Biodiversité

Area-based conservation, including protected areas and OECMs, is the primary approach used to address biodiversity decline and now covers 8% of the world’s oceans and 17% of its lands. As it is set to diversify and expand under the 30x30 target to protect30% of the planet by 2030, we take stock of the approach, including its history in global policy and performance. We outline three priority directions to ensure area-based
conservation contributes to securing a sustainable and just future.

Il y a un fort consensus scientifique que la connectivité des systèmes naturels devrait être une priorité mondiale face aux changements climatiques et la crise de la perte de biodiversité. Le Groupe de spécialistes de la conservation de la connectivité annonce la publication de la version française des lignes directrices mondiales pour la conservation de la connectivité écologique de la nature.

Connectivity conservation is essential for managing healthy ecosystems, conserving biodiversity and adapting to climate change across all biomes and spatial scales. Well-connected ecosystems support a diversity of ecological functions such as migration, hydrology, nutrient cycling, pollination, seed dispersal, food security, climate resilience and disease resistance. These Guidelines are based on the best available science and practice for maintaining, enhancing and restoring ecological connectivity among and between protected areas, other effective areas based conservation measures (OECMs) and other intact ecosystems.

Du 4 au 11 septembre, plus de 30 intervenants issus du milieu scientifique, de collectivités ou d'associations présenteront leurs travaux, leurs réflexions et leurs perspectives autour de la thématique de la pollution lumineuse, de ses effets sur la biodiversité et sur l'homme, et des efforts mis en place ou à dessiner pour la maîtriser.

It is no secret that habitat destruction and fragmentation are the leading causes of biodiversity loss worldwide, and climate change is only making it worse. Species blinking out, shrinking populations and significant range contractions caused by human activities have negative impacts on biodiversity as well as ecosystem functions and services. Extinction events have happened before […]