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The next frontier of ecosystem restoration: the deep sea

The deep seas are truly Earth’s last frontier, faraway worlds of alien beauty of which only an infinitesimal fraction have been explored—and it’s time to start thinking about how to restore them.

The heart of a bio-circular economy: Date palm

We are now in a new age for sustainability. This year marks a shift in how we view sustainability and our individual actions to becoming more sustainable have been welcomed with open arms. It’s the year that the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) has finally begun, with high profile ...

The future of American conservation lies in restoration, not just protection

This month, the Biden administration launched the America the Beautiful Challenge, a $1-billion program that gathers funds from various sources to support conservation and restoration projects.

The divers rescuing a drowning island

Vaan Island in India’s Gulf of Mannar has been rapidly disappearing into the Laccadive Sea. But a team of marine biologists is working to save it.

The creative way to pay for wildlife recovery

Back in the 1980s, the Dutch were having problems with their famous “dikes and dams” approach to delta management. The landscape was boring; waterways were lifeless; people faced ever-more-regular and costly summer floods.

The Real Cost of Planting Trees

In Senegal’s Siné-Saloum and Casamance deltas, green seedlings poke through the water’s surface, standing on end like string beans reaching to the sky. There, in spindly clusters and lines, is the next generation of mangroves: six native species selected, seed collected from mature groves, then ...

The Mexican Alliance for Biodiversity and Business, with the aim of promoting the protection, conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems, was launched 17 October 2016 in Mexico City.

Tech stars tackle landscape restoration in the Aral Sea in innovative competition

For the week of 5–9 April, entrepreneurs from around the world gathered on Zoom to go head-to-head with proposals on how to fix one of the world’s largest environmental disasters. At stake: the fast-disappearing Aral Sea, the livelihoods and public health of millions of people, and a USD 5,000 p ...

Sustainable soil movement grows at COP15 on land desertification and drought

Soil health is crucial for tackling climate change, environmental challenges, building resilience, improving food security and meeting U.N. Sustainable Development Goals on water, human and economic health, yet each year becomes further degraded.

Subregional exchange for the Caribbean on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems

Subregional exchange for the Caribbean on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems

9 March 2020 – Representatives from 12 Caribbean countries (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago) will gather 9-13 March in Castries, Saint Lucia for a worksho ...

Subregional Exchange for the Pacific on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems

28 - 31 May 2019, Nadi, Fiji

Subregional Exchange for the Caribbean on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems, Castries, Saint Lucia - 9 to 13 March 2020

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/SBG/LJ/88547 (2020-005)
To: CBD National Focal Points from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

Subregional Exchange for the Caribbean on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems

9 - 13 March 2020, Castries, Saint Lucia

Sub-regional exchange for the Pacific on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems, Nadi, Fiji – 28 to 31 May 2019

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/SBG/LJ/88018 (2019-034)
To: CBD National Focal Points of Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu

Statement by Ms. Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the African Ministerial Summit on Biodiversity: “Land and ecosystem degradation and restoration: Priorities for increased investments in biodiversity and resilience in Africa”; Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, 13 November 2018

Statement by Ms. Cristiana Pașca Palmer, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the African Ministerial Summit on Biodiversity: “Land and ecosystem degradation and restoration: Priorities for increased investments in biodiversity and resilience in Africa”; Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt, 13 November 2018

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for the Pacific on Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration to Support Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Pacific Sub-Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, Suva, Fiji, 25 November 2013

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the 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 February 2014

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the 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 February 2014

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for Subregions of Asia on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems to Support the Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 June - 1 July 2016

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for Subregions of Asia on the Restoration of Forests and Other Ecosystems to Support the Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 June - 1 July 2016

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for Southeast Asia on Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration to Support Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Jambi, Indonesia, 28 April 2014

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for Southeast Asia on Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration to Support Achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Jambi, Indonesia, 28 April 2014

Statement by Mr. Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary on the occasion of the Capacity-Building Workshop for the Pacific on Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration and the Pacific Sub-Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on the Nagoya Protocol, Suva, Fiji, 25 November 2013

