Thousands of delegates from around the world are descending on Colombia for a summit on halting humankind's rapacious ...

Global leaders are on their way to Cali, Colombia, for what is expected to be the biggest biodiversity COP yet. What issues ...

It is time to recognize that the Western conservation model has serious historical flaws and cannot achieve global targets ...

At the UN's COP15 summit on biodiversity in December 2022, countries reached an "historic" agreement to protect 30% of ...

Discussions on indigenous rights, nature’s DNA ownership, and financing biodiversity recovery are top of the agenda next week ...

At the Sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which will take place in Cali, Colombia, from October 21 to November 1, 2024, governments, international ...

Because forests are home to the most plant and animal species in any ecosystem, including 68% of mammal species, scientists ...

Nearly 200 nations face a deadline to report their nature conservation plans to the United Nations ahead of a two-week U.N.

Global destruction of nature has reached unprecedented extremes. As the United Nations two-week COP16 biodiversity summit ...

In 1992, 150 nations signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global agreement to support sustainable development by ...

Latin America and the Caribbean lead the conservation of the planet’s terrestrial biodiversity, with 5 million square ...

Coca leaf cultivation was 10 percent higher last year than in 2022, while cocaine production rose 53 percent from 1,738 tonnes to 2,600, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...