biodiversity

World Environment Day 2026: A Global Call for Climate Action

World Environment Day 2026: A Global Call for Climate Action

On 5 June 2026, governments, institutions, businesses and civil society organisations worldwide will mark World Environment Day, one of the United Nations’ most important environmental awarene...

From Jaguars to Sharks: Protecting Wildlife Against Transnational Crime

From Jaguars to Sharks: Protecting Wildlife Against Transnational Crime

From Mexico to Argentina, through Central America and Brazil, wildlife trafficking has evolved from a marginal crime into a key component of transnational organized crime, closely linked to drug tra...

Beesline, a beauty brand committed to saving the bees

Beesline, a beauty brand committed to saving the bees

This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here Combining the use of ingredients derived from bees with a focus on protecting biodiversity and conserving pollinators: thi...

Biodiversity Day 2026, acting locally for global impact

Biodiversity Day 2026, acting locally for global impact

Biodiversity is increasingly recognised as one of the most strategic resources for the stability of ecosystems, economies and public health systems worldwide. Yet global biodiversity loss continues ...

Oxygen Conservation: investing in natural capital

Oxygen Conservation: investing in natural capital

A vast expanse of moorland stretching to the horizon, ponds teeming with life, and the cold waters of the Scottish sea: these are among the images that greet visitors to the Oxygen Conservation...

Hillary Rosner, reconnecting humanity and nature in a fractured world

Hillary Rosner, reconnecting humanity and nature in a fractured world

Journalistic coverage on the climate crisis and its environmental consequences has often overlooked the change in land use and its effects on wildlife movement. This is the focus of Roam: wild ...

What is beewashing?

What is beewashing?

Who doesn't remember the cartoon Maya the Honey Bee, first released in the 1970s, in which a curious little bee explores the world with her friend Will? Over the decades, through advertising, t...

Stopping the rise of the lakes in the Rift Valley

Stopping the rise of the lakes in the Rift Valley

Last year, around five thousand people were displaced by the rising water level of Lake Naivasha, 50 kilometres from Nairobi. Similarly happened on Lakes Nakuru and Lake Baringo, located further nor...

Massimo Labra: “Biodiversity is Italy's real productive asset”

Massimo Labra: “Biodiversity is Italy's real productive asset”

Biodiversity is not just about agriculture, fishing or forests. It affects every business, even ones that don't realise it. This is one of the clearest messages from the new Business and Biodiv...

IPBES 2026 Report: business-as-usual is eroding biodiversity, but companies can benefit from saving it

IPBES 2026 Report: business-as-usual is eroding biodiversity, but companies can benefit from saving it

When he first began working on these topics, Matt Jones liked to pose a challenge: name a business activity that does not, in some way, depend on biodiversity. “No one has ever managed to prov...

Ocean Economy, without reporting obligations, biodiversity and ecosystems are at risk

Ocean Economy, without reporting obligations, biodiversity and ecosystems are at risk

On 17 January, the High Seas Treaty (Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction, BBNJ) entered into force, aimed at protecting the ocean and managing maritime activities in international waters ...

Earth may be in crisis, but we can still choose our future: UNEP GEO-7

Earth may be in crisis, but we can still choose our future: UNEP GEO-7

In one of Africa's major cities, Nairobi, Kenya, the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) is being held in early December. In this context, UNEP has published the new&...

Navigating wetland conservation in challenging political climates

Navigating wetland conservation in challenging political climates

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Convention on Wetlands COP15, which concluded at the end July in Zimbabwe, left me with much f...

The vital role of soil diversity for sustainable agriculture

The vital role of soil diversity for sustainable agriculture

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The smell of wet earth is unmistakable and evokes something in all human beings. But why do we lik...

Biodiversity is not a given

Biodiversity is not a given

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano “What we need now is political courage, social commitment and the practical implementation o...

From the Pacific to Sicily: the relentless Mediterranean odyssey of the Asian seaweed

From the Pacific to Sicily: the relentless Mediterranean odyssey of the Asian seaweed

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Edoardo Piretto’s weathered hands have been scraping scales off fish since he was nine, in t...

Integrating Knowledge for the Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity

Integrating Knowledge for the Conservation of Amazonian Biodiversity

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Amazon is the biome of superlatives. As the world's largest tropical forest and often describe...

Third UN Ocean Conference: a missed opportunity to protect marine life

Third UN Ocean Conference: a missed opportunity to protect marine life

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Frome Nice - The Third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) concluded on Friday, the 13th of Ju...

3Bee, the Nature-tech Company that Surveys Biodiversity

3Bee, the Nature-tech Company that Surveys Biodiversity

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The buzzing of bees and bumblebees in a meadow on the outskirts of a large city; satellites in orb...

Biodiversity and Health: A Vital Alliance for Our Future

Biodiversity and Health: A Vital Alliance for Our Future

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Nature is fundamental to the health of people and communities. But when the word “biodiversi...