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#1317242021-11-16
"Recovering key species for ecosystem restoration" announced as theme of World Wildlife Day 2022
According to figures by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, over 8,400 species of wild fauna and flora are critically endangered, while close to 30,000 more are understood to be endangered or vulnerable. Based on these estimates, it is suggested t ...
Meeting
#524526th International Congress for Conservation Biology: Engaging Society in Conservation (ICCB 2013)
21 - 25 July 2013, Baltimore, United States of America
News Headlines
#1273352021-02-24
3 actions Congress can take now to build more resilient coasts
Earlier this year, NOAA released findings indicating that the rate of sea level rise has doubled over the last century and, even if global emissions reduction targets are met, sea level could increase 12 inches by 2100.
Meeting
#61458th Session of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-8 Plenary)
14 - 24 June 2021, Online, Bonn, Germany
News Headlines
#1320552021-12-06
A 10-point plan for the restoration revolution
Why the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has to be more than a catchphrase. It must be the catalyst for transformational change of our economy, of our food and energy systems, and of ourselves.
News Headlines
#1276922021-03-15
A Comeback for Beavers?
The word “conservation” is often associated with policy measures or improving a landscape. But a newer solution takes a step back—what if to restore a place, we instead leave it be?
News Headlines
#1290762021-06-04
A social network for global ecosystem restoration
ETH spin-off Restor aims to increase the success rate of ecosystem restoration and conservation projects by connecting people with better data and ecological transparency.
News Headlines
#1227672019-10-28
Across China: Dried-up lake in NW China's Dunhuang recovers
Water has reappeared in a lake that had been dried up for about 300 years in the city of Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, thanks to a local water conservancy project in recent years.
Notification
#27772018-06-11
African Biodiversity Summit and preparatory process
Reference: SCBD/SPS/AS/SBG/SK/LJ/87468 (2018-055)
To: CBD and SBSTTA National Focal Points of the African region
English
Meeting
#5834African Ministerial Summit on Biodiversity
13 November 2018, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt
News Headlines
#1291552021-06-08
Ambitious $104 million program targets land degradation in Africa and Central Asian countries
Launch of the FAO-led, Global Environment Facility-funded initiative paves the way for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The global launch of a $104 million initiative signals an ambitious effort by a range of partners to safeguard drylands in the context of climate change, fragile ecosystems, ...
News Headlines
#1330022022-02-08
Are Coral Reef Restoration Projects Working?
With at least half of the world's corals diminished in the last three decades, efforts are underway to restore these crucial ecosystems. Steps are currently underway to rescue coral reefs, but many suggest that these programs do not go far enough to mitigate the damage caused to coral reefs.
News Headlines
#1292562021-06-11
As a decade of ecosystem restoration kicks off, don't forget the people
With the start of the United Nations' Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which runs through 2030, a tremendous amount of money and effort will be put into re-growing forests, making over-exploited farmland productive, and reviving damaged marine environments.
Side Event
#2755COP 11
2012-10-16
Asian cold deserts: unique biodiversity and ecosystem services
Asia covers the largest area of cold desert in the world covering partly/fully ten countries viz., Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia and Tajikistan. This ecoregion harbors some unique biodiversity (e.g., snow leopard, Marco Polo sheep, yak and a large ...
Side Event
#2694COP 11
2012-10-11
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Safeguards of Standards and Certification Schemes
This will be a joint presentation by UNEP-WCMC and SCBD on the latest phase of their work analyzing the biodiversity and ecosystem service provisions of standards and certification schemes, addressing gaps and the best ways of creating convergence around common terminologies and approaches, and ...
News Headlines
#1204792019-03-25
Biodiversity loss in the oceans can be reversed through habitat restoration
Activities such as laying gas pipelines, trawling for fish, drilling for oil, and even burying internet cables in the deep sea, are destroying marine ecosystems. But studies have shown that reintroducing seaweed and corals to these habitats could ward off the worst effects – and recover marine life.
