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These publications are the result of inter-agency and national government collaboration. They represents part of UNEP's contribution to evaluating the feasibility of...

In 2008, the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted scientific criteria for identifying ecologically or biologically significant marine areas in need of protection on the...

This report draws together scientific understanding of deep-water sponge grounds alongside the threats they face and ways in which they can be conserved. Beginning with a...

Seamounts, deep-sea corals and fisheries aims to raise the awareness of managers, decision makers and stakeholders about the distribution of deep-sea corals on seamounts and...

Feeding a rapidly expanding human population will require a large increase in the supply of agricultural products during the coming decades. This may lead to the transformation...

Advice on assessment of biodiversity impacts is required to support trade negotiations and reduce risks of unforeseen consequences for important biodiversity and those who...

The Global Coral Disease Database (GCDD) aims to collate information on the global distribution of coral diseases to contribute to the understanding of coral disease prevalence....

GLOBIO focuses on a single measure of the intactness of ecological communities: the average abundance of all species. As a policy tool, it is regularly applied in global,...

Monitoring butterflies is one of the oldest examples of citizen science. The success of Butterfly Monitoring Schemes (BMS’s) is due to many factors, not least that the...

The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its Aichi Biodiversity Targets provide a framework for action on biodiversity for this decade and beyond. In order to progress...

Shifts in species' distribution and abundance in response to climate change have been well documented, but the underpinning processes are still poorly understood. We present the...

This approach can be applied to any sector or system, and at any scale from local to global. Only by establishing the linkages between different types of indicators can we...

The GLOBIO3 model has been developed to assess human-induced changes in biodiversity, in the past, present, and future at regional and global scales. The model is built on...

The causes of biodiversity loss are complex, so it is easy for the ways conservationists classify them to be misinterpreted. We therefore congratulate Salafsky and colleagues...

We identified 100 scientific questions that, if answered, would have the greatest impact on conservation practice and policy. Representatives from 21 international...

In recent years, commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been widely promoted as an appropriate means of developing tropical forest resources (Lawrence 2003,...

The EUTR works to ensure that illegal timber does not enter the EU market, by laying out the obligations of a) operators that place timber on the EU market (Article 4, 6), b)...

​Biannual overviews of the checks performed by EU Member States and EEA Competent Authorities to enforce the implementation of the EU Timber Regulation, compiled on behalf of...

The UK National Ecosystem Assessment provided the first analysis of the UK’s natural environment in terms of the benefits it provides to society and our continuing economic...

​The UK National Ecosystem Assessment provided the first analysis of the UK’s natural environment in terms of the benefits it provides to society and our continuing economic...