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Guam high school students to teach importances of coral reefs at training Saturday

Guam high school students will help educate third graders on the importance of coral reefs to our island as part of the 15th year of the Guardians of the Reef program. The young educators will teach elementary schoolers about the threats reefs face, and actions they can take to help preserve the ...

Guardian launches new series The Age of Extinction

The Guardian today launches an ambitious year-long project focusing on biodiversity and the variety of life on our planet. The Age of Extinction will report on our current catastrophic species loss and examine solutions to tackle the wildlife extinction crisis

Half of UK children can’t identify stinging nettles, study finds

Nearly half of children do not know what brambles, blackberries and bluebells look like

Halloween, with a seasonal nod to local biodiversity

What does biodiversity have to do with Halloween? First of all, our beloved tradition of carving Jack-o'-lanterns: pumpkins are pollinated by a specialized bee — the squash bee (Peponapis pruinosa). Without this little bee, there would be no pumpkins or squash.

Harvard Book Prize Essay Award 2020: Vincci Chan

The essay prompt was ‘Reflect on what it means to lead an ethical life that respects the world’s magnificent biodiversity. How should we view our everyday actions from what we eat to how we power the planet as being central to leading an ethical life over the next 50 to 100 years?’

Has Climate News Coverage Finally Turned a Corner?

Some good news, for a change, about climate change: When hundreds of newsrooms focus their attention on the climate crisis, all at the same time, the public conversation about the problem gets better: more prominent, more informative, more urgent.

High-level Panel on Global Assessment of Resources for implementing the Strategic Plan

International Finance Panel

Higher and Further Education Institutions across the globe declare Climate Emergency

New York, 10 July 2019 - Today, networks representing more than 7,000 higher and further education institutions from 6 continents announced that they are declaring a Climate Emergency, and agreed to undertake a three-point plan to address the crisis through their work with students.

Hope Zoo, Natural History Museum Team Up For World Wildlife Day

THE NATURAL History Museum of Jamaica (NHMJ), through its monthly ‘Afternoon with a Scientist’ programme, collaborated with the Hope Zoo in Kingston to stage its commemorative World Wildlife Day presentation to the students of East Street Junior Centre on Tuesday.

How Miss Environment is regreening her town in Kenya

Ahead of International Women’s Day, UN Women is celebrating people of every gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion and country, who are driving actions that will create the gender-equal world we all deserve. Meet one example in Kenya.

How To Motivate Your Self, And Others To Act On Climate Change, Biodiversity Or Anything Else - Tips From Psychology

This talk may help you if you are thinking about how to motivate both yourself and others, and also governments, to act on climate change, biodiversity loss or indeed anything. The way you might do it instinctively, to focus on all the negatives that need to be fixed, is actually not the best ap ...

How are street artists shaping our relationship with the planet?

Street art has come a long way from its 1980s beginnings, when it began as an urban subculture of artistic daredevils spray-painting their imagery on subway cars and building façades in the thick of the night. Now, it’s one of the most popular and high-valued forms of contemporary art, and one o ...

How do countries cover climate change? Depends how rich they are.

Deadly heat waves, violent downpours, wildfires that seem to get more intense every year — the climate crisis leaves no part of the globe untouched. But around the world, the media spins warming and its effects differently.

How many members can a giant river otter family have? Candid Animal Cam

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the world’s largest otter and largest member of the weasel family: the giant river otter.

How many people care about biodiversity and nature loss? Hundreds of millions and counting

The past couple of years have seen a wave of reports on Earth’s biodiversity and its dire state, finding that 1 million species are under threat of extinction and that populations of monitored animals have declined 68 percent since 1970. But how much are these scientific findings making it throu ...

How people came to believe that individual choices could save the Earth

It was the late 1980s, and the headlines warned of acid rain, air pollution, and contaminated water. So John Javna, then a writer best known for books found on the back of toilets, traveled from drought-stricken California to Washington, D.C., with his backpack, looking for practical advice on h ...

How the loss of biodiversity requires relevance and attention

With climate change now finally at the forefront of financial decision-making, it’s biodiversity that demands more attention from responsible investors, for all our sakes.

How to Talk Effectively about Climate Change

Our conversations have been stuck, but a new book lays out a number of ways to get them flowing productively

How to talk about climate change on social media

Extreme weather events, from hurricanes to snowstorms, often serve as focal points for discussions about global climate change. And many of those discussions take place on social media. But do social media serve as good platforms for climate change discussion? And do extreme weather events serve ...

How to talk about climate change with family and friends over the holidays

All Christmases tend to merge into one, but I remember the Christmas of 2007 rather well. I got my first job as a climate campaigner that summer and by the end of December had absorbed enough climate facts to fundamentally – and permanently – alter my view of the world.

