Convention on Biological Diversity - News & Publications
30 May 2008
UN 2010 biodiversity target in the balance - WWF
Bonn, Germany – The biggest ever United Nations conference held to tackle worldwide biodiversity loss closed today without producing a clear roadmap to achieve the 2010 target to substantially reduce biodiversity loss, WWF said. » Read more
UN 2010 biodiversity target in the balance - WWF
Bonn, Germany – The biggest ever United Nations conference held to tackle worldwide biodiversity loss closed today without producing a clear roadmap to achieve the 2010 target to substantially reduce biodiversity loss, WWF said. » Read more
29 May 2008
Historic agreement force for biodiversity in south-eastern Europe
Bonn, Germany, 29 May – Committing to regional cooperation in sustainable development, six governments of south-eastern Europe will today sign an agreement to dramatically expand cross border conservation efforts. » Read more
29 May 2008
WWF applauds “Stern-like” recognition of biodiversity loss as key global issue
WWF today welcomed the long overdue recognition of biodiversity as a key development issue, in a major report released today at the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Bonn, Germany. » Read more
26 May 2008
Vast bounty at risk from under protected oceans
Bonn, May 26, 2008 –Oceans offer a vast bounty to mankind – in food, climate and coastal protection, medicine and new technologies – a new WWF Germany study of the ocean's value has found. But the ocean's bounty is at risk from very low levels of protection from over-exploitation. » Read more
24 May 2008
Human well-being better in a better protected environment
Bonn, May 22, 2008 – Well planned and managed protected areas can play a key role in reducing poverty, with the relationship strengthened when well-being is measured as more than just income, according to a new analysis by WWF “But it is vital that those involved in establishing and managing protected areas remember that people are also part of the landscape,” said WWF's Liza Higgins-Zogib. » Read more
22 May 2008
Basic food crops dangerously vulnerable
Bonn, Germany, May 22, 2008 – As a deadly new strain of Black Stem Rust devastates wheat harvests across Africa and Arabia, and threatens the staple food supply of a billion people from Egypt to Pakistan, the areas where potentially crop and life-saving remnant wild wheat relatives grow are only minimally protected. » Read more
20 May 2008
Therapy needed for medicinal plants
It is well known that there are plants that save lives; the question now is who saves these plants from over- exploitation, habitat loss and a host of other threats. WWF, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and their joint affiliate, the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC have set up an initiative directed to "Saving Plants that Save Lives and Livelihoods".
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16 May 2008
Biodiversity loss puts people at risk
Future generations face hunger, thirst, disease and disaster if we carry on losing biodiversity. And as biodiversity plummets our use of resources soars - WWF now estimates that biodiversity on our planet has declined by more than a quarter in the last 35 years. » Read more
29 Apr 2008
The 2010 Biodiversity target in EU Development Cooperation
Halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 - a critical challenge for EU external development. » Read more
The 2010 Biodiversity target in EU Development Cooperation
Halting the loss of biodiversity by 2010 - a critical challenge for EU external development. » Read more
12 Mar 2008
Bloated Mediterranean tuna fleet in race for the last bluefin
Rome, Italy – The most comprehensive analysis yet of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fleet shows it conservatively having twice the fishing capacity of current quotas and more than three and a half times the catch levels recommended by scientists to avoid stock collapse. » Read more
