Biodiversity

Exploring the links between biodiversity, conservation and local livelihoods

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New five-year strategy to reform broken nature finance system

06 October 2025

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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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Rainforest on the banks of the River Pará.

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

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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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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

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Agama Lizard, Uganda. Seven of Africa's biogeographic regions converge in Uganda, making it a country with a high level of biodiversity (Photo: Michael Sale, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Getting to know you: stronger relationships contribute to better biodiversity mainstreaming

Article, 21 March 2016

Site discussions to integrate biodiversity into mine planning and operations (Photo: SANBI)

Mining for common ground: putting biodiversity on South African mining companies' agendas

Article, 21 March 2016

Women opening the fruit of the marula tree to extract the kernel for making marula oil (Photo: CIFOR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Encouraging collaboration: drafting a new law to stop biopiracy in Namibia

Article, 21 March 2016

A hippo emerges from the Zambezi near the Mana Pools Wildlife Conservation Area in northern Zimbabwe (Photo: Terry Feuerborn, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Biodiversity stories: building understanding in the media leads to richer reporting

Article, 21 March 2016

Lilongwe's residents call it the "Garden City" because of its many green spaces (Photo: Gome Jenda )

Seeds of change: Lilongwe City Council recognises the value of urban nature

Article, 21 March 2016

Wildlife can be a key asset for rural communities in Africa, providing a foundation for economic development through tourism (Photo: Paolo, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Regional workshop: exploring community-based efforts to tackle illegal wildlife trade in West/Central Africa

News, 23 February 2016

Pre-emptive controlled burning in Belize is preventing severe uncontrolled wild fires during the driest months (Photo: Toledo Institute for Development and Environment)

Flaming parrots and palmetto palms

Insight, 08 February 2016

Sorting apricots in Tajikistan. The diverse and extreme climatic conditions of Central Asia helped farmers develop fruit varieties adaptable to drought and other environmental stresses (Photo: UNDP, Creative Commons via Flickr)

The Paris Agreement – a framework for local inclusion

Insight, 05 February 2016

Women harvest their rice crop in Meceburi forest reserve, near Nampula, Mozambique (Photo: Mike Goldwater)

Food demand and forests in sub-Saharan Africa

Active Project

Turtle hatchlings, targeted by the illegal wildlife trade, are pictured on a beach (Photo: Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association)

How can we engage communities to help reduce illegal wildlife trade?

Insight, 03 September 2015