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

A group of people outside huddle around diagrams and charts laid out on the floor

Assessing the social impacts, governance and equity of conservation: SAPA, GAPA or SAGE?

Article

An illustration with a speech bubble: "We're dealing with multiple intertwined crises" with scales and illustrations depicting climate change, COVID-19, rising inequalities and biodiversity loss

A green recovery from COVID-19? Not without climate, nature and development solutions

Insight, 26 November 2020

Nature landscape of a forest and a lake.

Author Q&A: A framework for assessing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation

Article, 23 November 2020

Development and Climate Days 2020

Event on 02 December 2020

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Debt swaps for climate and nature: innovation for resilience? Make Change Happen podcast episode 8

Article, 12 November 2020

How is COVID-19 affecting wild meat consumption in rural Cameroon?

Insight, 02 November 2020

Three women walk down the side of a road carrying branches on their heads

Thriving and just societies: integrating climate, nature and development in a COVID-19 green recovery

Event on 17 November 2020

A group of people gather around a pile of potatoes with mountains as a backdrop

Indigenous Peoples’ food systems hold the key to feeding humanity

Insight, 23 October 2020

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Choosing a sustainable way out of the pandemic’s economic chaos

Insight, 12 October 2020

Online learning series helps practitioners engage communities in tackling illegal wildlife trade

News, 12 October 2020