Achieving global conservation goals requires that realizations, agreements, and directives be customized to reach all levels. In the context of Convention on Biological Diversity, this means approaches conserving biological diversity must developed at local landscape level support national implementation Convention. The main objective paper was review basic role in biodiversity. To achieve goal...

Vulnerable, threatened, and degraded. This is the status of Earth’s biodiversity, upon which we all rely. Humanity demanding too much from nature while at same time deteriorating natural world. Unprecedented rates ecosystem degradation species decline set stage for anticipated twice delayed 15th Conference Parties to UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (COP-15), rescheduled later this y...

The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity, adopted under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, provides the basis for taking effective action to curb biodiversity loss across the planet by 2020-an urgent imperative. Yet, Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, which encompass 10% of the planet's surface, are excluded from assessments of progress against the Strategic Plan. The situation ...

1 Agriculture and Environment Program Area, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 3 International Affairs and Biodiversity Program, Peruvian Society for Environmental Law (SPDA), Lima, Peru, 4 Department of Economics, University of Puerto Rico-Rı́o Piedras, Puerto Rico, United States of Ame...