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

Side event at SPREP annual meeting, on ecosystem services and biodiversity in agriculture in the Pacific Islands

David Colozza updated the event | 30 September 2016

20 Sep

From 20 September 2016
in (Niue)

Organised by FAO-SPREP-SPC

On the occasion of the 27th SPREP Meeting, SPREP and FAO in collaboration with SPC and the CBD Secretariat, with funding support by the European Union, are organizing a panel discussion to inform the preparation of the Technical Guidance Document above-mentioned on Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services...

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
Niue Island Organic Farmers Association

David Colozza uploaded a new Document | 30 September 2016

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Presentation by the Niue Island Organic Farmers Association (NIOFA) delivered at the side event to the SPREP annual meeting in Niue, on 20 September 2016.

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
Ecosystem services and biodiversity for food and agriculture in Niue

David Colozza uploaded a new Document | 30 September 2016

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The presentation was delivered at the side event to the SPREP annual meeting in Niue, 20 September 2016. It highlights key aspects in which biodiversity and natural ecosystems are relevant to the agricultural sector and to food production in Niue; and how this issue is addressed in the Niue...

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity into Agricultural Production and Management to Minimize Dependency on Agrochemicals

David Colozza uploaded a new Document | 30 September 2016

sprep_meeting_tgd_mainstreaming_bd_in_agriculture_sep16_2.pdf 1.98 MB

Introductory presentation to the MEAs 2 project and its aspects of mainstreaming biodiversity into the agriculture and environment sectors, with specific reference to the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) context. The presentation was delivered at the side event to the SPREP meeting held in Niue on...

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Project: Capacity Building related to Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Countries
Apes Seizure Database reveals true extent of illegal trade

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 30 September 2016

29 September 2016 - Over 1,800 great apes were seized from an illicit live traffic that went undetected for over a decade but is now confirmed through the Apes Seizure Database that was launched at the 17th Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Conference of Parties in...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
EU calls for a global partnership to combat illegal wildlife trafficking

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 30 September 2016

The European Union (EU) is looking straight ahead at the challenges of combatting one of the crudest environmental crimes and called for a global partnership to deliver the recently adopted EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking. This is the main conclusion of the workshop on “Delivering and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Peat Destruction, Soil Subsidence and Flooding in South East Asia

Lea Appulo posted Information | 23 September 2016

Agricultural production in vast regions of South East Asia will be lost in the coming decades as a result of flooding of extensive lowland landscapes. The main drivers of peatland destruction are palm oil and pulp for paper plantations that require drainage.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Why are wetlands so important for waterbirds and people?

Lea Appulo posted Information | 23 September 2016

Why are wetlands so important for waterbirds and people? In order to ensure the survival of millions of waterbirds migrating between Europe and Africa every year, and sustain the health of local communities, we are identifying and protecting a critical network of wetlands that are increasingly...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Why are wetlands so important for waterbirds and people?

Lea Appulo posted Information | 23 September 2016

Why are wetlands so important for waterbirds and people? In order to ensure the survival of millions of waterbirds migrating between Europe and Africa every year, and sustain the health of local communities, we are identifying and protecting a critical network of wetlands that are increasingly...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Lunchtime talk at External Cooperation Infopoint: Larger than Tigers - Conservation in Asia, a new strategic approach

Katharine Mill created a new event | 22 September 2016

27 Sep

From 27 September 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by B4Life Facility with DEVCO C2

Presentation of the results of a study to develop an EU strategic approach to biodiversity conservation in Asia, including an analysis of the current context and challenges, and identification of priority areas for an EU response.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life

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