News Headlines
#1205042019-03-26
Biodiversity loss in the oceans can be reversed through habitat restoration
Activities such as laying gas pipelines, trawling for fish, drilling for oil, and even burying internet cables in the deep sea, are destroying marine ecosystems. But studies have shown that reintroducing seaweed and corals to these habitats could ward off the worst effects – and recover marine life.
Meeting
#6059News Headlines
#1334332022-02-22
Bringing back large mammals boosts restoration of entire ecosystems: Study
A new study that looks at global opportunities for the restoration, reintroduction and rewilding of large mammals across the world’s terrestrial ecoregions found that just 15% of the world’s land area supports intact large mammal assemblages.
Notification
#32982023-08-21
Action by
2023-09-30
Call for nominations for a workshop to develop a road map for supporting the implementation and monitoring of and capacity development for ecosystem restoration under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 22-24 November 2023 - Rome, Italy
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/LJ/91211 (2023-090)
To: CBD and SBSTTA national focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives
English
Notification
#25942017-02-24
Action by
2017-06-30
Call for project proposals under the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative
Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/CS/LJ/86256 (2017-019)
To: CBD National Focal Points and relevant agencies working on ecosystem restoration
English
Spanish
French
News Headlines
#1348922022-06-07
Can wonder plant spekboom really bring smiles back to sad South African towns?
Botanists are working on an ambitious project to restore 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of degraded land in South Africa that were previously covered by thickets of the indigenous succulent spekboom (Portulacaria afra).
Meeting
#5584Capacity-building workshop for Central and Eastern Europe on achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 11 and 12
14 - 17 June 2016, Minsk, Belarus
Meeting
#5403Capacity-building workshop for Central, South and East Asia on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
14 - 18 July 2014, Jeju, Republic of Korea
Notification
#21902014-04-24
Action by
2014-05-23
Capacity-building workshop for Central, South and East Asia on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Jeju, Republic of Korea – 14 to 18 July 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SK/LM/83300 (2014-060)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, Afghanistan, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; and relevant regional organizations engaged in conservation and restoration
English
Meeting
#5383Meeting
#5576Notification
#24422016-01-26
Action by
2016-02-08
Capacity-building workshop for Latin America on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Bogotá, Colombia – 4 to 8 April 2016
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CS/BT/85193 (2016-017)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
English
Meeting
#5412Capacity-building workshop for Mesoamerica on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
25 - 28 August 2014, San Jose, Costa Rica
Notification
#22212014-07-08
Action by
2014-07-30
Capacity-building workshop for Mesoamerica on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, 25-28 August 2014, and Inter-regional capacity-building workshop on REDD+ and Aichi Biodiversity Targets, 29-31 August 2014, San José, Costa Rica
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CS/LM/83689 (2014-091)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama
English
Spanish
Meeting
#5585Capacity-building workshop for Pacific on achieving Aichi Biodiversity Targets 11 and 12
11 - 13 July 2016, Nadi, Fiji
Meeting
#5340Capacity-building workshop for South America on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
24 - 28 March 2014, Linhares, Brazil
Notification
#21202013-12-16
Action by
2014-01-10
Capacity-building workshop for South America on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Linhares, Brazil, 24 to 28 March 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/DCo/LM/82937 (2013-117)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
English
Spanish
Meeting
#5382Capacity-building workshop for Southeast Asia on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
28 April - 2 May 2014, Jambi, Indonesia
Notification
#21602014-02-27
Action by
2014-03-17
Capacity-building workshop for Southeast Asia on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Jambi, Indonesia – 28 April to 2 May 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CS/LJ/83206 (2014-031)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Viet Nam; and relevant organizations engaged in conservation and restoration
English
Notification
#21692014-03-14
Action by
2014-04-01
Capacity-building workshop for Southern and Eastern Africa on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Livingstone, Zambia – 12 to 16 May 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SK/LJ/83301 (2014-039)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Angola, Botswana, Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe; and relevant regional organizations engaged in conservation and restoration
