Biodiversity

On July 26 2021, the Global Mangrove Alliance released their inaugural report, The State of the World’s Mangroves, a compilation of the most current information available on what we know about mangrove forests and what’s being done to reverse the downward trends impacting the forests and the ...

As the United Nations Decade on Biodiversity 2011–2020 comes to a close and countries prepare to adopt a post-2020 global biodiversity framework, this edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) examines the contributions of forests, and of the people who use and manage ...

Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) is a global research-for-development program connecting partners to find these solutions. Through the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and 12 other core partners, WLE ensures thriving ecosystems go hand-in-hand with agricultural development, food system resilience and human ...

Conservation Workshop Grants fund organizations to train communities, stakeholders, park guards, and others on local and regional conservation issues. These grants support training workshops with a strong hands-on learning component that will build capacity for people living in WWF priority places in select countries in ...

The Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund (RTCF) – Asia is soliciting proposals for the conservation of rhinoceroses and/or tigers throughout their ranges. Eligible applicants are small businesses, private institutions of higher education, for profit organizations other than small businesses, public and state controlled institutions of higher ...

Wildact Vietnam announce that we are joining force with the Saola Working Group to provide a small grant to support capacity building of women in Vietnam and Laos for biodiversity conservation and sustainability in the Annamite Mountains.Recognizing that in Indochina ‘forest’ (i.e., conservation) work is ...

Disasters have multiple impacts e.g., losses of lives, devastating impacts on infrastructure, damage to ecosystems and undermining development. On top of this, climate change is expected to aggravate existing disaster risks in many regions of the world. There is a need for increased awareness amongst ...

First Regional Workshop on the 1st Draft of the MRC’s Preliminary Guidelines for Wetland Inventory, WEFASAM and WBIA  will be held on January 4-5, 2018 at the Office of the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Vientiane, Lao PDR.The two-day workshop is to discuss ten-selected international/sensitive wetland sites ...

The Lower Mekong Public Policy Initiative (LMPPI) is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and jointly managed by Fulbright University Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Vietnam Program of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation in the ...

Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network (TERN) has publicly released their archive of bioacoustic sensor data — almost 45,000 files of acoustic data recorded at 21 monitoring sites around Australia. From their announcement: ‘Bioacoustic sensors do much more than simply capturing the beautiful, calming soundscapes of our natural environment. ...