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) comes as the UN agency releases a new report – the first of its kind – on the state of the world’s biodiversity in food and agriculture.

Major reports on biodiversity, ecosystem services to be launched at UN-backed meeting in Medellin

Mar 16, 2018, at 03:13 pm

New York, Mar 16 (JEN): With our planet’s flora and fauna facing unprecedented threats, science and policy experts are set to gather next week in Medellin, Colombia, for a United Nations-backed meeting to consider five landmark reports aiming to inform better decisions by Governments, businesses and even individuals on biodiversity, and issues of land degradation and restoration.

Canada: A news study promotes action on climate change

Apr 05, 2017, at 01:18 am

Toronto, Apr 4 (IBNS): A new study “Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being” by Tero Mustonen and Kaisu Mustonen has been published on Friday in science, indicating some species moving to cooler areas of the planet to survive the climate change, media reports said.