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The common calabash tree (Crescentia alata and Crescentia cujete) has a slender trunk and long branches replete with small green leaves and cannonball-like fruit. The “niij” (Llaveia axin) is a peanut-sized insect…

Cancun, December 10 - Imagine for a moment that a delegate from a small island state has to prepare a briefing for an international meeting on how certain species living along his state’s coastline are threatened…

9 December 2016: Andean ecosystems are under threat from unsustainable agricultural and rangeland management practices, fire, deforestation, and overexploitation of natural resources. To overcome this challenge,…

Coral reefs are an important source of income for Caribbean islands such as Grenada, as they provide viable and profitable tourism, recreation and fishing opportunities. More importantly they are vital for…

According to Ramsar Convention  between 1997 and 2011 the economic losses due to changes in tidal marshes and mangroves were in the region of US$ 7.2 trillion per year, while changes in swamps and floodplains…

​The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization came into effect in 2014 under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). It aims…

Cancún, 1 December 2016 - At a critical meeting opening tomorrow, the United Nations will call on decision makers from more than 190 countries to step up efforts to halt the loss of biodiversity and protect the…

Flower and horticulture businesses in Lake Naivasha region are changing the way they control pests.   Nairobi, 22 November 2016: Take a two-hour ride from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and you arrive at a lush-looking…

23 November 2016  ̶  The Marshlands of Mesopotamia in southern Iraq are a rare aquatic landscape in the desert, and a biodiversity hotspot for key migratory birds. “They are a unique ecosystem regionally and…

Nairobi, 21 October 2016: It is the largest tropical forest in the world, a land of myths and magic. The Amazon provides ecological services not only to the 33 million people who live there, but to the rest of the…