Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the living fabric of our planet. It underpins human wellbeing in the present and in the future, and its rapid decline threatens nature and people alike. It is vital to transform people’s roles, actions and relationships with biodiversity, to halt and reverse its decline.
UNESCO supports biodiversity
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Improving resilience and halting biodiversity loss in the Greater Amazon Basin
Measuring marine biodiversity, and the impacts of climate change
The world's largest marine biodiversity database, making science available for sustainable ocean management.
UNESCO welcomes new global biodiversity agreement
The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) adopted a landmark roadmap to 2030 which includes area-based targets such as designating 30% of the Earth’s land surface a protected area and restoring 30% if the planet’s degraded terrestrial, inland water, coastal and marine ecosystems by 2030. UNESCO will be contributing to implementation of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as the agreement is known, through its own networks of designated areas.
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