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​The 24 page demonstration atlas, launched at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, shows that areas high in both...

​Reports of rapid growth in nature-based tourism and recreation add significant weight to the economic case for biodiversity conservation but seem to contradict widely voiced...

The ocean provides human societies with a wealth of valuable goods and services of significant economic, social and cultural importance. Threats from human activities and...

A new manual has been developed to support local communities and indigenous peoples in registering their ICCAs in these databases. It is aimed at indigenous peoples, local...

Although there is considerable work being undertaken to research this habitat at the national, regional and global level, there are still significant gaps in information,...

The Living Planet Index (LPI) is an indicator of change in global biodiversity based on change in population abundance of vertebrate species from all around the world....

The Living Planet Index was developed to measure the changing state of the world's biodiversity over time. It uses time-series data to calculate average rates of change in a...

This guidance takes the reader through steps that will support the integration of ecosystem considerations into holistic VIAs, describing key questions to be answered, outlining...

Biodiversity is an essential part of Uganda’s ‘natural capital stock’, underpinning the delivery of the ecosystem services that support economic activity and the wellbeing of...

Natural capital is a way of thinking about nature as a stock that provides a flow of benefits to people and the economy. It consists of natural capital assets such as water,...

The Capacity Development Assessment Tool's (CDAT's) purpose is to support the design and evaluation of capacity development activities in the field of biodiversity-related...

This analysis was conducted by UN Environment, the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, in response to United...

Between 2010 and 2016, more than USD 1.9 billion was committed to implement, monitor and enforce the conservation and sustainable management of tropical coral reefs and...

Human activity and technological advances, including offshore oil and gas mining and fishing, are increasingly affecting the ocean. 43% of the planet’s surface is ocean not...

Spanning more than a decade, a series of papers has been written and a number of workshops conducted exploring options for harmonizing and streamlining approaches to reporting...

The five biodiversity-related treaty secretariats and UNEP commissioned WCMC to undertake a Feasibility Study to identify opportunities for harmonising information management....

​The RESTORE+ project is a five-year partnership that aims at addressing Food-Land-Energy nexus related to restoration or utilization of degraded/marginal land in Indonesia and...

This geoportal has been specifically designed to allow users to explore and provide feedback on a set of initial global maps produced by the Nature Map Initiative. The Nature...

This e-learning course was produced under the Darwin Initiative-funded project ‘Integrating Natural Capital Accounting into Sustainable Development Decision Making in Uganda’,...

To track changes in biodiversity and progress towards environmental and sustainable development targets requires biodiversity indicators and databases. Often though, such...