The Secretariat of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) is pleased to inform you of a forthcoming funding opportunity within the Wildlife Without Borders programme of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service International Conservation Funds. Project…

The Darwin Initiative is a UK government grants scheme that helps to protect biodiversity and the natural environment through locally based projects worldwide. What we do The initiative funds projects that help countries rich in biodiversity but poor in financial resources to meet their objectives…

Two days after the opening plenary sitting of Parliament for the June 2014 ordinary session on June 11 2014, Senators were once more in a plenary sitting on Friday, June 13 during which three government bills were tabled for scrutiny and adoption. The plenary sitting was chaired by the Président of…

Biodiversity Information Specialists from developing Sub-Saharan African countries are invited to apply for travel awards to participate in the 2014 Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Annual Conference, to be held 27-31 October 2014 in Jönköping, Sweden. The travel awards are made possible by…

Resolving land and resource use conflicts in and around Terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas in the eastern and southern African region. Protected areas and biodiversity (terrestrial and marine) are under increasing pressure from other sectors such as agriculture, extractive industries and…

In notification 2014-074, the Executive Secretary requested Parties and partners to provide updated information on national and subnational red lists for compilation by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as a contribution to the effort to gauge progress toward the…

A new compendium providing the latest and best professional information needed for protected area practitioner capacity development was released this week in the margins of the 6th IUCN World Parks Congress. Titled Protected Area Governance and Management, the compendium provides information to…

Detail: Within the framework of the implementation of the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) Process of the Nagoya Protocol, a ceremony presided over by the Minister Delegate of Environment, Protection of Nature and Sustainable Development, took place on Thursday 2 nd of April 2015 in Yaoundé, to sign…

In paragraph 29 of decision XII/3, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity invites Parties, other Governments and relevant stakeholder organizations to evaluate the contribution of collective action to biodiversity conservation and resource mobilization, and to…

L'information sur la biodiversité pour le développement (IBD) est un nouveau projet de 3,9 millions d'euros, s'étalant sur plusieurs années, financé par l'Union européenne et mené par le SMIB/GBIF. L’IBD vise à augmenter la quantité d'information disponible ainsi que l’utilisation de cette…