Conservation, Sustainable Use & Access and Benefit Sharing
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault celebrates its first anniversary on 26 February. More than 320,000 seed species from all over the world are now safely stored in the Norwegian permafrost. To mark the anniversary, international researchers and geneticists are gathering on Svalbard for the seminar “Frozen Seeds in a Frozen Mountain – Feeding a Warming World”.
Using data collected from nearly 250,000 trees in the world’s tropical forests over the past 40 years, their study found that tropical forests across the world remove 4.8 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
Not all kinds of habitats are vulnerable to such invasions. Some are more likely to have a higher number of invasive species than others. Predicting which environments are more prone to invasive species would help devise mechanisms to take protective steps. Such a predictive map of invasives versus habitats has been created for Europe by researchers from Spain, the UK and the Czech Republic.
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.