English
Meeting
#5532Capacity-building workshop for West Africa on ecosystem restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
5 - 9 October 2015, Accra, Ghana
Notification
#23492015-07-09
Action by
2015-07-31
Capacity-building workshop for West Africa on ecosystem restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Accra, Ghana – 5 to 9 October 2015
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/RH/LJ/84825 (2015-077)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
English
Meeting
#5341Notification
#21282013-12-17
Action by
2014-01-05
Capacity-building workshop for West Asia and North Africa on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Amman, Jordan – 1 to 5 February 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CS/LM/82966 (2013-125)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, and Yemen
English
Meeting
#5582Notification
#24652016-03-29
Action by
2016-04-22
Capacity-building workshop for selected subregions of Asia on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Bangkok, Thailand – 27 June to 1 July 2016
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CS/BT/85528 (2016-040)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Vietnam
English
Meeting
#5385Capacity-building workshop for the Caribbean on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
28 April - 2 May 2014, Belize City, Belize
Notification
#21552014-02-25
Action by
2014-03-21
Capacity-building workshop for the Caribbean on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Belize City, Belize - 28 April to 2 May 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/SK/LM/83207 (2014-027)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago; and relevant organizations engaged in conservation and restoration
English
Notification
#21842014-04-01
Action by
2014-04-25
Capacity-building workshop for the Europe region on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Isle of Vilm, Germany – 2 to 6 June 2014
Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/LM/83346 (2014-054)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
English
Meeting
#5607Notification
#25672016-11-23
Action by
2016-12-19
Capacity-building workshop for the Mediterranean on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Agadir, Morocco, 20-24 March 2017
Reference: SCBD/SPS/CG/SBG/CS/LJ/86018 (2016-141)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, European Union, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom (Gibraltar), and Yemen
English
Meeting
#5323Notification
#20822013-09-13
Action by
2013-10-01
Capacity-building workshop for the Pacific on ecosystem conservation and restoration to support achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Suva, Fiji, 25 to 29 November 2013
Reference: SCBD/SAM/SBG/lj/82556 (2013-080)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the following countries: Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu
English
Meeting
#5727Notification
#26432017-07-13
Action by
2017-08-15
Capacity-development workshop for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, 25 - 29 September 2017 - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/CS/VA/86448 (2017-068)
To: CBD National Focal Points from the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
English
News Headlines
#1298272021-08-09
Climate crisis: English moor transformed into ‘giant sponge’ to absorb CO2
A peatland restoration project near Manchester will help soak up carbon, boost biodiversity and prevent flooding. Its launch comes amid dire warnings about the climate crisis
News Headlines
#1317882021-11-18
Conifer thinning to make way for native species, Carabinieri Biodiversity Project begins
Re-naturalization of reforestation using alligator conifers for a guided nature reserve”Monte Vilino“It will be launched in the next few days, thanks to the cooperation of the municipal administration in Massa Dalb and exceptional funding from Ministry of Environmental Transformation to me Carab ...
News Headlines
#1225022019-10-03
Consultation key to overcoming the enormous challenges of restoring degraded land
The world faces huge and unprecedented biodiversity and climate change challenges. One way we can help address these challenges is through the restoration of degraded land.
News Headlines
#1284002021-05-05
Countdown to extinction, or destination restoration?
From transitioning energy systems to renewables to reimagining food systems to expanding the frontier of carbon capture technologies, the recipe to mitigate the effects of land degradation – which negatively impact the wellbeing of 40 percent of humanity – is constantly growing. But the crux of ...
News Headlines
#1327992022-01-31
Cultural, ecological and economic benefits of tribal bison restoration
A study published today in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution found that widespread restoration of bison to Tribal lands throughout the Northern Great Plains can help restore the prairie ecosystem while improving the long-running issue of food insecurity and food sovereignty for Native Nations, ...
News Headlines
#1273362021-02-24
Date palm: The secret ingredient for a bio-circular economy?
