Island Conservation
The UN IPBES report demonstrates there are currently one million species at risk of extinction so it couldn’t be a more important time to focus on island restoration. The UN IPBES report laments a frightening statistic: there are one million species on Earth currently at risk of extinction in the coming decades. It has long […]
UN report finds one million species worldwide are at risk of extinction, but conservation efforts provide hope for island wildlife. A recent UN report, the IPBES Global Assessment, provides further evidence that we are currently on the verge of Earth’s sixth mass extinction and it is occurring at a more rapid rate than any other mass extinction in human […]
The United Nations negotiates the first-ever high seas conservation treaty to protect marine ecosystems and minimize risk to migrating seabirds including albatross. Only 5% of the world’s oceans are protecting my marine preserves. These reserves are almost all designed to protect near-shore marine environments in territorial waters. The open ocean, on the other hand, is […]
The United Nations embarks on a decade of ecosystem restoration that will fuel and accelerate current restoration projects throughout the world. Imagine, an entire decade dedicated to the restoration of precious ecosystem health and the resurgence of biodiversity. A project that builds upon ongoing restoration efforts like the Bonn Challenge; a lofty restoration initiative aiming to restore […]