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Mexico has had a long history of resilient agricultural systems and food cultures that reflect the country’s agrobiodiversity. With GEF funding, FAO and CONABIO are reviving traditional practices to support the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods and meet the population’s nutritional needs

The sad case of the Norfolk Island morepork shows we need a way to control or eradicate invasive rodents without killing native species. When pest rats and mice decimate populations of native species, pest control is a no-brainer. But what if baiting rats protects threatened songbirds, while poisoning critically endangered owls?

This is a question conservation managers are grappling with on tiny Norfolk Island, some 1,300 kilometres off the east coast of Australia. They’re not the only ones troubled by such conflicting priorities.

Rodents are implicated in the decline of at least 400 threatened species and 30% of bird, mammal and reptile extinctions worldwide. Unfortunately, the most effective rat baits can also kill birds of prey.

Our new research shows the critically endangered Norfolk Island morepork is eating even more rats and mice than previously thought. These birds of prey are being poisoned in the process. We clearly need a way to control or eradicate rodents without killing our native species.

The China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) and the San Diego Zoo in the United States recently signed a giant panda conservation agreement, with a pair of giant pandas selected for a 10-year international conservation cooperation project.

To protect the well-being of giant pandas in the U.S., experts from CWCA visited the San Diego Zoo in March for in-depth discussions and technical exchanges on panda care, living conditions and health requirements.

Targeted culling of crown-of-thorns starfish has resulted in parts of the Great Barrier Reef maintaining and even increasing coral cover, leading researchers to call for the programme to be dramatically scaled up

Neil Ward tells us about the role that genomics can play in conserving biodiversity and how innovative technologies such as HiFi sequencing are helping biodiversity projects.

But the Center for American Progress says states need to do more on conservation.

Proper biodiversity conservation requires long-term commitments to protect areas of land and water, as laid down in international guidelines.

The Nature Trust of BC is making its final push to purchase a parcel of land near Prince George.The Ferguson Lake Wetlands is a 129.2-hectare area of wetland, riparian forest, and mixed forest ecosystems.

The parcel is adjacent to the 31-hectare Ferguson Lake Conservation Area, which the Nature Trust already owns. .

“These wetland and riparian ecosystems are powerful carbon sinks that provide nature-based solutions to climate change,” said Nature Trust CEO Dr. Jasper Lament.

Wanjira has also been working with the county government and the national government in river clean-ups in an initiative dubbed Adopt-a-river, in collaboration with UNEP.

Kenya Forest Services and the community urged to support tree planting initiatives.

The current approach isn’t working. The government needs to align its efforts with the economic needs of local communities. Over the past two decades, Sumatra’s peatland forests have undergone a significant decline, losing approximately 3 million hectares at an annual deforestation rate averaging 150 thousand hectares. This loss can be attributed primarily to logging, forest conversion for commercial plantations, drainage for agriculture, and the utilization of fire for land clearing. Collectively, these factors have instigated peatland degradation, leading to recurrent fires, heightened carbon emissions, habitat deterioration, adverse health effects, and economic loss.