| United Nations Environment Programme Biodiversity |
| Press Releases | ||
| UN Launches the Year of the Dolphin 2007 Campaign | ||
| Monaco/Bonn, 15 September - Threats for dolphins are on the rise. They face entanglement in fishing nets, marine pollution, prey depletion due to over-fishing, deliberate hunting and disturbance from noise. These are only some of the causes why they might soon be extinct in the world’s seas. [English] [Français] | ||
| Indigenous Knowledge Helps in Disaster Management | ||
| Nairobi, 9 August 2006 - To mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (9 August), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is announcing a unique programme that draws upon indigenous knowledge to help deal with natural disasters. [English] | ||
| Shrimp Fishermen Get a Taste for Environment-Friendly Trawling | ||
| Washington / Nairobi / Rome, 7 August 2006 - Shrimp lovers can tuck into their favourite food with a less guilty conscience courtesy of a pioneering project that is reducing the environmental damage from shrimp trawling. [English] [Español] | ||
| Climate Change Threat to Pacific Ocean Mangroves | ||
| Nairobi, Apia, Honolulu, 18 July 2006 - Action is needed to conserve mangroves in the Pacific amid concern that rising sea levels, linked with climate change, are set to drown large areas of these precious and economically important ecosystems. [English] [Français] | ||
| New UNEP Guide on Tourism and Deserts Launched on World Environment Day | ||
| Algeirs, 5 June 2006 - Drinking purified, as opposed to mineral water in plastic bottles, taking your old batteries back home, and using gas rather than firewood for cooking are some of the ways to lessen the environmental impact of the increasingly popular desert holiday. [English] [Français] | ||
| Future of World’s Deserts in Landmark UN Environment Report | ||
| Algiers/London/Nairobi/Rioja, 5 June 2006 - The world’s deserts are facing dramatic changes as a result of global climate change, high water demands, tourism and salt contamination of irrigated soils. [English] [Français] [Español ] [Arabic] | ||
| UNEP at the Commission on Sustainable Development | ||
| New York, 1 - 12 May 2006 - Meeting in its 14th session at UN Headquarters in New York, the Commission on Sustainable Development works toward identifying the barriers and constraints, as well as the lessons learned and best practices, in four largely interlinked areas: energy for sustainable development, industrial development, air pollution/atmosphere and climate change. [English] | ||
| Soil Biodiversity Key to Environmentally Friendly Agriculture | ||
| Curitiba/Nairobi, 22 March 2006 - Improved crop yields are being enjoyed by some developing world farmers who have turned to soil living bacteria and fungi rather than artificial fertilizers to boost harvests. [English] | ||
| Avian Flu May Prove Big Threat to Biological Diversity | ||
| Curitiba, 22 March 2006 - A far wider range of species including rare and endangered ones may be affected by highly virulent avian flu than has previously been supposed. [English] | ||
| Conserving Biological Diversity Becomes a Sacred Quest | ||
| Curitiba/Nairobi, 18 March 2006 - An international initiative to conserve ancient sacred sites is being launched in the belief that these culturally important locations may be a key to saving the world’s declining biodiversity. [English] [Français] | ||
| CMS on the Move to Conserve Biodiversity | ||
| The Eighth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species (COP8) takes place in Nairobi, Kenya from 16 to 25 November 2005 under the banner: On the move to 2010. [English] | ||
| African Lakes Atlas Launched at World Lakes Event | ||
| Nairobi, 31 October 2005 - The dramatic and, in some cases damaging environmental changes sweeping Africa’s lakes are brought into sharp focus in a new atlas. [English] [Français] | ||
| Algerian Takes Over the Helm of Top Biological Treaty | ||
| Nairobi/Montreal, 21 June 2005 - Ahmed Djoghlaf of Algeria has been appointed Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) headquartered in Montreal, Canada, it was announced today. [English] [Français] | ||
| Ecosystems and Human Well Being | ||
| 19 May 2005 - Message by Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to mark the UN International Day for Biological Diversity. [English] [Français] | ||
| Toepfer Calls for Strong Science and Effective Governance at Paris Biodiversity Conference | ||
| Paris/Nairobi, 26 January 2004 -In his statement at the opening of the Paris International Conference on Biodiversity, Science and Governance, UNEP Executive Director, Mr. Klaus Toepfer, called for “strong science and effective governance mechanisms” to back up the political target of 2010 as the date for a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity set by world leaders in the 2001 World Summit on Sustainable Development. [English] | ||
| Experts on Biodiversity meet in Malaysia | ||
| Paris/Nairobi, 26 January 2004 -In his statement at the opening of the Paris International Conference on Biodiversity, Science and Governance, UNEP Executive Director, Mr. Klaus Toepfer, called for “strong science and effective governance mechanisms” to back up the political target of 2010 as the date for a significant reduction in the rate of loss of biodiversity set by world leaders in the 2001 World Summit on Sustainable Development. [English] [Français] | ||
| Tourism to Earth's Most Threatened Areas Surges by over 100 Percent in Last Decade | ||
| Washington, DC/Durban, South Africa -Tourism has increased by more than 100 percent between 1990 and 2000 in the world’s Biodiversity hotspots, regions richest in species and facing extreme threats, according to a report released today by Conservation International (CI) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). [English] [Français] | ||
| International Effort to Unearth the Secrets of the Soils | ||
| London/Nairobi, 28 November 2002 - Scientists are to go below ground in seven tropical countries to search for the largest source of untapped life left on Earth. [English] [Français] | ||
| First-ever global guidelines adopted on genetic resources | ||
| The Hague/Nairobi, 19 April 2002 - Ministers leave The Hague today after charting a course for global action on biological diversity through the end of the decade. [English] | ||