Conservation Finance

With a two-day workshop commencing Monday 18 July in Thimphu, Bhutan begins a three-year journey to determine how best to finance the nation’s rich biodiversity conservation and climate action. With more than 50 percent of the total land area under the protected area system and a constitutional mand...Read more

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 t...Read more

Ramón J.P. Paje is the 19th Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines. In this interview he explains why biodiversity conservation matters so much for his country, and how the Biodiversity Finance Initiative is helping underpin his country's national strateg...Read more

From 25 - 27 February 2014, over 100 participants from the 19 countries participating in BIOFIN discussed progress and lessons learned during a 3-day workshop in Bratislava. Key issues on the agenda included an in-depth review on the BIOFIN methodology, and stocktacking of progress of both the BIOFI...Read more