OceanHub Africa is launching the fourth cohort of its eight-month online incubation program to support up to ten of Africa’s most promising impact-for-profit startups focused on preserving and restoring the health of the ocean, while developing equitable and sustainable livelihoods. The accelerator is on a mission to support ocean-minded startups with the express aim of...Read More
This award, named after TWAS President Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim, is designed to honour women scientists in the least Developed African countries for their achievements in Biological Sciences. It carries a cash award of USD5,000 generously provided by Professor Abdool Karim. Deadline 15 May 2023 Partner Organizations – Eligible Nominees from Tanzania Angola Benin Burkina...Read More
The AFR100 Initiative seeks to show that restoration can create a prosperous, net-zero-emissions future for Africa. Therefore, the initiative will finance 100 non-profit community organizations and for-profit businesses that are restoring land by planting and growing trees in rural and urban landscapes. Early-stage for-profit businesses or non-profit organizations can apply for US$50 thousand to US$150...Read More
An integral part of nature-based solutions is landscape restoration, specifically Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR). A landscape approach to forest restoration would try to achieve objectives that support a wide range of stakeholders as well as social, ecological, and economic elements within the defined forest landscape. This is different from afforestation and reforestation activities, which has...Read More
In Rwanda, Nature Rwanda and BirdLife International are working with local communities to enhance climate resilience and community livelihoods. By Elie Sinayitutse Like many African countries, Rwanda has been impacted by the effects of climate change. Its rugged topography of mountainous areas and steep sided valleys has further exacerbated these effects. This has affected communities, with...Read More
In 2001, South African-born couple, Genevieve and Ian Giddy traveled to Costa Rica to climb Mount Chirripó, one of Central America’s highest peaks, protected within Chirripó National Park. Coming down from the 3,821-meter (12,536-foot) summit, the couple viewed a stark divide between the protected biodiverse high-altitude cloud forest and the deforested cattle pasture and farms...Read More
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) released the fourth beta version of its risk management and disclosure framework today. This is the final beta framework before the full release for market adoption slated for September 2023. “The TNFD is a market-led, science-based, government-backed initiative which aims to create a robust and global framework for organizations...Read More
In December 2022, the resumed fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted the Kunming-Montreal global biodiversity framework, including a monitoring framework. The present Guidelines for developing national strategies to use biodiversity monitoring help make biodiversity monitoring a practical tool for environmental policy. The guidelines offer advice on...Read More
It’s been 5 years since new laws for biodiversity conservation and native vegetation clearing were introduced in NSW. It is time to ask – are those laws working to protect biodiversity and appropriately regulate land clearing? In the last 5 years we have seen species added to our threatened lists; a significant increase in rural...Read More
