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Horizon Scanning: What are the forthcoming legislative issues of interest to ecologists and conservationists in 2020?
The annual CCI “horizon scan” has now been complete, with scientists and conservation professionals predicting mosquito-killing fungi and a kelp crisis could be among the trends affecting living things next year. The annual scan was led by CCI Council Member and Cambridge University conservation biologist William Sutherland. The group narrowed a list of 89 issues…
Threats to seabirds: A global assessment
We present the first objective quantitative assessment of the threats to all 359 species of seabirds, identify the main challenges facing them, and outline priority actions for their conservation. We applied the standardised Threats Classification Scheme developed for the IUCN Red List to objectively assess threats to each species and analysed the data according to…
Framing the Future for Biodiversity: UNEP-WCMC website
The Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 – and its associated 20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets – has been the largest ever intergovernmental plan for saving nature and nature’s benefits on land and sea. While continuing to focus on achieving Aichi targets, the international community will need to contribute to processes that will lead to adoption of…
CCI engagement in defining the post-2020 biodiversity agenda: synthesis of views, discussion paper and information document
An international expert meeting, ‘Framing the Future for Biodiversity: Effective use of knowledge in developing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework’, was convened between 10-12 April. This meeting was a key activity of the CCI Collaborative Fund project ‘CCI engagement in defining the post-2020 biodiversity agenda‘. Following the meeting those staff from UNEP-WCMC, IUCN, BirdLife and…
Framing the Future for Biodiversity 10 – 12 April 2018: Meeting Documentation
An international expert meeting, ‘Framing the Future for Biodiversity: Effective use of knowledge in developing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework’, was convened between 10-12 April. This meeting was a key activity of the CCI Collaborative Fund project ‘CCI engagement in defining the post-2020 biodiversity agenda’. Sixteen two-page discussion notes were prepared, one for each ‘evidence…