2021 marks the beginning of a new era for sustainability. It’s the year that the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) has begun. It’s the year where climate change returned to the agenda for America, with Joe Biden sworn in as President. And, with a degree of hopefulness, it’s the year ...
News Headlines
#1278852021-04-05
Decreasing Your Carbon Footprint Through Abandoned Farmland Restoration
Since the 1950s, large-farm abandonment has been occurring in many economically developed nations as well as some economically developing countries. Currently, there are an estimated 950 million to 1.1 billion acres of deserted farmland worldwide, according to Drawdown.
News Headlines
#1333832022-02-21
Digging into the finer details of retired cranberry bog restorations
Cranberry farming was once a prominent industry in southeastern Massachusetts, but now that the cranberry industry is shifting to other areas of the United States and Canada, many New England cranberry bogs are retiring, and efforts are underway to restore some of them as wetlands—a nature-based ...
Meeting Document
#1076582016-03-15
Document
Report of the Capacity-Building Workshop for West Africa on the Restoration of Forest and Other Ecosystems to Support Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets
Meeting Document
#841062013-07-17
Document
Contribution of Ecosystem Restoration to the Objectives of the CBD and a Healthy Planet for All People, Presentation by Eric Chivian M.D. Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment Harvard Medical School
News Headlines
#1294052021-06-21
Don’t Forget the People
With the start of the United Nations’ Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which runs through 2030, a tremendous amount of money and effort will be put into re-growing forests, making over-exploited farmland productive, and reviving damaged marine environments.
News Headlines
#1276142021-03-09
Eastern Oregon forest restoration efforts hampered by diameter limits on tree cutting
A quarter-century-old harvesting restriction intended to last one year has served as an obstacle to returning eastern Oregon national forests to the healthier, more fire-resilient conditions they embodied in the late 1800s, research by the Oregon State University College of Forestry shows.
News Headlines
#1353502022-07-15
Ecological restoration priorities must be informed by marginalized people
The United Nations has declared the 2020s as the decade of ecosystem restoration, a call for countries around the world to dedicate resources towards healing the earth. While the goal of ecosystem restoration is to reverse the degradation of the world's landscapes and waterways, the movement run ...
Notification
#31692022-06-13
Action by
2022-07-15
Ecosystem Restoration Massive Open Online Course, 19 September - 20 November 2022
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/LJ/90358 (2022-038)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA National Focal Points
English
Spanish
French
Recommendation
SBSTTA-18#13336
Recommendation XVIII/11
Ecosystem conservation and restoration
News Headlines
#1320582021-12-06
Ecosystem restoration
Pakistan’s green initiatives like ‘Clean and Green Pakistan’, ‘Ten Billion Tree Tsunami’, ‘Protected Areas Initiative’ and ‘Recharge Pakistan’ have received global recognition. Despite all these ambitious efforts and global recognition, there remains a huge gap in these conservation initiatives, ...
News Headlines
#1276102021-03-09
Ecosystem restoration is a pressing issue in fragmented rainforest
In light of the United Nations (UN) declaration that 2021-2030 is the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a group of scientists is voicing concerns about restoration in heavily fragmented landscapes under a hotter and drier future scenario.
News Headlines
#1290902021-06-04
Ecosystem restoration is vital for climate, biodiversity
Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade – an area about the size of China. Countries also need to add similar commitments for oceans, according ...
News Headlines
#1291212021-06-07
Ecosystem restoration: Lagos unveils a 4 yr redevelopment plan of suburbs
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Bababjide Sanwo-Olu, has disclosed plans to embark on a four year redevelopment plan with massive tree planting, along Lagos-Epe and Badagry Expressway, aimed at ensuring resilient and sustainable environment in the state.
News Headlines
#1333722022-02-21
Emirati official joins advisory board of UN's ecosystem restoration project
A leading Emirati environmentalist has joined the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration project. Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, secretary general of the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, said she was honoured to be selected.
Side Event
#2777COP 11
2012-10-11
Endangered wetlands: comparative experiences on participatory strategic management to tackle socio-environmental conflicts.
