Conservation, Sustainable Use & Access and Benefit Sharing
The year 2007 may be remembered as the year in which a sea change took place in public and political awareness on climate change and renewed international commitment to tackle it. Today, as we celebrate World Meteorological Day, it is important to recognize that this level of awareness -of the impact of human activities on [...]
Water, essential to all life and to sustaining almost all aspects of human well-being, is being celebrated today under the theme of sanitation, in accordance with the International Year of Sanitation 2008. To mark the day, people around the world are encouraged to draw attention to the world’s sanitation challenge, as reflected in the world’s [...]
Contributed by Getachew Tesfaye (PhD Student, IBC)
Valuation of ecosystem goods and services has become an important issue in the fields of biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The values of natural resources have not been incorporated into the national economic accounting systems in many countries, and many of the ecosystem benefits of biodiversity resources are not [...]
Ethiopia has published the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). You can download the document below.
The list of Endemic plants of Ethiopia is produced and published here. You can download the document below.
