Urgent action is needed to safeguard the biodiversity of the world’s forests amid alarming rates of deforestation and degradation, according to the latest edition of The State of the World’s Forests released on the International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May). The 188-page report, which summarizes a decade of studies on biodiversity, examines the contributions of forests and of the populations that use and manage them.
Jamison Ervin
Manager, Global Programme on Nature for Development, UNDP
27 March 2020
Launch of a new thematic issue
The following are suggestions for simple actions that almost anyone can do to protect biodiversity. If you have other suggestions, please send them to info@iefworld.org.
• Avoid using pesticides and other chemicals dangerous to living things
Biodiversity is in Crisis
Nature’s Dangerous Decline ‘Unprecedented’
Species Extinction Rates ‘Accelerating’
‘Transformative changes’ needed to restore and protect nature
Opposition from vested interests can be overcome for public good
1,000,000 species threatened with extinction
The headlines are frightening but true
