Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau addresses the 2022 UN biodiversity conference in Montreal.
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Global summits to arrest Earth’s deteriorating health look increasingly farcical.
The Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted their new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework on Dec.19, 2022.
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As protected and conserved areas increase, an equity-based approach that respects Indigenous rights can help bring the transformative changes we need to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.
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Human rights law could be used to make sure countries abide by the agreement made at the COP15 summit.
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The UN biodiversity summit COP15 in Montreal is over. Here’s what should happen next.
Sorting collected Dendrobium flowers in Guizhou province, China, June 28, 2020.
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Dendrobium orchids are familiar to most people in bouquets, but they are in high demand in China for use in traditional medicines. Can Beijing find ways to grow these threatened plants sustainably?
California red-legged frogs are threatened with extinction.
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Amphibians have been devastated by a chytrid fungus pandemic. Researchers immunized California red-legged frogs in Yosemite to give them a fighting chance at survival, with surprising results.
Asian elephants in a tea plantation in Assam, India.
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Human-wildlife conflict can undermine public support for conservation.
Digital technologies like drones are being heavily promoted to address the threats of climate change and biodiversity loss.
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Digital technologies have the potential to yield positive results, if co-developed and used ethically with Indigenous communities.
Overfishing leads to the deaths of millions of sharks each year.
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Countries have voted to limit the international shark trade, but this fails to account for the diversity in fishing contexts around the world.
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Getting that detail right could mean the difference between a species surviving, or disappearing forever.
The Fulford Harbour sea garden clam bed was built by First Nations in the Salish Sea near Salt Spring Island, B.C. Despite growing recognition that lands managed by Indigenous Peoples are, on average, more biodiverse, biodiversity conservation has typically marginalized Indigenous Peoples.
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As we set conservation goals for the next decade, we need to evaluate what worked and what didn’t in our efforts to meet the 2020 biodiversity conservation targets.
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Negotiators hope to put humanity on a path to harmonious coexistence with nature by 2050.
Prince William at the awards in Boston, US.
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The environmental awards gave cash to climate scientists, conservationists and inventors.
Donkeys allow herders to travel further in the rocky terrain of southern Tunisia.
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Pastoral communities should be included in conservation initiatives – but the ecology of pastoral lands has long been misunderstood.
Red knots stop to feed along the Delaware shore as they migrate from the high Arctic to South America.
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Governments, scientists and conservation groups are working to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water for nature by 2030. Two scientists explain why scale matters for reaching that goal.
Redwood forests like this one in California can store large amounts of carbon, but not if they’re being cut down.
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Millions of dollars have gone into California’s forest carbon offset program – with little new carbon storage to show for it, a new study suggests.
Hammerhead sharks schooling near Costa Rica’s Cocos Island.
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A study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.
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Seeing an animal in distress after disaster makes us want to help. But feeding them doesn’t always make the situation better.
A herder grazes cattle alongside wildlife in Samburu, Kenya.
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Conservation that places less emphasis on who may or may not use a piece of land could result in better outcomes for people and wildlife.
A squadron of reef manta rays at a feeding site in Raja Ampat.
Our new, world-first research provides strong evidence of a significant increase in reef manta rays in protected areas of Raja Ampat over a decade.