Biodiversity

Exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods

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Biodiversity and conservation

UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Protected areas

Indigenous Peoples

Biocultural heritage

Two women standing in a forest.

Sisters are doing it for themselves in biodiverse Belize

Duncan J Macqueen
18 March 2024

Man with cattle.

CBA18 agenda

03 April 2024

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Interview: Why the 18th community-based adaptation event is not to be missed!

02 April 2024

Man walking through a pineapple field.

Addressing nature loss and damage due to climate and consumption

January 2024 to June 2024

Two people standing putting on beekeeping suits, stand next to a tree.

Nature nurture: upscaling smallholder resilience for agrobiodiverse supply chains

December 2023 - November 2026

Sign with animal shapes reads "Beware wildlife crossing"

South-South capacity building for human-elephant conflict management

April 2023 – March 2025

Related collections

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

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

Ecosystem-based adaptation

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

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

Publications

View more Biodiversity publications

22446g.pdf

The Huaran Declaration

22421iied.pdf

Who pays the price for the loss and damage of nature?

22221iied.pdf

Applying the concept of ‘loss and damage’ to biodiversity loss

22201iied.pdf

Biocredit catalogue: a collection of biocredit developers and schemes

21626iied.pdf

Agrobiodiversity — the way to save earth’s skin

21596iied.pdf

Equitable governance underpins effective conservation

21586iied.pdf

Insurance to promote human-wildlife coexistence

21461iied.pdf

Manual for SAGE facilitators

21381iied.pdf

Mainstreaming biodiversity in development cooperation

21371iied.pdf

Redesigning debt swaps for a more sustainable future

Mountain Gorilla in Bwindi National Park, Uganda

PCLG: a history of the learning group

Article

Three elephants crossing a dirt road

Pilot scheme for human-wildlife conflict insurance in Kenya welcomed

News, 10 May 2023

CBA13 Talanoa: discussing the issues (Photo: IIED)

CBA17 agenda

Article

Two people in a rice field

Shaping adaptation: here’s how the CBA conferences are making an impact

Insight, 06 April 2023

A city street filled with lots of traffic next to tall buildings.

Low-income countries using over 10% of budgets to service debts

Press release, 03 April 2023

Four man stand aroun a table with a caiman on it. Two men hold its head and tail and another one hold a measure tape over the animal

Assessing the sustainability of wild species use

Active Project

People sitting under a straw tent next to rice fields

CBA17: back in person, ready to harness energy to drive forward the locally led adaptation agenda

Insight, 15 March 2023

Landscape with lowe bushes, flowers and a hrose with hills in the background

Ecosystem-based adaptation: three ways evidence can influence policymakers

Insight, 14 March 2023

Two people walk in a dried field of rice

UK International Development Select Committee publishes report on debt

Press release, 10 March 2023

Field with mountains in the background

G20 leaders urged to replicate Cabo Verde debt restructure for other countries

Press release, 08 March 2023