Costa Rica is advancing investment in biodiversity through a blended finance program, combining concessional and catalytic capital from public and philanthropic sources to stimulate private sector ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Environmental discourse and momentum seem to be weakening lately, as urgent geopolitical and economic priorities push concrete action to the ...

More than a million species face potential demise in what might be the biggest extinction event since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Yet efforts to enlist private capital in the fight to protect ...

Protecting biodiversity is not only about saving nature for its own sake; it is fundamentally about safeguarding human rights ...

MONTREAL— A global agreement was reached today to protect 30% of terrestrial, freshwater and marine areas by 2030. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or ...

UN experts welcomed on Thursday the ratification of the Agreement on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), first adopted in June 2023. This ratification is a significant advance ...

In the U.S., you could have blinked and missed a momentous announcement that impacts our ability to safeguard and improve our planet. I noticed that news coverage of the COP15 on biodiversity in ...

The successful de-extinction of dire wolves represents far more than a single species restoration—it marks the beginning of a new era in conservation biology where genetic technologies can address the ...

Goal 13: Climate Action Goal 14: Oceans Goal 15: Biodiversity, forests, desertification Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Goal 17: Partnerships By 2030: Protect 30% of Earth’s lands, ...

A new study published in Animal Conservation finds that most predicted biodiversity hotspots in Borneo and Sumatra fall outside formally protected areas, with only 9.2% and 18.2% of the modeled ...