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Biodiversity and conservation

Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about understanding and implementing equitable conservation and enhancing community voices in conservation policymaking.

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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

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

UN biodiversity conference (COP16)

A series of pages related to IIED's activities around the 16th Convention on Biological Diversity conference (COP16)

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Two community members checking a tree in wetlands.

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

Insight, 07 March 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

Graphic card of an image of houses on water in Brazil with text and headshots of Lindlyn Moma, Simon Cullen, Rose Mosi, Nicola Sorsby and Laura Kelly on top.

Taking stock – opportunities for action in 2025: Make Change Happen podcast episode 29

Article, 12 December 2024

Women racing while carrying baskets full of sweet potatoes on their backs.

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

Insight, 05 December 2024

A person from the Indigenous community Callería embroiders art in the traditional way.

New guidance on human rights and equity in conservation launched at COP16

News, 29 October 2024

The Finance and Biodiversity pavilion at COP16 in Cali, Colombia.

Finance for nature and climate: shared learning on common challenges

Insight, 28 October 2024

Person from Indigenous community in Peru managing a forest.

Advancing rights and equity in area-based conservation

Event on 31 January 2024

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Loss and damage of nature and biodiversity: a tale of consumption, colonialism and communities

Publication, 17 October 2024

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Road map for advancing rights and equity in conservation

Publication, 11 October 2024

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How ambitious are nature assessment tools for the private sector? A preliminary review for business, investors and tool developers

Publication, 25 October 2024

Women community leaders maintaining the local nursery in Colombia

IIED at CBD COP16

Event on 25 February 2025

A woman stands behind a market stall of fresh vegetables, smiling proudly.

Investing in biodiverse agriculture in Ecuador’s highlands: UNORCAC and the Santa Anita cooperative

Article, 31 May 2024

A calf in a hut, a haystack, and terraced ground.

AgroBiodiversity Conservation: the ABC of climate resilience

Insight, 08 May 2024

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Business unusual: how business and investment pioneers are transforming forest and food supply chains

Publication, 23 April 2024

A multi-tiered agroforestry landscape.

How smallholder farmers are scaling up local ecosystem-based climate adaptation solutions

Insight, 11 April 2024

A man standing next to a group of women.

Grant-making for locally-led action: views from the national champions

Article, 20 March 2024

Two women standing in a forest.

Sisters are doing it for themselves in biodiverse Belize

Insight, 18 March 2024

People planting mushrooms.

Redesigning grant making for locally-led conservation

Insight, 26 February 2024

A few pastoralists oversee land with a hut in the background.

International workshop on advancing rights and equity in the implementation of Target 3+

News, 30 January 2024

A group of individuals sitting in chairs, engaged in a discussion.

Strong governance makes smallholder farmer organisations vital partners

Insight, 10 January 2024

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Biocredit catalogue: a collection of biocredit developers and schemes

Publication, 01 December 2023

Woman, in a field, throws potatos into a sack

COP15 should protect mountain landscapes, and the Indigenous Peoples and local communities governing them

Press release, 23 November 2023

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The unsung giants of climate and nature investment: insights from an international survey of local climate and nature action by smallholder forest and farm producers

Publication, 14 November 2023

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