How to teach your kids the importance of protecting our oceans

Children are the future and we must not only take steps ourselves to protect the environment and oceans but educate our children; the future custodians of our planet. As many parents are currently enjoying the excitement, trials and tribulations of home learning, extending this learning to much- ...

Huge knowledge gap over health of soil

A vital knowledge gap about England’s environment has been uncovered by soil campaigners. They have discovered that just 0.41% of the cash invested in environmental monitoring goes on examining the soil.

I am a sea turtle, says Dia Mirza on World Wildlife Day

Nagpur: It's World Wildlife Day today and one person who has always championed the cause of nature and wildlife protection is actor Dia Mirza.

IBD 2008: International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May 2008, Multiple Venues

ICCB 2021- Society for Conservation Biology's 20th International Congress for Conservation Biology: The future is now. Sustaining biodiversity for today and tomorrow"

12 - 16 December 2021, Kigali, Rwanda

ILO and IUCN sign an agreement to harness interdependence between jobs and nature

he International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding to raise awareness on the interdependence between jobs and nature.

If children are to live with the climate crisis, we must green the curriculum

In August 2018, the then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg started spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament calling for stronger action on climate change. It might sound perverse, a teacher supporting kids taking time off school, but spreading awareness of environmental issues is somethi ...

Imparting lessons in biodiversity, an abode for mangroves

The 7.5-km stretch of Anelappuzha in Koyilandi, which connects the Korapuzha with Akalappuzha, is a storehouse of biodiversity. Lined with mangroves on both banks, this stretch has been a key factor in Koyilandy municipality’s plans to improve its tourism potential.

Improving management capacity for effective protected areas management in the ACP area: the BIOPAMA Project

BIOPAMA (Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management) is a project financially supported with Intra-ACP (Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific countries) resources from the 10th European Development Fund (EDF). Targeting the long-term conservation of biodiversity in ACP (Africa, Caribbean and Pacif ...

In rural Nigeria, the magic of cinema builds support for ape conservation

It’s sunset in Bamba, a small farming community in Cross River state in southeast Nigeria. Louis Nkonyu, 46, caresses the touchpad of his laptop in search of a wildlife movie for the night. His face is lit with sweat and the whitish radiance from the projector screen.

India's forgotten grasslands

India's grasslands are amongst the most neglected landscapes although they are important both for wild floral and faunal biodiversity as well as for livestock and pastoral groups .This side event will host discussions and debates on the future of these grasslands where both wildlife experts and ...

Indigenous peoples and local communities often refer to this Earth as Pachamama or “Mother Earth.” The fate of Pachamama and of humans has been shaped over a history that has been intertwined.

Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness

11 - 12 December 2006, Montreal, Canada

Informal Advisory Committee on Communication, Education and Public Awareness (CEPA IAC)

28 - 29 January 2008, Bonn, Germany

Innovation at London Design Festival

I've ducked out of Design Week for some years, consciously opting out of an obsession with branding and gentrification. Perhaps I'd grown embittered by a dearth of affordable housing for locals.

Innovative Green Wave/Airbus Partnership Takes Flight.

Innovative Green Wave/Airbus Partnership takes Flight

Montreal, 16 July 2008 – With the aim of raising public awareness on the importance of biodiversity and to engage young people in the global biodiversity agenda, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Tom Enders, Airbus President and CEO, today s ...

Insects are disappearing from science textbooks—and that should bug you

Earth is creeping and crawling with bugs—up to 30 million species and 10 quintillion individual insects. Bugs outnumber all other species in the animal kingdom by orders of magnitude. So it would make sense that they have a starring role in science textbooks, teaching students essential lessons ...

Inspired by Nature, National Parks Photography Competition 2020

The UK National Parks and Campaign for National Parks are delighted to announce the winner, runner up and shortlisted entrants for our joint photography competition underscoring the importance of nature in our national parks.

Integral to the balance of nature, wildlife nurtures us with a sense of wonder and serves as a source of inspiration.

Internation Youth Day 2017: "Youth Building Peace"

12 August 2017, New York, United States of America

International Conference on Education for a Sustainable Future

10 - 11 September 2003, Prague

International Day for Biological Diversity

22 - 23 May 2011, Multiple Venues

International Day for Biological Diversity

22 - 23 May 2013, Multiple Venues

International Day for Biological Diversity

22 May 2022, Montreal, Canada

International Day for Biological Diversity 2002

22 May 2002, Montreal, Canada

International Day for Biological Diversity 2006

22 May 2006, Montreal, Canada

International Day for Biological Diversity 2007

22 May 2007, Montreal, Canada

International Day for Biological Diversity 2014

22 - 23 May 2014, Multiple venues

International Day for Biological Diversity 2015

22 - 23 May 2015, Multiple venues