CBD News Headlines

• Feeding the future
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Nearly one billion of the world's population go hungry, while two billion eat too much, using up the planet's precious resources.
• Bees threatened by indiscriminate use of pesticides
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  [SÃO PAULO] With an estimated 75 per cent of human food dependent on the action of pollinating insects, bees are vital for global food production. But their very existence is under threat as they face chronic decline around the world.
• 'Plastic recycling is a myth': what really happens to your rubbish?
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected - and then what?
• Mobile forests could help cities cope with climate change
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Cities across Europe are trialling schemes such as roof gardens and 'mobile forests' to embed more nature into urban areas in an effort to protect their citizens from climate change events like heatwaves, floods and droughts.
• Iceland holds funeral for first glacier lost to climate change
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Nation commemorates the once huge Okjokull glacier with plaque that warns action is needed to prevent climate change
• Pacific island leaders call for Australia to be ousted from regional forum over 'neocolonial' attitude
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  WELLINGTON - Influential Pacific island leaders have called for Australia to be ousted from the region's main regional grouping, criticizing Canberra's "neocolonial" attitudes and refusal to take urgent action on climate change.
• Human-induced global warming responsible for West Antarctic's melting ice
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Human-caused climate change has triggered wind shifts in Antarctica, according to a new study, driving accelerated melting across the continent's west coast.
• Five ways UK farmers are tackling climate change
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Farmers are on the front line of climate change - vulnerable to changes in temperature and rainfall, as well as increasingly frequent extreme weather events.
• Elephant protection debate to dominate conservation meeting
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Different approaches to protecting elephants are set to dominate the debate at a key conservation conference starting in Geneva today.
• 18th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today at this important gathering, the 18th Conference of the Parties (CoP) to CITES.
• World's nations gather to tackle wildlife extinction crisis
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Giraffes, sharks, glass frogs - and the woolly mammoth - may get boosted protection at summit
• Deforestation, climate crisis could crash Amazon tree diversity: study
  [released on: 16/08/2019]
  New research finds that when climate change and deforestation impacts are taken together, up to 58 percent of Amazon tree species richness could be lost by 2050, of which 49 percent would have some degree of risk for extinction.
• Tigers are vanishing outside protected areas in the northeast
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  Many forests outside protected areas in Northeast India have lost their tiger populations over the last century, though there is an overall increase in tiger numbers as per the latest census report.
• Panama Risks Becoming A Broken Link in an Intercontinental Wildlife Route
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  A survey of nine large mammals found fragmented habitats throughout the country, suggesting the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor is failing
• Invasive fish, snakes tracked with high-tech databases, maps, DNA
  [released on: 19/08/2019]
  DENVER, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Fish scientists on the hunt for non-native species are using an array of sophisticated techniques, including high-tech databases, storm maps and DNA samples to track destructive newcomers to U.S. waterways.