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Women cross a river
Time to move unseen foresters into the limelight
… Biodiversity …
Insight, 14 July 2020
Lions on the move in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. While populations of lions have increased by 12% in four countries, including Botswana, studies show a 43% overall decline from 1993-2014 (Photo: Barrett, Creative Commons, via Flickr)
To save Africa's wildlife, conservation needs a radical shake-up
… and urbanisation.  Wildlife is valuable both to maintaining ecosystems and economically. Lions and other predators keep herbivore … elephant's gut to germinate and to be dispersed.  Forests and other ecosystems maintained by wildlife are crucial to absorbing carbon, … Roe  ([email protected]) is principal researcher and team leader (biodiversity), and James Mayers ([email protected]) is director of …
Insight, 03 March 2018
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FEBA Discussion Paper. Shared goals – joined-up approaches? Why action under the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 needs to come together at the landscape level
… The services that ecosystems provide to people, for example water regulation, are extremely important for human wellbeing, and the resilience of ecosystems to pressures from climate change or direct human action is … wider recognition. Those who wish to support the management of ecosystems to achieve multiple benefits should therefore not only invest …
Publication, 01 December 2016
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Addressing the impact of large-scale oil palm plantations on orangutan conservation in Borneo: A spatial, legal and political economy analysis
… the industry has also caused widespread deforestation of tropical ecosystems renowned for their extraordinary biodiversity, as well as numerous conflicts with indigenous peoples and … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 July 2017
Agricultural biodiversity in a Peruvian market. Photo: Bioversity International/A. Camacho
Building resilient food systems
… consider the interactions between the different components of agro-ecosystems. We aim to support local food systems by enhancing local … — including land and territories, water, seeds and livestock breeds, biodiversity-rich landscapes and ecosystem services. We do this by … and Sustainability . Sustaining local food systems, agricultural biodiversity and livelihoods This project analysed how and under what …
Project, 14 August 2013
Populations of bees, butterflies and other pollinators are declining, posing potential risks to important world food crops (Photo: Brian McGill)
The economics of mass extinction
… decline will continue.  Today marks the International Day for Biodiversity, but there is little cause for celebration. Current … not only of species like rhinos and tigers, but of entire ecosystems, as pollinating insects die off, soil microorganisms vanish, … of losing other indispensable natural capitals, like the insects and ecosystems which support global food production, without which organised …
Insight, 29 May 2018
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Rethinking conservation through the lens of food sovereignty (Workshop report, World Conservation Congress, Oct. 2008)
… and provisioning. Many initiatives to conserve natural resources and biodiversity rich ecosystems in which food systems are embedded increasingly rely on or … market based approaches, e.g., payments for ecosystem services; land, biodiversity and water markets; and partnerships between public and … Biodiversity …
Publication, 01 October 2008
Headshots of four people over a treelined housing area
Loss and damage – recognising the costs of climate change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 10
Article, 02 March 2021
Protesters with a banner
IIED's best of 2019: blogs
… demand urgent and serious action. 2 Development organisations beware! Biodiversity loss is not just an environmental issue April:   Dilys Roe … organisations need to get involved in efforts to tackle dangerous biodiversity decline. 2020 will be an important year: parties to the UN … work by protecting and restoring nature, and supporting healthy ecosystems that can help mitigate and adapt to climate change. During …
Article, 27 December 2019
Screengrab of the homepage of the People Not Poaching website
New “People not poaching” platform supports communities as the first line of defence against IWT
… equitable and sustainable use of wild species and their associated ecosystems. TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network, is a leading … globally on trade in wild animals and plants in the context of both biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The platform was … Biodiversity …
News, 11 October 2018