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One Health approach to prevent emergence of zoonotic pathogens

In light of the continuing threats to public health posed by the emergence of diseases and new COVID-19 variants, the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are looking to strengthen capacities in mainstreaming biodiversity into health frameworks and systems.

Open Letter to Global Leaders – A Healthy Planet for Healthy People

Call to Action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership*: Emerging from the Planetary Emergency and partnering between People and Nature. It is time to harness our fears, build hope and drive action to respond to the human health, economic, climate and biodiversity crisis with solutions that bui ...

Opportunities to provide inputs to the work of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Reference: SCBD/OES/DC/AC/88272 (2019-067)
To: CBD National Focal Points, Cartagena Protocol National Focal Points, ABS National Focal Points, indigenous peoples and local communities, relevant organizations

Parks are about promoting everyone's public health, not just boosting homeowners' property value

The COVID-19 pandemic put a lot of attention on the role of parks and green spaces —particularly in large cities. But, not all of this attention has been positive.

Paul R. Ehrlich: A pandemic, planetary reckoning, and a path forward

For more than half a century, scientists have been expressing concern over the deterioration of what I like to call the "epidemiological environment." That environment consists of the constellation of circumstances that influence patterns of disease and factors related to health.

Peer review of draft documents for the twenty-fourth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA 24)

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/LS/VA/88724 (2021-015)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities and relevant organizations, cc: Cartagena Protocol Focal Points, ABS Focal Points

Peer review of the State of Knowledge Review on the Interlinkages between Biodiversity and Human Health

Reference: SCBD/SAM/DC/CRm/83850 (2014-105)
To: CBD National Focal Points, SBSTTA Focal Points, relevant organizations, scientists, indigenous and local communities, and other relevant stakeholders

Plants hold key to developing future cancer treatments

Cancer care relies on complex therapies involving radioactive materials and sophisticated drugs and has come far from past remedies based on plants and herbs. However, scientists warn there is still a need to understand the botanical roots of tumour treatments – to maintain new sources of drugs ...

Preserving biodiversity to contain viral outbreaks

Biodiversity is a natural repository for more than half of the medicines that we develop. A large number of disease outbreaks are zoonotic, primarily caused by ecological damage. By changing human behavior, we can make a big difference in terms of handling future pandemics, emphasizes Dr. Carlos ...

Protecting the planet can prevent pandemics

With COVID-19 vaccines becoming more available, we can breathe a small sigh of relief -- through our masks! But we can't get complacent. This pandemic isn't over. And if we're not careful, others could be on the horizon.

Public hearing on link between biodiversity loss and pandemics such as COVID-19

Organized by the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the hearing will address the loss of biodiversity and the extent to which this increases the risk of pandemics due to change in land use, climate change and wildlife trade. The role that the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 20 ...

Regional Capacity-Building Workshop on Biodiversity and Health for the SEARO region

Reference: SCBD/SSSF/AS/CR/TM/88642 (2020-013)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Timor-Leste

Regional Capacity-building Workshop on Biodiversity and Health for the ASEAN Region

5 - 7 November 2018, Manila, Philippines

Regional Capacity-building Workshop on Biodiversity and Human Health for the European Region

23 - 25 October 2017, Helsinki, Finland

Regional Workshop on the Inter-Linkages between Human Health and Biodiversity in Africa

2 - 5 April 2013, Maputo, Mozambique

Regional Workshop on the Inter-Linkages between Human Health and Biodiversity in Africa, Maputo, Mozambique (2-5 April 2013)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/DC/CRm/81133 (2012-155)
To: CBD National Focal in Africa

Regional Workshop on the Inter-Linkages between Human Health and Biodiversity in the Americas

4 - 6 September 2012, Manaus, Brazil

Regional Workshop on the Inter-Linkages between Human Health and Biodiversity in the Americas, Manaus, Brazil (4-7 September 2012)

Reference: SCBD/STTM/DC/KC/CRm/80196 (2012-099)
To: CBD National Focal Points of the Latin American and Caribbean Group, and North America

Report on health and biodiversity demonstrates human health benefits from protecting biodiversity

Montreal/Kolkata, 13 February 2015 – A ground-breaking report on biodiversity and health, launched today at the 14th World Congress on Public Health, in Kolkata, India, shows the significant contribution of biodiversity and ecosystem services to better human health.

