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#1349652022-06-14
Researchers use whale photo archive to help protect important WA calving site
Researchers are combing through thousands of whale photos to help protect a calving site off Western Australia’s coast that was severely impacted by the whaling industry.
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#1320452021-12-03
UN biodiversity summit postponed over new Covid variant
The second part of UN biodiversity summit COP15, set to take place in Switzerland in January, has been postponed over the new coronavirus variant Omicron, organisers said on Thursday.
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#1249592020-03-31
UN gets new dates for biodiversity convention talks
Two meetings of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity’s permanent subsidiary bodies, previously scheduled for May 2020, have tentatively been rescheduled for August and September 2020, respectively.
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#1249612020-03-31
The ‘super year for biodiversity’: Undermined by a wildlife market?
This year’s meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is being curtailed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Ironically, the pandemic most likely first emerged from wildlife being traded in a live animal market in Wuhan, China, writes Janice Weatherley Singh.
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#1245542020-03-05
Revised Text for Global Biodiversity Framework Requested by June
Governments and others deliberated on the structure of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework and planned for further developing the draft text at their second of three negotiating meetings.
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#1244492020-03-02
Rich countries could be asked to pay billions to protect biodiversity
Wealthy nations could be asked to make significant financial contributions to biodiverse countries such as Brazil under proposals put forward during talks on a global agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity decline.
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#1244582020-03-02
How the Kunming conference can turn biodiversity failures around
If we want real biodiversity targets then we need to address problems with the existing negotiation draft, says Peng Kui.Coronavirus has forced many to look again at how humanity relates to animals and nature. In Kunming this October, a meeting of importance to all life on the planet will take p ...
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#1244612020-03-02
Governments agree to 'bend the curve for global biodiversity loss'
Lack of resources to prevent global biodiversity loss and funds for megadiverse countries emerged as some of the major challenges during the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) meeting in Rome. More than 600 delegates from 126 countries negotiated a "zero-draft" to prepare a framework to protect ...
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#1244342020-02-28
ASEAN joins second round of negotiations for new global biodiversity framework
The ASEAN Member States and the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) took part in the second round of negotiations over the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, which pushed through despite reports of an outbreak of COVID-19 in northern Italy.
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#1243782020-02-26
We’re coming up with a new set of targets to protect the natural world. Here’s how
Science and scientists are converging around the knowledge that our planet, with us in the driver’s seat, is moving into the Anthropocene. This is a new geological epoch in which humanity’s actions are changing the face of the earth and how planetary systems – such as global nitrogen and phospho ...