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Treating the forest like family

New programme aims to save threatened Indonesian forests

Mitigating human-wildlife conflict to save Indonesia’s Sumatran Tigers

In Cuba, ecosystem-based adaptation is a cost-effective way to preserve and restore natural habitats and protect coastal communities. Cuba works with community volunteers.

Habitat loss and fragmentation is a major threat to sloths. In Panama, a biodiverse country, a partner has rescued sloths for more than a decade.

Using South-South Cooperation to replicate nature-based solutions

The International Day of the Tropics celebrated each 29 June, marks the extraordinary diversity of the tropics while highlighting unique challenges and opportunities nations of the Tropics face. The Day provides an opportunity to take stock of progress across the tropics, to share tropical stories and expertise and to acknowledge the diversity and potential of the region. Some of the challenges the tropical region faces include climate change, deforestation, logging, urbanisation and demographic changes, such as hosting most of the world's people and two-thirds of its children by 2050.

The sustainable production of coffee, and indeed other crops, is more of a cultural rather than environmental commitment according to the manager of the largest coffee farm in the United States.

Ethiopia’s Kafa zone is known as the birthplace of wild Arabica coffee.

COVID-19 is a zoonotic disease, meaning that it jumps between animals and people, and is therefore closely connected to the lands both inhabit. Human and economic activity is eroding wild spaces, forests and other important ecosystems, bringing us closer to “reservoir hosts”—animals and plants that can harbour diseases. In this interview, Frank Turyatunga, Deputy Director of the United Nations Environment Programme () Africa Regional Office shares insights on how to better protect landscapes on the continent.

From countries taking action on policy issues to people raising their voices #ForNature, shows how World Environment Day was a major 2020 milestone featuring how biodiversity provides critical services for all of use.

How drought destroys lives and what we can do about it

A thick water pipe snakes its way from Sudan’s White Nile River for over two kilometres, pumping into a large reservoir in Al Jabalain locality, where thousands of saplings are growing. The tree nursery has a capacity to produce 200,000 saplings a year – the fruit of a partnership between the Sudan’s forestry body, the Forests National Corporation (FNC), and . Refugees and their hosts together plant one million trees in a massive reforestation drive in Sudan’s White Nile State.

Land degradation affects some 3.2 billion people. Poverty, political instability, deforestation, overgrazing and bad irrigation practices can all undermine the productivity of the land. The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is observed every year to promote public awareness of international efforts to combat this issue. This year’s theme, “” is focused on changing public attitudes towards the leading driver of desertification: humanity’s relentless production and consumption. Join the celebration through ’s  .

Nature is sending us a clear message. We are harming the natural world – to our own detriment. And now, a new coronavirus is raging, undermining health and livelihoods. To care for humanity, we MUST care for nature. We need our entire global community to change course.