Research into chimp health benefits human, ecosystem well-being too

Chimpanzees’ health is not just an issue of concern for conservationists or animal rights activists.

Review of human health and the Rio Conventions launched at Rio +20

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22 June 2012 – Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), launched the report, Our Planet, Our Health, Our Future. Human Health and the Rio Conventions: Biological Diversity, Climate Change and Desertification, on 21 June at the Rio+20 conf ...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 22 June 2012 – Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), launched the report, Our Planet, Our Health, Our Future. Human Health and the Rio Conventions: Biological Diversity, Climate Change and Desertification, on 21 June at the Rio+20 conference.

Roundtable Conference on Water and Health

28 - 29 September 2004, Oslo, Norway

Saving biodiversity: why our mental and physical health depends on it

During the COVID-19 lockdowns, more of us are noticing the variety of animals, trees, and flowers in our back gardens or local park - and how being in contact with nature can influence our happiness.

Scientists propose global plan to save oceans for human health

An interdisciplinary European collaboration called the Seas Oceans and Public Health in Europe (SOPHIE) Project has put forward a global plan to save the oceans for the sake of human health.

Seagulls are indicators of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in environment

Gulls are one of the main wild birds that act as reservoirs of Campylobacter and Salmonella resistant to antibiotics, the two most relevant intestinal bacteria causing gastroenteritis in humans, according to an article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Second International Conference on Health and Biodiversity - COHAB 2007

24 - 28 September 2006, Galway, Ireland

Selective antibiotics following nature's example

With multi-resistant germs becoming more and more of a threat, we are in need of new antibiotics now more than ever.

Seychelles ranked first in Africa for ocean health

The Ocean Health Index (OHI) has ranked Seychelles first in Africa after the latest global assessment of ocean health. Globally the island nation came out 33rd amongst 220 countries and territories. Morocco and Egypt were ranked second and third on the continent.

Shout out for peace and quiet

We all suffer stress and anxiety to some degree and reported stress levels are generally increasing. The Mental Health Foundation recently found that three quarters of people in the UK had felt so stressed in the past year that they were overwhelmed or unable to cope.

Special virtual session for SBSTTA-24 and SBI-03 on biodiversity, One Health and COVID-19

15 - 16 December 2020, Online

Stakeholder Open Webinar – Sustainable Agriculture, Food Systems Transition and Nature: Linkages to the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework

23 March 2021, Online

Statement by Braulio F. De Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the 65th Session of the World Health Assembly, 21–26 May 2012, Geneva

Statement by Braulio F. de Souza Dias, CBD Executive Secretary, on the occasion of the 65th Session of the World Health Assembly, 21–26 May 2012, Geneva

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Health Day 7 April 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Health Day 7 April 2024

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Health Day, 7 April 2023

Statement by David Cooper, Acting Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of the World Health Day, 7 April 2023

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Acting Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity, on the occasion of World Health Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Health Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Health Day

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Health Day: "Building A Fairer, Healthier World"

Statement by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity on the occasion of World Health Day: "Building A Fairer, Healthier World"

Statement by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, on the Occasion of the General Debate, UNWTO General Assembly, Chengdu, China, 13 September 2017

Statement by the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer, on the Occasion of the General Debate, UNWTO General Assembly, Chengdu, China, 13 September 2017

Statement of the CBD Executive Secretary, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of the World Health Day, 7 April 2014

Statement of the CBD Executive Secretary, Braulio Ferreira de Souza Dias, on the occasion of the World Health Day, 7 April 2014

Study at zoos shows 42% of animals infected with 'Toxoplasma gondii'

Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite, which can be passed from animals to human beings (zoonosis). It is widely spread all over the world and, though it does not generally present symptoms, it is considered to be a major cause of reproductive disorders in ...

Study: Climate change is creating disease hotspots

Although COVID-19’s precise origins may always remain a mystery, the disease that has claimed more than 6 million lives, halted global economies, and caused immense suffering most likely came from a bat.