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Bonn Challenge 2.0: Implementing Restoration Partnerships High Level Roundtable, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany, 20 March 2015

Statement by Mr. Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the Bonn Challenge 2.0: Implementing Restoration Partnerships High Level Roundtable, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany, 20 March 2015

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day, 14 October 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day, 14 October 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day, 13 May 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Migratory Bird Day, 13 May 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Mountain Day, 11 December 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the International Mountain Day, 11 December 2023

Social benefits of ecosystem services enhanced by restoration/rehabilitation of degraded landscapes–Sharing experiences of technological and social approaches (tentative).

This session presents key aspect concerning how to effectively implement ecosystem restoration/rehabilitation in technological and social approaches at local level. Excessive exploitation of agricultural, forest and aquatic products, and expanding abandoned cultivated land, as well as natural di ...

Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Carpathian Convention (COP6)

14 - 16 September 2020, Rzeszow, Poland

Shaping a pan-African forest-landscape restoration exchange

Two weeks after Malagasy Forest Landscape Restoration experts came to Yaoundé, their Cameroonian counterparts visited Madagascar to intensify their South-South exchange on Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Africa.

Shades of REDD+: Bridging the National vs Project Divide

We must tackle tropical deforestation if we’re to meet international climate and biodiversity goals, and to do so we must confront humankind’s hunger for the food, fuel and fiber that drives deforestation.

Seventh session of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services stakeholder day (IPBES-7)

29 April - 4 May 2019, Paris, France

Seventh Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) conference: “Local action for the common good"

8 - 12 September 2014, San Jose, Costa Rica

Scientists reveal mystery of species coexistence in subtropical forests

Chinese scientists have discovered the mechanism regulating the coexistence of species in subtropical forests, providing a reference for ecosystem restoration in these areas.

SER 2013 World Conference on Ecological Restoration: "Reflections on the Past, Directions for the Future"

6 - 11 October 2013, Madison, United States of America

Rewilding sees jaguars return to Argentina’s wetlands

The largest predator in South America, the jaguar, has returned to the Iberá wetlands in Argentina 70 years after the species was driven to local extinction through hunting and habitat loss. Currently, only about 200 jaguars remain in Argentina.

Rewilding Argentina: lessons for the 2030 biodiversity targets

When Mariuá, a 1.5-year-old female jaguar, set foot in our breeding centre in Argentina in December 2018, we did not know that she would make history.

Rewilded Farmland Can Save Money − and the Earth

An international consortium of scientists has worked out − once again − how to conserve life on the planet and absorb dramatic quantities of the atmospheric carbon that is driving potentially calamitous climate change: go for rewilded farmland, fields of crops and livestock returned to prairie a ...

Restoring the Natural World

Europe has set ambitious policy goals to allow nature to recover and flourish, increasing the benefits to society of a healthy natural world. From protected areas and green and blue infrastructure to restoration, rewilding and using nature-based solutions to climate change, much needs to be done ...

Restoring the Earth: Botanic Gardens join forces to launch Ecological Restoration Alliance

Restoring fortune to the fields of Georgia

Sometimes referred to as ‘the bread basket of Georgia’, Dedoplistskaro’s fertile soils have provided a living for generations of farmers.

Restoring damaged land key to climate, biodiversity goals

Unsustainable farming is on track to increase the amount of severely degraded land by an area the size of South America by mid-century, a UN report warned Wednesday, as experts said restoration was a matter of "survival".

Restoring abandoned farms could help mitigate climate change: study

Researchers are calling upon policymakers to invest in the ecological restoration of abandoned farmlands — arguing that doing so could help mitigate the impacts of climate change.

Restoring Nature ‘The Test Of Our Generation’: UN General Assembly President

Stepping up global efforts to combat land degradation is the only way to safeguard food and water security, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ward against future threats to health and the environment, the UN General Assembly President told ambassadors meeting in New York on Monday.