Biodiversity

Rangelands at the centre, communities at the margins: taking stock of COP17

Rangelands at the centre, communities at the margins: taking stock of COP17

Twelve days of negotiations, 196 Parties, and more than 110,000 people attending across the Blue Zone and Green Zone. In the end, COP17 on combating desertification, held in Ulaanbaatar, one of the ...

Startup: Wilder Insights Lab uses acoustic sensors and AI to measure biodiversity

Startup: Wilder Insights Lab uses acoustic sensors and AI to measure biodiversity

Wilder Insights Lab is a startup formed through the merger of two complementary ventures: Wilder Land, a company that transforms native plants and weeds into soft drinks, and Luistervink, a company ...

From Meat to Biomass: The Circular Future of Animal Husbandry

From Meat to Biomass: The Circular Future of Animal Husbandry

In the meat industry, as in other sectors, supply chain integration is a fundamental prerequisite for developing circular economy models. This is the path followed by Inalca, a subsidiary of Gruppo ...

Forest regeneration is underway on Isola dell’Ochetta after the 2023 storm

Forest regeneration is underway on Isola dell’Ochetta after the 2023 storm

In July 2023, powerful winds swept through the Ticino Park with a force unusual even for an ecosystem accustomed to floods, erosion and the natural rhythms of a river landscape. Gusts exceeding 100 ...

Let’s Hear Them Out! Interview with Eva Meijer

Let’s Hear Them Out! Interview with Eva Meijer

According to Aristotle, human beings are the only political species. Aristotle, however, lived 23 centuries ago. And despite the influence of his thinking on Western culture, the moral, rational and...

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 ...

Fishcon: Technology to Help Fish Pass Through Dams and Hydropower Plants

Fishcon: Technology to Help Fish Pass Through Dams and Hydropower Plants

Based in Linz, Austria, Fishcon has designed a new generation of passes for fish and aquatic organisms, called Fishcon Lock or 2-Chamber Organism Bypass. The technology is based on a patented hydrau...

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&...

Animal testing: Nearly 400,000 fish used in EU chemical tests

Animal testing: Nearly 400,000 fish used in EU chemical tests

A total of 382,000 fish have been used in completed, ongoing and pending tests required under the European REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) to ...

Startup, Collie: an App and a Collar to Manage Grazing Herds Remotely

Startup, Collie: an App and a Collar to Manage Grazing Herds Remotely

"Virtual fencing allows animals to be managed without direct human labour," Collie co-founder Chris Bloomfield tells Renewable Matter. "By training not only cattle, but animals in general to re...