This side event seeks to exchange valuable experiences regarding threatened wetlands and the use of environmental strategic tools (territorial planning, environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment, public participation and litigation) as a means of preventing or putting a ...
News Headlines
#1281142021-04-21
Ethiopia Preparing for Third Round Massive Afforestation Campaign
Two years ago Ethiopia has announced a vision of planting some 10 million indigenous trees in three years. This year the country has been preparing to hit the target set of planting some six billion trees.
News Headlines
#1239782020-01-28
Fallen trees sought to help restore salmon streams
A Vancouver Island non-profit society is looking for more than 1,000 pieces of wood and fallen trees in its project to restore salmon habitat in rivers around the island. Megan Francis, operations manager with Central Westcoast Forest Society, says natural timber that falls into rivers is an ex ...
News Headlines
#1223942019-09-26
Farming plays key role in UN climate push on land restoration
With the United Nations Climate Summit underway this week, it has been the focal point of mass protests and media coverage, but another global climate initiative is revving up that focuses on large-scale land restoration as a way to counter the advent and impact of climate change.
News Headlines
#1267482021-01-29
Feature: Restore Africa’s degraded land – Climate Adaptation Summit
“Land restoration has a positive impact on the economy, on business, on biodiversity and is a carbon sink, so you have multiple opportunities that can be achieved through land restoration,” Ibrahaim Thiaw told the Climate Adaptation Summit this week.
News Headlines
#1278612021-04-01
Five facts you didn’t know about bamboo forests
June marks the start of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: an initiative led by the UN Environment Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization, which aims to drive attention towards the urgent need to value and protect our ecosystems.
News Headlines
#1232272019-12-03
Food, water, economic security improved through blueprint for ecological restoration standards
A blueprint to guide effective ecological restoration that can provide “profound ecosystem services benefits,” including better food and water security, improved health and cleaner air quality while delivering social and environmental equity and economic benefits has just been released.
News Headlines
#1200052019-02-19
For a Warming World, A New Strategy for Protecting Watersheds
Long before an aspen tree fell on a power line in New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains in June 2011, triggering the biggest wildfire in the state’s history, fire managers knew that New Mexico’s forests were vulnerable. Climate change-induced drought and higher temperatures had dried out the trees and soil.
News Headlines
#1204952019-03-25
Forest Restoration in Riau Going Strong
Forests play a bigger part in our lives than we realize. The water we drink, the paper we use, the medicine we take, the houses we build are all derived from a rich ecosystem, along with countless other aspects of our daily lives, and yet we seldom connect all these things with our forests.
News Headlines
#1227992019-10-30
From Indigenous apps to arts festivals, the many ways Africa is restoring itself
Ecosystem restoration, as defined by U.N. Environment, is “a process of reversing the degradation of ecosystems, such as landscapes, lakes and oceans to regain their ecological functionality.”
News Headlines
#1290412021-06-02
Hosting World Environment Day Reflects Global Recognition Of Pakistan's Leading Role In Eco-system Restoration
Pakistan has been emerged as a global leader by providing nature based solutions to all key environmental challenges of ecosystem degradation and climate changes by taking record initiatives of planting 1.528 billion plants and expanding protected areas coverage during the last eight and half ye ...
News Headlines
#1281172021-04-21
How to approach the great mission of forest landscape restoration – with evidence
Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), defined as a process that aims to regain ecological functionality and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes, has been promoted as a way to tackle many of the key challenges we face, including land degradation, climate change, biodiversit ...
News Headlines
#1289802021-06-01
In African drylands, farmers are coaxing former forests back into life
In the Dodoma region of Tanzania, an old farmer named Mr. Augustino had lived long enough to see the hills near his home go from being covered with trees to almost entirely barren. It had once rained more regularly, with water flowing in the rivers all year round. But over time, the rainfall les ...
