More than 20% of Earth's plant species found only on islands and time is running out to save them
A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity ...
World Wildlife Fund20h
Why saving wild species is critical to our own survival
WWF report reveals how wild species are essential for human survival. Learn why biodiversity loss threatens our food, climate ...
Science Daily20h
Modern mass extinction in an Ecuadorean cloud forest found to be a mirage
An international team of botanists finds no proof of extinctions in Centinela, but abundant evidence that Centinela's flora lives on in the scattered remaining fragments of coastal Ecuador's forests.
Mongabay21h
Indigenous territories & peoples are key to achieving COP16’s 30×30 target (commentary)
It is time to recognize that the Western conservation model has serious historical flaws and cannot achieve global targets ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore22h
Countries under pressure to fork out for nature at UN conference
BOGOTA: Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious ...
COP16: What is biodiversity and how are we protecting it?
At the UN's COP15 summit on biodiversity in December 2022, countries reached an "historic" agreement to protect 30% of ...