Biodiversity & Ecosystem services

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Air pollution and preservation - Bio trade - Bio-diversity monitoring - Bio-diversity policies - Biodiversity conservation accompanying measures - Conservation - Ecosystem services - Ecotourism - Hunting and poaching - Marine pollution control - Natural resource management - Sustainable Land management - Water resources conservation - Wildlife crisis - Wildlife trade & trafficking

Conservationnnists and space agencies must collaborate to better monitor biodiversity

Philippe MAYAUX posted Information | 17 August 2015

A recently published Nature article focused on the importance of identifying essential biodiversity variables and the need to produce a strategy to allow them to be tracked globally from space. Biodiversity is not evenly distributed, but varies greatly around the globe as well as within regions...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Western Ghats video/International Day for the World’s Indigenous People

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 10 August 2015

Through the work of Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund grantee organizations in India, the role of indigenous tribal groups in conserving the Western Ghats is being increasingly appreciated. Along with this appreciation is coming formal recognition of their rights to use and conserve forest...

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Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on a wiki page | 10 August 2015

Wildlife crisis

Il y a encore du boulot pour contrer le braconnage et le trafic de la vie sauvage... et c'est de plus en plus urgent ! http://www.lalibre.be/actu/planete/la-justice-impuissante-face-au-braconnage-des-rhinoceros-en-afrique-du-sud-55c82b893570b54653330b7f La justice impuissante face au braconnage des...

Group: Biodiversity for Life
African Ecological Futures - WWF/African Development Bank report

Emilie Van der Henst uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2015

african_ecological_futures.pdf 7.58 MB

WWF and the African Development Bank recently launched the 2015 African Ecological Futures report, highlighting a development path that can bring long-term well-being and prosperity while valuing and safeguarding Africa’s rich natural resources. The report makes the case for sustainable growth that...

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Today, the UN General Assembly adopts its first Resolution ever on wildlife trafficking !

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude updated the Information | 31 July 2015

This has been fully supported by the European Union and its 28 Member-States. With special thanks and congratulations to the two co-chairs of the Group of Friends on Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking, Gabon and Germany, and to our colleagues of the EU Delegation to the UN in New York! Find...

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Statement on behalf of the European Union and its Member States upon adoption of draft resolution on "Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife".

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude uploaded a new Document | 31 July 2015

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Today, the UN General Assembly adopts its first Resolution ever on wildlife trafficking !

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 30 July 2015

This has been fully supported by the European Union and its 28 Member-States. With special thanks and congratulations to the two co-chairs of the Group of Friends on Poaching and Illicit Wildlife Trafficking, Gabon and Germany, and to our colleagues of the EU Delegation to the UN in New York! Find...

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Tackling illicit trafficking in wildlife

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude uploaded a new Document | 30 July 2015

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Programmes and Projects

Katharine Mill updated the WIKI page | 23 July 2015

EU International Partnerships funds numerous projects and programmes that support biodiversity conservation and human development. Here is a selection of links related to recent or current projects. (Please let us know if you have other links we can include here.): Cross-Regional Wildlife...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Programmes and Projects

Philippe MAYAUX created a new WIKI page | 23 July 2015

EU International Partnerships funds numerous projects and programmes that support biodiversity conservation and human development. Here is a selection of links related to recent or current projects. (Please let us know if you have other links we can include here.): Cross-Regional Wildlife...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life

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