Biodiversité

Halting, then reversing the dangerous, ongoing loss of Earth's plant and animal diversity requires far more than an expanded global system of protected areas of land and seas, scientists warned today.

“Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades.” or “Our work reveals dramatic rates of decline that may lead to the extinction of 40% of the world's insect species over the next few decades.” These are verbatim conclusions of the recent paper by Sánchez-Bayoa and Wyckhuys (2019) in Biological Conservation. Because of fundamental methodological flaws, their conclusions are unsubstantiated. Like noted by The Guardian, the conclusions of the paper were set out in unusually forceful terms for a peer-reviewed scientific paper. The current case has already seen corrections and withdrawals in print and social media. We are concerned that such development is eroding the importance of the biodiversity crisis, making the work of conservationists harder, and undermining the credibility of conservation science.

Suite à l’appel à projets dédié à la lutte contre les micropolluants des eaux urbaines, 13 projets de recherche territorialisés ont été menés sur les micropolluants domestiques et issus de l’artisanat. Les principaux résultats et retours d'expérience sont rassemblés dans ce document destiné aux collectivités territoriales et aux acteurs de la gestion de l’eau.

Lancé en novembre 2019 par AgroParisTech et l'OFB, le projet de recherche-action « Les ressources de la prospective au service de la biodiversité » poursuit deux objectifs : alimenter les débats et réflexions sur la préservation de la biodiversité, et interagir avec des processus de décision, notamment le processus de révision de la Stratégie Nationale pour la Biodiversité (SNB).

Science and decision making can influence one another at several stages in the policy process. Scientists raise new issues for policy makers, policy needs shape research programs, scientific knowledge informs policy decisions, or research results are used to support or challenge established policies (Rudd 2011). Institutional arrangements that facilitate the integration of science and decision making include training and professional exchanges for individual scientists and conservation practitioners (Jenkins et al. 2012),...