By Eduardo Bata, Team leader and ranger, Tamaraw Conservation Program, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines I am Eduardo Bata, a 57-year-old resident of San Jose in Occidental Mindoro (the western half of the Philippines island of Mindoro). My relatives, friends and colleague...Read more
Biodiversity Finance
By Alejandra Blanco, former Director of the Environmental Fund, State of Jalisco, Mexico Biodiversity offers enormous value to the economy and society of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The state is one of the most populous and economically thriving states in Mexico, and one of the most biodiverse wit...Read more
With Marvin Zamora, community leader, and Omar Peralta, Municipal Environmental Management Unit of the Municipality of Taxisco, Guatemala ''I was born a fisherman. Our village culture is fishing. But we have seen a decline in fish population due to pollution and climate change.'' - Marvin Zamora Mar...Read more
By Masego Malokwane, PR officer from the Department of Wildlife & National Parks, Botswana Botswana teems with abundant wildlife, which draws flocks of tourists. With nearly 40 percent of our land devoted to national parks, biodiversity is a national treasure. Communities throughout the country rely...Read more
UNDP-BIOFIN is set to publish a step-by-step guideline to assess to which extent subsidies and government support are having harmful impacts on biodiversity and create action plans to rethink and redesign them.Read more