The linkages between biodiversity and human health presents a broad range of opportunities for jointly protecting health and biodiversity, and for advancing human well-being

Over the last decade, the multiplicity and complexity of linkages between biodiversity and health have been increasingly recognized. However, we can improve our understanding of the complex linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem services and health and promote co-benefits through more integrated policies and implementation activities by strengthening collaboration with the health sector and mainstreaming biodiversity and health linkages into national strategies policies, programmes, accounts and reporting instruments.

Towards a biodiversity-inclusive One Health transition to achieve a vision of living in harmony with nature that also advances health and well-being

The “One Health” approach, among other holistic approaches, such as Ecohealth or Planetary health, provides an opportunity to integrate the full range of biodiversity-health linkages. The importance of the One Health approach and other holistic approaches was recognized in the 5th edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-5), which refers to a “biodiversity-inclusive One Health transition”, and more recently in the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which has “Biodiversity and Health” as one of the considerations for its implementation, acknowledging the interlinkages between biodiversity and health and the three objectives of the Convention, and highlighting that the Framework is to be implemented with consideration of the One Health approach, among other holistic approaches.