Is India’s biodiversity getting exploited without benefits to communities?

India’s biodiversity authority could put minds at ease by increasing transparency. Otherwise, the future of biodiversity remains grim in …

Multilateral fund offers $5.33 billion over 4 years to help solve biodiversity woes

The amount offered by the Global Environment Facility is much less than the $60 billion suggested by one non-profit

UN: $200 billion increase in fund flow to developing countries for managing nature

It is one of many demands and targets that have been set through 2030 in the just-released official draft of a new Global Biodiversity Framework

Road to COP15 Montreal: Indigenous groups in South Africa benefit from rooibos tea industry; here is how

Rooibos comes loaded with antioxidants that can boost immunity, reduce risks of heart diseases, protect from viral infection and has anti-…

Sequence for a just future: Can safeguards for digital genomic data from biodiversity be ensured

Developing countries feel digital sequence information provides a loophole through which developed countries can circumvent the Convention …

Include wetland conservation in upcoming biodiversity, climate change negotiations: Experts

Experts suggested 5 wetland conservation targets for 2030 should be discussed during CoP15, CoP27

The world gets a note of caution on gene drives introduction

The Convention on Biological Diversity meeting wants countries to seek “free, prior and informed consent” before introducing new …

India set to get new biodiversity law; will it have teeth

The amendments have faced intense criticism as they favoured industry at cost of the communities that have preserved India’s biodiversity …

Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: ‘Implementation needs more resources’

All ASEAN countries face challenges in achieving the two sustainable development goals on biodiversity, leaders said in final session …

A Fair Deal?

DTE Senior Editor Latha Jishnu explains how the access and benefit sharing protocol on biodiversity is -- and isn't -- a fair deal for …

Over 100 countries sign Kunming Declaration on biodiversity conservation

It calls upon the parties to “mainstream” biodiversity protection in decision-making 

India commits to restore 13 million ha of degraded forest under Bonn Challenge

Bringing back degraded and deforested lands can help stabilise the climate while sustainably supporting global and local economies, say experts

Biodiversity framework: Ambitions running amok at negotiations ahead of CoP15

Negotiators have a tough task to clean up the text of global biodiversity framework in 6 days and ready it for December  

Rohana’s healer of maladies

Meet Jaganath Singh who has been treating farm animals with herbs and plants for the past 80 years

The great biodiversity vanishing trick

'CBD has lost its track'

Bolivia is one of the few countries that has consistently been opposing treating biodiversity as a commodity at the ongoing Conference of Parties …

The Smithsonian steps on the ants

Iconic museum files patent claim on fungi to control leafcutter ants—a well-known fact

World biodiversity day this year focuses on islands

In the last 500 years around 80 per cent of vertebrate extinctions have been on islands

World’s protected areas do not safeguard biodiversity

New study suggests nations will have to go for a paradigm shift they are serious about protecting wildlife

Traditional knowledge of fisher people may be included in the process of identifying marine biodiversity hot spots

Some countries noncommittal about identifying ecologically and biologically sensitive marine areas in high seas and territorial waters

US $50 million to protect biodiversity in India

Manmohan Singh says the challenge is to develop new models of inclusive conservation

Delegates attending biodiversity meet swing to Bollywood tunes

Negotiations progress smoothly