Biodiversity

Mainstreaming biodiversity and development: Guidance from African experience 2012-17

Do you want to highlight how biodiversity contributes to economic and social development, and ensure its potential is realised? Do you want to ensure biodiversity opportunities and risks are no longer ignored by development policy, plans and budgets? Or perhaps you want to mainstream development concerns into biodiversity policy and planning?

Publication Date: 
01/07/2017
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Tags:
Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP), Africa, Development
Environment

Framework for integrated ecosystem management in the Hindu Kush Himalaya

This framework document has been prepared by the team at ICIMOD working on various aspects of ecosystem management in collaboration with the United Nations Environment – World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP–WCMC), with technical inputs from eminent ecologists, gender and governance specialists, sociologists and economists from the region.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2017
Yi Shaoliang, Gopal Singh Rawat, Wu Ning, & et al
ICIMOD
Tags:
Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity Conservation, Himalaya, South Asia, India, Traditional Knowledge
Biodiversity

Ethiopia’s first botanic garden aims to preserve country’s flora heritage

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – When Ethiopia’s first botanic garden was established six years ago, few Ethiopians knew of country’s flora heritage.

Publication Date: 
13/06/2017
Mongabay
Tags:
Biodiversity, Ethiopia, Flora, Ecotourism, Biodiversity Conservation, Africa
Environment

Efforts to restore the ecology of Thar desert

As I enter the Rao Jodha Desert Rock Park in Jodhpur through a 17th century sandstone archway, I am transported into a magical place in the desert.

Publication Date: 
13/06/2017
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation, Environmentalists, Environmental Security, Environment
Climate Change

India committed to Paris agreement, says Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan

While addressing a press conference, Vardhan said, “India is the most honest in terms of commitment for respected issues related to the environment, fight against pollution, preservation of biodive

Publication Date: 
05/06/2017
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, United States Of America (US), Carbon Dioxide
Biodiversity

Need to halt loss of biodiversity: Harsh Vardhan

Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan today emphasised that there was a need to halt the loss of biodiversity and said the stress imposed by tourism activities may aggravate its depletion.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2017
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Biodiversity, Ecology, Tourism, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Biodiversity Conservation
Biodiversity

Odisha Biodiversity Board study to assess biodiversity of sanctuaries

The Odisha Biodiversity Board (OBB) has decided to conduct biodiversity study of various sanctuaries in the state.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2017
Times Of India (Bhubaneswar)
Tags:
Orissa (Odisha), Sanctuaries, Ecotourism, State Biodiversity Board (SBB), Biodiversity Conservation, Biodiversity
Environment

SA conservationist wins prestigious international award

Johannesburg – HRH The Princess Royal, Princess Anne on Thursday presented a Whitley Award, a prestigious international nature conservation prize worth £35 000 (about R612 000) in project funding,

Publication Date: 
19/05/2017
IOL (South Africa)
Tags:
Environment, Biodiversity Conservation, Awards, South Africa, Grasslands, Water Resources, Africa
Biodiversity

Biodiversity conservation need of hour: Addl CS

Himachal boasts of huge biological resources, which need to be conserved by everyone.

Publication Date: 
12/05/2017
Tribune (New Delhi)
Tags:
Himachal Pradesh, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Conservation, WWF, Biodiversity Act 2002, Medicinal Plants
Forests

Reconciling forest conservation with food production in sub-Saharan Africa: case studies from Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania

Forest cover in sub-Saharan Africa declined by nearly 10 per cent between 2000 and 2010. Of this loss, 75 per cent was caused by the conversion of forest to agriculture, largely for food production to serve rapidly growing domestic food demand.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2017
Phil Franks, Xiaoting Hou-Jones, Daniel Fikreyesus, & et al
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Tags:
Forest Conservation, Food Security, Agriculture, Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Forests, Forest Policy, Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystems

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