The National Biodiversity Authority has released a new set of rules to manage sharing of benefits generated through the use of biological resources. The Biological Diversity (Access to biological Resources and Knowledge Associated thereto and Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits) Regulation 2025 was approved by the Central government and …
The book entitled "Biodiversity of Angola, Science and Conservation: A Modern Synthesis" brings general aspects of the national biodiversity, related to fauna, marine, floristic aspects, among others. The book has 703 pages, 20 chapters which can be addressed by an emerging generation of biodiversity scientists and conservation professionals in Angola. …
Signed the document are National Institute of Biodiversity and Conservation Areas of the Ministry of the Environment (INBAC) and the Center for Research on Biodiversity and Genetic Resources of Portugal (CIBIO) Speaking to the press, INBAC director general, Aristófanes Romão da Cunha Pontes, said the objective is to promote Angola, …
Humanity’s ongoing destruction of wildlife will lead to a shrinking of nature, with the average body size of animals falling by a quarter, a study predicts. The researchers estimate that more than 1,000 larger species of mammals and birds will go extinct in the next century, from rhinos to eagles. …
The UN has proclaimed May 22 as the International Day for Biological Diversity to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues. The theme for 2019 is “Our Biodiversity, Our Food, Our Health” emphasising the diversity provided by our natural systems for human existence and wellbeing on earth, while contributing to …
The coastal and sub-montane forest of Eastern Africa is ranked as one of the world's most endangered biodiversity hotspots. The East Usambara landscape represents one of the larger forest blocks within this hotspot, and contains species such as the critically-endangered long-billed tailorbird and the endangered Usambara weaver. Approximately 135,000 people …
Infrastructure development and other human-made changes are the leading contributors to connectivity loss in global rivers, resulting in disrupted ecosystem services, claimed researchers. Just over one-third (37 per cent) of the world's 246 longest rivers remain free-flowing, according to a new study published in the journal of Nature. A team …
Pune: Environmentalists in the city have called the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Pashan lake restoration and beautification work ecologically insensitive. The restoration and beautification work at the lake was completed about four years ago. In 2017, the civic body awarded a project to the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and an …
Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history — and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts on people around the world now likely, warns a landmark new report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the summary of which was …
The island nation of Madagascar has a dubious accolade: it is the world-leader in deforestation. Now, some of the island's teenagers have started a farming revolution - working to stop food production from destroying the island's rich rainforest. The bridge across the river to Mangabe has collapsed. Probably many years …
As Madagascar’s recently elected president completed his first 100 days in office, experts identify five priority areas for conservation. In a new comment piece in Nature Sustainability, the experts highlight the need for setting conservation goals that are aligned with the sustainable development of the country. Strengthening the rights of …
This publication explores emerging concepts, challenges, and key policy and law tools to help inform governments as they modernize public sector planning to better address 21st century change and advance their sustainable development goals. The focus is on strengthening spatial planning approaches to be more comprehensive, integrated, spatially and ecosystem …
The Convention on Biological Diversity’s 15th Conference of the Parties (CBD COP15) in 2020 marks a critical juncture for one of the defining global challenges of our time: the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, which underpin nearly all of the Sustainable Development Goals. Transformative changes are needed to ensure …
In recent years synthetic biology has emerged as a suite of techniques and technologies that enable humans to read, interpret, modify, design and manufacture DNA in order to rapidly influence the forms and functions of cells and organisms, with the potential to reach whole species and ecosystems. As synthetic biology …
Forest Survey of India (FSI) Director General, Dr Subash Ashutosh today said that Jammu & Kashmir State has shown an increasing trend of forest carbon in last 10 years. He was addressing officers of J&K; Forest Department here at one day workshop on E-Greenwatch portal for digital monitoring of plantation …
Amphibians across the world are experiencing “catastrophic population declines” from a widening range of interacting pathogens, scientists say. Fungal disease chytridiomycosis is thought to have caused the extinction of 90 amphibian species around the world and the marked decline of at least 491 others over the last 20 years. According …
Several crowdfunding campaigns have helped to not just save the native species from extinction but also with their rehabilitation. New Delhi: It's an alarming sign when environmental issues take center stage at an economic forum. An unmistakable sense of urgency marked the discussions around these issues at the World Economic …
Sri Lanka is seeking greater international protection for several lizard species found nowhere else on Earth. The country hosts the next meeting of CITES next month, where it will propose several endemic lizard species for inclusion in the convention’s Appendix I, including the Knuckles pygmy lizard (Cophotis dumbara), considered critically …
The future of farming has to look different from farming today. Tremendously different. Otherwise, we will risk losing even more biodiversity, continue with polluting water bodies, driving erosion and running down soil fertility. And we will never reach the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), many of which directly relate to …
NEW DELHI: The near-irreversible damage done to the Aravalis by human greed in the name of development is well chronicled. However, there is still some hope of saving the hills, as is evident from a visit to the Aravalli Biodiversity Park on the outskirts of the city. What started as …
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found a dramatic decline of 14 wild bee species that are, among other things, important across the Northeast for the pollination of major local crops like apples, blueberries and cranberries. "We know that wild bees are greatly at risk and not doing …
