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A vision of African development that prioritizes people and nature

The firstever continentwide gathering of African leaders citizens and interest groups with a focus on protected areas is taking place in Kigali Rwanda from 18 to 23 July The overarching objective of the IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress is to foster dialogue and empower the current and the next generation of leaders to realize an African future in which biodiversity is valued as an essential component of development with greater understanding of the role that healthy ecosystems play in delivering the services that underpin human welfare and livelihoods

IPBES Values Assessment: integrating indigenous and local knowledge with scientific knowledge leads to more just and sustainable social and ecological outcomes

Today the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES released its Methodological assessment on the Diverse Conceptualization of the Multiple Values of Nature and its Benefits in Bonn Germany This assessment has been prepared in partnership with UNESCO one of the four main institutional United Nations partners of IPBES along with FAO UNEP and UNDP

New assessment offers options to ensure sustainable use

Today the Intergovernmental SciencePolicy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services IPBES released its Thematic Assessment of the Sustainable Use of Wild Species in Bonn Germany This assessment has been prepared in partnership with UNESCO one of the four main institutional United Nations partners of IPBES along with UNEP FAO and UNDP

UNESCO designates 11 new biosphere reserves

UNESCO has approved the designation of 11 new biosphere reserves in 9 countries including three countries for the first time Chad Georgia and Zambia Two existing biosphere reserves in Spain have also been extended With the new designations the World Network of Biosphere Reserves totals 738 sites in 134 countries

UNESCO and Spain have renewed their commitment to the International Centre on Mediterranean Biosphere Reserves

UNESCO x Guerlain Women for Bees programme celebrates World Bee Day

Women for Bees is a stateoftheart female beekeeping entrepreneurship programme launched by UNESCO and Guerlain Implemented in UNESCO designated biosphere reserves around the world the programme promotes womens empowerment together with biodiversity conservation and sustainable use

UNESCO flying high at United Nations’ Science, Technology and Innovation Forum

The Seventh Annual MultiStakeholder Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals STI Forum is taking place from 5 to 6 May in New York in a hybrid format In addition to the main programme there have been a number of preevents and side events throughout the forum that have tackled issues ranging from disaster risk reduction to energysaving technologies such as Tiny Machine Learning and green hydrogen

Challenges and opportunities for science, technology and innovation in six African countries

Representatives of Congo Ghana Namibia Sierra Leone Tanzania and Zimbabwe reflected on their experiences from implementing and monitoring the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers RSSR at the fourth edition of the Africa Regional Science Technology and Innovation Forum in Kigali Rwanda on 1 March 2022

Artomossi, fighting against silting

The erosion of biodiversity and ecosystems has ecological but also social and economic consequences UNESCO within the framework of its Biosphere and Heritage of Lake Chad BIOPALT project is supporting the population of Artomossi in the ecological restoration of its wadi which is suffering from silting

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the Congo Basin to become a knowledge hub in climate and biodiversity

Yangambi Biosphere Reserve lies at the heart of the secondlargest tropical forest in the world after the Amazon Situated in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo the biosphere reserve stretches over a distance of 2 350 km2 an area larger than the size of Mauritius On 21 March UNESCO organized a meeting with its partners to finetune a project which aims to turn Yangambi Biosphere Reserve into a hub for climate and biodiversity monitoring over the next 18 months

UNESCO designates 8 new Global Geoparks

UNESCOs Executive Board has approved the designation of 8 new UNESCO Global Geoparks bringing the number of sites participating in the Global Geoparks Network to 177 in 46 countries Two new countries Luxembourg and Sweden this year join the Global Network with the designation of their first geoparks

Towards sustainable ecosystems within the Anglophone Caribbean region

Angela Camargo: exploring animal-plant interactions in Latin America