National and local governments need to step up efforts effectively implement the post-2020 global biodiversity framework of Convention on Biological Diversity halt reverse worsening trends. Drawing recent advances in interdisciplinary science, we propose a for improved implementation by national subnational governments. First, identification actions promotion ownership across stakeholders recog...

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Since the 1980s awareness for global biological diversity loss has been rising constantly. Theadoption of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity (CBD) at the Rio World Summit in 1992 initiated a large number of measures to protect global biodiversity. However, theobserved trend in biodiversity loss has not been reversed yet. WWF’s Living Planet Index(WWF et al. 2006) clearly show...

Biodiversity is a key to human well-being. However universally acknowledged, this reality is not appreciated as much as one might imagine or hope. Having achieved a high standing in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992, biodiversity appears to have gradually fallen from that position in the 20 years since. This is evidenced by the fact that most discussions and actions in relati...

In 2018, the Parties to Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a decision protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs). It contains definition of an OECM related scientific technical advice that has broadened scope governance authorities can be engaged recognised in global efforts. The voluntary guidance OECMs areas, also included decision, promotes use...

Forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...

Forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...

Current concerns with the sustainability of agroecosystems in different parts of the world have hightened the awareness for careful use of the natural resource base on which agriculture depends. For proper and efficient use of soils and plant/animal genetic material, knowledge of the role of climate is an essential precondition. Several elements of the chapters in Agenda 21, a global plan of ac...

Forests are biologically diverse systems, representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer a variety of habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of deforestation, fragmentation, climate change and other stressors. Biodiversity is the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or on t...