As humankind warms the planet and alters ecosystems, biodiversity is plummeting. These two global megatrends are well-quantified, and it becomes increasingly clear that both crises are...
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Microbial life represents the majority of Earth’s biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential, macro-scale processes...
Forests harbour a large proportion of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity, which continues to be lost at an alarming rate. Deforestation is the single most important driver of forest biodiversity...
Reduced river discharge and flow regulation are significant threats to freshwater biodiversity. An accurate representation of potential damage of water consumption on freshwater biodiversity is required to quantify...
This article emphasises the need for transformative governance to enable the transformative change necessary for achieving global sustainability goals, and reversing biodiversity loss. Defining transformative governance as integrative...
This State of Knowledge Review synthesises the available information on the inter-linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem stability, and epidemic infectious diseases such as the Ebola virus; and the connection between biodiversity...
The SoWPGR-2 identifies the significant achievements in conservation and use of plant genetic diversity during the past decade and highlights the critical gaps and emerging challenges in this area. It emphasises...
This is an assessment report by the FAO Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (2019).
This report presents the case for why we all must throw our weight behind a global restoration effort. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence (2021), it...
This B4Life report gives an overview of EU support to developing countries on biodiversity conservation: protecting threatened species and ecosystems and fighting the illegal wildlife trade while combating...