Biodiversity

Exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods

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Biodiversity and conservation

UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Where to find IIED and partners at COP17: event listing

Event on 19 October 2026

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News

New five-year strategy to reform broken nature finance system

06 October 2025

A woman farmer in a field carries a small plant in each hand at shoulder height.

Article

Principles for inclusive nature action

Woman walking through a field wearing traditional dress.

How IIED’s SAGE tool is fostering equitable and inclusive governance of protected areas

Impact story 2 minute read

Rainforest on the banks of the River Pará.

Insight

Nature finance: some progress at COP30 with more needed in 2026

Nicola Sorsby and Ebony Holland
08 December 2025

Podcast

Locally-led nature restoration: critical for a sustainable future – Make Change Happen podcast episode 33

22 April 2025

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's biodiversity work

Conservation, communities and equity

A programme of work showing how IIED is building capacity to understand and implement equitable conservation and enhance community voice in conservation policymaking

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Biodiversity and development

A programme of work showing how IIED is working to ensure biodiversity conservation, climate change and economic development are tackled together by the institutions that drive policy, rules, plans, investment and action

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Ecosystem-based adaptation

A programme of work focused on people using biodiversity and ecosystem services to adapt to climate change and promote sustainable development

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Women champions of biodiversity

A series of blogs and interviews illustrating the role, influence and impact of women working to safeguard the world’s biodiversity

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Publications

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Strengthening agrobiodiversity conservation

Advancing locally led approaches for people, climate and nature

Analysis of laws and policies that support Indigenous biocultural territories in Peru

Catalysing agrobiodiversity: a call for differentiated and complementary approaches

Bioeconomy: a transformative step towards sustainability or threat to biodiversity and social justice?

Applying a human rights-based approach to human-wildlife conflict

From assessment to action: how SAGE enables local solutions for equitable governance in conservation

Low-tech, bottom-up, place-based approaches to addressing environmental degradation

How research influences government action for nature

Potential priority issues for REDAA in sub-Saharan Africa

466 entries

Various women holding sickles and working the land

IIED at CBD COP15

Article

Two men in a dinghy out on water; one holding an oar.

Protecting wildlife with local solutions: putting learning into practice

Insight, 10 November 2022

A shepherd and a herd of sheep in a mountain

COP27: vital but at-risk IPLC landscapes urgently need more climate finance

Insight, 08 November 2022

Where to find IIED and partners at COP27: event listing

Event on 06 November 2022

Man, wearing red and black and holding a stick, walks with cattle

Valuing a traditional lifestyle: how Maasai herders are being paid to protect nature and combat climate change

Insight, 19 October 2022

Countries most vulnerable to climate change able to borrow less than 15% of money needed to adapt before hitting debt distress

Press release, 17 October 2022

Young man wears a headlamp and carries a flashlight in the dark

Private insurance policies launched to protect elephants in Kenya and Sri Lanka

Press release, 06 October 2022

Head and shoulders photos of five people alongside the words 'podcast 19' and "Make Change Happen".

A spur to action – getting money to the local level for nature and climate: Make Change Happen podcast episode 19

Article, 21 September 2022

Three women bend over and direct their picks and shovels to the ground.

IIED at Climate Week NYC 2022

Event on 21 September 2022

A host of people carrying placards and banners, with a prominent banner that says: "Danger: delay kills you".

From Paris to pandemic: charting the changing landscape for sustainable development

Insight, 01 September 2022