News Headlines
#1353092022-07-12
In restoring polluted rivers, Indonesia looks at restocking endemic fish
Indonesia — A muddy flood polluting a river on the Indonesian island of Java earlier this year depleted its fish stock, raising calls for restoration and restocking efforts in the body of water that empties out into the Indian Ocean.
Meeting
#5647Notification
#26132017-05-01
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Expert review of the second order drafts of the IPBES thematic assessment on land degradation and restoration and of the four regional assessments on biodiversity and ecosystem services
Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/RH/KM/85598 (2017-038)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points and relevant organizations
English
Meeting
#5649International Congress for Conservation Biology: "Insights for Sustaining Life on Earth"
23 - 27 July 2017, Cartagena, Colombia
News Headlines
#1270652021-02-15
International Day of Forests 2021: Reafforestation is the Key to Recovery & Well-being
As we all know that forest covers one third of the Earth's land mass, performing crucial functions around the world. Around 1.6 billion people - including more than 2,000 indigenous cultures - depend on forests. The organisms living in forests are interdependent on each other. Plants make their ...
Notification
#32722023-06-14
Action by
2023-07-10
International Forum facilitated by the Forest Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (FERI): Workshop on ecosystem restoration-related planning and capacity-building needs for the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, 13 July 2023, virtual (10:00 a.m. EDT)
Reference: SCBD/SSSF/JL/SK/JA/LJ/91100 (2023-064)
To: CBD national focal points and SBSTTA focal points, indigenous peoples and local communities, and relevant global and regional organizations and initiatives, cc: Cartagena Protocol focal points, ABS focal points
English
Meeting
#6383Notification
#26602017-09-05
Action by
2017-09-30
Invitation to consultation process for the “Caring for Coasts” Initiative
Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/CSt/NG/86788 (2017-085)
To: CBD National Focal Points
English
Side Event
#2724COP 11
2012-10-15
Issues at the intersection of poverty and critical ecosystems
The event includes presentations by Royal Bank of Scotland and some of their NGO partners of their work done in the space of providing sustainable livelihoods to communities that are located in the buffer zones or corridors of our wildlife protected areas and so, dependent on their resources. Th ...
News Headlines
#1342552022-05-04
Joint statement: RePowerEurope – Biodiversity restoration must be integral to Europe’s energy transition
The deployment of renewable energy and the restoration of nature must be done in unison for a climate neutral and nature-positive Europe.
News Headlines
#1291042021-06-07
Knowledge-based proactive governance must for ecosystems restoration
Participants of a regional webinar on Sunday urged reforms in governance and integrated regional approaches towards identifying the challenges and threats confronting the ecosystems of the region from mountains to the coastal areas and deserts.
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#1344722022-05-16
Land Restoration a Must to Mitigate Global Desertification and Drought
Two reports out this spring from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) carry stark warnings not just for the future of business on Earth, but for life itself. According to Global Land Outlook 2, released in April, $44 trillion (half the global GDP) is at risk from the e ...
Meeting
#5293Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Consultation Meeting on IPBES (Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
11 - 13 July 2013, Soa Paolo, Brazil
Side Event
#2709COP 11
2012-10-18
Launch of UNDP’s Biodiversity and Ecosystems Global Framework 2012-2020, “The Future We Want: Biodiversity and Ecosystems—Driving Sustainable Development
Following global consultations, UNDP is launching its new framework to guide the agency’s technical support and policy advice to national governments on ecosystems and biodiversity over the period 2012 to 2020. The new framework will be launched at this event during the High-Level Segment by UN ...
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#1192822019-01-08
Lessons from China on large-scale landscape restoration
In the 1980s, the hilly Qianyanzhou region in Jiangxi Province, southern China, faced severe soil erosion due to deforestation and unsustainable farming practices. Fertile red soil was being washed away causing crop yields to tumble.
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#1284232021-05-05
Lessons from the rush to refore
When an international team of scientists announced in 2019 the potential of restoring forests to slow climate change, the world grabbed shovels. Tree-planting initiatives sprang up from Ethiopia to Nepal, spurred by corporations eager to sponsor them.