BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#4): Linkage between biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease outbreak – The case of non-vector-borne infectious disease and intervention measures

Published on: 19 November 2020

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, whilst the outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that have jumped from a non-human animal to humans, are increasing. In the current...

BES-Net Op-Ed Series on COVID-19 (#3): Linkage between biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease outbreak – The case of vector-borne infectious diseases

Published on: 16 November 2020

Biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, whilst the outbreaks of zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that have jumped from a non-human animal to humans, are increasing. In the current...

Pursuing pollinator-friendly pathways during COVID-19: experiences from BES-Net’s Regional Trialogues

Published on: 12 November 2020

The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Network (BES-Net) is collaborating with Promote Pollinators to host a webinar that draws lessons on pollination from BES-Net’s Regional Trialogues. The virtual event will be...

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...