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Biodiversity and conservation

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New five-year strategy to reform broken nature finance system

06 October 2025

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Article

Principles for inclusive nature action

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

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Insight

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

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

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

Network of Agrobiodiversity Zones and Biocultural Heritage Territories of Peru: Huaran Declaration

Challenging coloniality and racial injustice in finance for nature

Establishing a biocultural heritage territory in Rabai

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Person squatting town in a field, looking at the soil.

More GEF nature finance must reach Indigenous Peoples and local communities

Insight, 19 May 2025

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

Article, 22 April 2025

A group of Indigenous farmers, wearing brightly coloured clothes, smile as they lean on a wooden rail and gather around a large rock, in front of a scenic landscape of mountains under a blue sky.

Weaving resilience: biocultural territories and agrobiodiversity zones in the Southern Andes

Active Project

Aerial view of savannah and morichal forest in San Martin de los Llanos, Meta department, Colombia

Breaking the debt burden: how to unlock finance for climate and nature

Event on 09 April 2025

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Compromises, challenges and more unfinished business at COP16’s reconvened biodiversity talks

Insight, 07 March 2025

COP16 in Rome agrees way forward on biodiversity

Press release, 28 February 2025

Farmer squatting down and planting in Indonesia

Inspiring locally-led nature restoration through REDAA

Impact story, 06 February 2025

Farmer walking through land planted with cocoa.

New biodiversity reports ‘a wake-up call’ for action

Press release, 18 December 2024

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Faith in ecology: how one group of Indigenous people in the Philippines are advancing agrobiodiversity

Insight, 05 December 2024

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A missed opportunity: why COP29’s broken promises will leave billions behind

Insight, 28 November 2024