Rethinking financial sustainability for biodiversity
Biodiversity can be in the center of sustainable development, yet it requires systematic solutions and diverse mechanisms that enable retainment and reinvestment of funds into conservation. This new sourcebook deals with a range of additional financial instruments that may support planning and thinking about financing biodiversity, ecosystems and protected areas as investments in sustainable development. […]
World Environment Day 2020: Here’s what we can do for nature
We are marking June 5 at a time when most countries are struggling to overcome the blow that the COVID-19 disease and its consequences are delivering on healthcare systems, transportation, manufacturing and a wide range of services. On World Environment Day, people, organizations, institutions and companies are taking the opportunity to act or enhance their […]
Green bridges across roads and highways saving bears, lynxes, wolves
Infrastructure must be planned and adapted in a way to enable connectivity between areas inhabited by migrating animals. Roads and railways narrow their territories and cut their corridors, putting their population in danger. Green bridges or ecoducts for large mammals are the most effective solution to repair the damage. Such structures have been obligatory and […]
Towards greener agenda for Western Balkans
“Western Balkans hosts rich biodiversity, including many threatened, rare and endemic species, and relatively large unspoiled ecosystems. From nature we get food and water, energy and medicine, climate regulation support and disaster risk mitigation, among other benefits. Today, as we celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity, there is a need to recognize the value […]
Interdependence of human well-being and biodiversity
How much do we know about benefits that biodiversity provides us day-to-day? Or do we only think of it when facing extraordinary circumstances? Don’t we enjoy the recently rejuvenated rivers and seas, the fresh air, striving greenery and enhanced hearing of birds’ songs in urban silence? Biodiversity is the ingredient of all of our life […]
Our health depends on nature’s health – on May 22 world marks its biodiversity day
The slogan for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020 is “Our solutions are in nature” and it will be marked only online. The emphasis is on human health and how much it depends on biodiversity, with increasing evidence that imbalances in ecosystems increase the risk of diseases like the one caused by the coronavirus. […]
Over 1.2 million people in Europe request green post-COVID-19 recovery
The European Parliament passed a resolution urging the EU’s authorities to put citizens at the heart of the revival strategy after the devastation from the coronavirus. MEPs overwhelmingly insist the upcoming budget must be in line with the European Green Deal. Ahead of the vote, more than 1.2 million people signed an environmentalist organizations’ petition […]
Preventing illegal wildlife trade helps avoid zoonotic diseases
COVID-19 is a deadly zoonotic disease and there is an urgent need to reduce the risk of similar outbreaks. Preventing illegal wildlife trade is a good place to start. “Illegal wildlife trade contributes to habitat destruction, which removes necessary buffer zones between humans and wild fauna, making it more likely that animal pathogens come into […]