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

Plastic-Busters: working towards a Mediterranean free of litter

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 19 February 2016

Plastic-Busters, a project of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), aims to effectively tackle the issue of marine litter in the Mediterranean. With a total budget of 8,810 M Euros over a 4-year period (from 2016 – 2020), the project will assess the amount, sources, pathways, distribution...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on a wiki page | 18 February 2016

Wildlife crisis

Qui veut la peau des éléphants congolais ? Le Vif Rédaction en ligne 18/02/16 à 09:57 - Mise à jour à 17/02/16 à 17:09 Source: Afp Les braconniers des éléphants du nord-est de la République démocratique du Congo sont légion: rebelles, soldats, éleveurs nomades, cavaliers armés, autant d'acteurs du...

Group: Biodiversity for Life
An Integrated Environmental Approach to the SDGs

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 18 February 2016

The Sustainable Development Goals, adopted unanimously by UN member states in September 2015, have given the international community and national governments a number of targets and principles – chief among them, to advance an “integrated approach”. But what does this mean in terms of projects,...

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Presentation of the new EU Action Plan against wildlife trafficking & Screening of the National Geographic and WCS documentary 'Warlords of Ivory'

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude created a new event | 17 February 2016

02 Mar

From 2 March 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by MEPs for Wildlife and the Wildlife Conservation Society

To register, please send your Name, Surname, DOB, Nationality and ID/Passport number to catherine.bearder-office@europarl.europa.eu Deadline extended until 19 February 2061.

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Katharine Mill commented on information | 16 February 2016

The "Larger than Elephants" report is now officially released !

Here is a link to Commissioner Mimica's speech from the event: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/2014-2019/mimica/announcements/official-launch-study-larger-elephants-inputs-eu-strategic-approach-wildlife-conservation-africa_en

Group: Biodiversity for Life
Countries Agree Ambitious Conservation Measures for Mediterranean

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) posted Information | 15 February 2016

40th anniversary of Barcelona Convention celebrated with strong commitments on biodiversity protection, sustainable consumption and climate change adaptation. Athens, 12 February 2016 - Ministers and representatives of 21 Mediterranean countries agreed in Athens an ambitious plan to address...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
We already said Happy New Year, now we say Happy Chinese Year of the Monkey !

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 9 February 2016

On this occasion, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, one of our biggest cooperation partners for biodiversity conservation world wide, has launched a special Year of the Monkdy blog, in order to draw attention to some flagship species that are representative of the biodiversity hotspots where...

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Group: Biodiversity for Life
Arnold Jacques de Dixmude commented on a wiki page | 9 February 2016

Wildlife crisis

What can we do about poaching ? and how ? Here comes an interesting package of tools for those ones - who have read Hermann's Afrika and also all the others :-) - who wish to act instead of just crying of desperation.

Group: Biodiversity for Life
International Meeting to Protect the World's Sharks Convenes Next Week

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 9 February 2016

San José, Costa Rica, 8 February 2016 - Marine wildlife experts from more than 30 governments, the EU, UN agencies, intergovernmental organizations, the civil society and academia will convene in Costa Rica's capital next week to agree on urgent measures to protect shark and ray populations from...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
EU-Honduras Timber Negotiations Strengthen Fight against Illegal Logging

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 8 February 2016

If you have ever been to Honduras, you will know that it is one of the greenest countries in Central America. Forestry has had a long history there and continues to be an important source of energy for the impoverished rural population, as well as maintaining a biologically diverse ecosystem. Over...

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