A recent scientific paper highlights biodiversity mainstreaming initiatives including BIOFIN

The journal ‘Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution’ recently published a paper titled ‘ Mainstreaming Biodiversity: Conservation for the Twenty-First Century'.

The paper led by Kent H. Redford, from Department of Environmental Studies, University of New England, USA discusses role of biodiversity and the need to mainstream it. Biodiversity mainstreaming acts as a bridge. It helps embed biodiversity into the policies and practices of public and private sectors. It ensures that all stakeholders give due consideration to biodiversity into their practices. Acting on the lines of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), numerous development agencies, national governments and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through its organisations and donors are spending billions of dollars to mainstream biodiversity. The paper presents different case studies of biodiversity mainstreaming including BIOFIN, which is now working in 30 countries to help mainstream biodiversity into national development and sectoral planning. The paper highlights the working in Costa Rica and South Africa. 

Redford KH, Huntley BJ, Roe D, Hammond T, Zimsky M, Lovejoy TE, da Fonseca GAB, Rodriguez CM and Cowling RM (2015) Mainstreaming Biodiversity: Conservation for the Twenty-First Century. Front. Ecol. Evol. 3:137. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00137

The original article is published here.