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

UNEP 2015 Annual Report

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) uploaded a new Document | 29 April 2016

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Annual Report of UNEP on its work in 2015. The report highlights many achievements in support of sustainable development, including the redirection of hundreds of billions of dollars in private capital to a better future for all humanity.

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Wildlife Conservation for Development

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 29 April 2016

Africa’s wildlife is disappearing at an alarming rate, encroached on by a human population set to double by 2050. The latest European Commission report on conserving the continent’s biodiversity is entitled ‘Larger than Elephants’, reflecting that the species and landscapes at risk go far beyond...

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Katharine Mill commented on a wiki page | 28 April 2016

Wildlife crisis

A thorough BBC News report on the various challenges and different approaches to wildlife conservation in Africa. Very timely given the attacks in Garamba last weekend. The war on elephants How the very existence of Africa’s elephants is threatened by poachers, traffickers and Asia’s appetite for...

Group: Biodiversity for Life
African Ministers Pledge Accelerated Action on Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Illegal Trade in Wildlife ahead of UNEA-2

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 26 April 2016

Ministers of environment and representatives of over 45 African countries meeting in Cairo from 16 to 19 April have agreed to accelerate action on issues ranging from the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to climate change and the illegal trade in wildlife. At the close...

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Latin America and Caribbean Nations Pledge Coordinated Action on Climate Change, Air Quality and Chemicals Safety

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) updated the Information | 25 April 2016

Cartagena de Indias, 31 March 2016 – Latin American and Caribbean Ministers of Environment committed on Thursday to accelerate collective action on a set of priorities ranging from climate change and air quality to safe management of chemicals, ahead of the second UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-2),...

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RIP brave rangers: 3 dead, 2 injured after clash with elephant poachers in Garamba National Park, DRC

Katharine Mill posted Information | 25 April 2016

Tragic news from Garamba National Park in DRC, where three rangers have died after a shootout on Saturday with elephant poachers. A fourth ranger and the park manager sustained gunshot wounds. Garamba is managed by African Parks Network with support from the EU Biodiversity for Life (B4Life)...

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The European Development Days 2016 (EDDs2016)

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 25 April 2016

15 Jun

From 15 June 2016
Organised by European Commission

UNEP is organizing three lab sessions during this year’s European Development Days [1], and will contribute to one high-level auditorium panel organized by IUCN. All these events will take place on the 15th of June 2016 in Brussels, Belgium. [1] https://eudevdays.eu/

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Film Screening for World Environment Day

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 25 April 2016

07 Jun

From 7 June 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by UNEP, UNRIC, UNODC and WWF

In the context of the global WED theme UNEP, UNODC, UNRIC and WWF will screen the documentary film ‘Racing Extinction’ (2015) as a CinéONU event on 7 June. The film focusses on the human induced loss of biodiversity and illegal wildlife trade. A panel discussion will complement the screening.

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
World Environment Day 2016

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) created a new event | 25 April 2016

05 Jun

From 5 June 2016
in Brussels (Belgium)

Organised by IBGE

The Brussels Institute for Environment (IBGE) is organizing an event in Parc Cinquantenaire [1] in Brussels on 5 June around the theme of ‘good food’. UNEP has applied for a stand in the park along with the World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) and UNRIC. [1] http...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Celebrating Earth Day: Protecting Trees in Haiti

Arnold Jacques de Dixmude posted Information | 22 April 2016

A rare Juniper tree (Juniperus eckmanii) grows in Haiti's Forêt des Pin. © CBNB/photo by Fanch Le Hir The theme for this year's Earth Day — Trees for the Earth — holds significance for people and species in the biodiversity hotspots. With only 2 percent of its original forest cover remaining, Haiti...

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