Facilitating Indigenous and Local Knowledge Exchange to Promote Nature-based Sustainable Development in the Face of COVID-19

Published on: 5 November 2020

Country: Côte d’Ivoire

The recently released special report on biodiversity and pandemic by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reaffirmed that the risk of pandemics, such as COVID-19, is...

BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#2): Ecosystem Services, Gender and COVID-19

Published on: 21 August 2020

This BES-Net Op-Ed series #2 provides insight on how the emergence of zoonotic diseases may impact on existing gender inequalities in biodiversity and ecosystem services access and use. It has...

Conservation communities around the world need our help to prevent wildlife loss

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Country: Philippines

The world’s national parks have suffered tremendously from the loss of income due to COVID-19. Iconic parks like the Yellowstone, Serengeti, Kruger or the Great Barrier Reef are either fully,...

Consultation on draft documentation for the third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation

Published on: 11 August 2020

The third meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation, under agenda item 3, is expected to review progress in the implementation of the Convention and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity...

Biodiversity, IPBES and the Caribbean SIDS – The Role of Legislators

Published on: 10 August 2020

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), through the CPA Small Branches network and in partnership with UNESCO hosted a webinar about: The Role of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Legislators and...

Four More Countries Complete First Step of National Ecosystems Assessments

Published on: 27 July 2020

Country: Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Grenada

Human life depends on the health of our ecosystems and the services they provide, from supplying food and water, to regulating diseases and the climate. Threats to the biodiversity that...

BES-Net Participation in the Promote Pollinators Members Conference Call

Published on: 17 July 2020

A virtual meeting for the members of the Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators (COW), also known as Promote Pollinators, was held on 14 July 2020. The COW meeting was...

BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#1): SARS-CoV-2 and the three steps necessary to prevent the next pandemic

Published on: 9 July 2020

“The inevitable, but unpredictable, appearance of new infectious diseases has been recognized for millennia, well before the discovery of causative infectious agents. Today, however, despite extraordinary advances in development of...

Virtual pro-pollinator effort in Trinidad and Tobago

Published on: 18 June 2020

Country: Trinidad and Tobago

In the face of the COVID-19 crisis and a restriction on social gatherings in Trinidad and Tobago, the Environmental Policy and Planning Division within the Ministry of Planning and Development...

Regional Trialogue participants fully “Bee Engaged” on #WorldBeeDay

Published on: 22 May 2020

Country: Nigeria

Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities. To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and...