By Mafela Simon, Secretary of Tshivhula Communal Property Association, South Africa We, the Tshivula people, are the direct descendants of the great Mapungubwe kingdom, founded more than 1,000 years ago. My ancestors hunted these lands, gathered the mopani worms, and picked wild berries. Nature, or...Read more
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By Mr. P. U. Ratnayake – Director, DT & CR, Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority Sri Lanka is a truly unique tourism experience. It is an island full of treasures, from the cool hill country in Nuwara Eliya and the wild jungles of Yala and Sinharaja, to the spectacular views in forest reserves su...Read more
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
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
In the face of a serious financial crisis for tourism-dependent natural treasures, BIOFIN developed and supported five crowdfunding campaigns in Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Philippines, and Thailand.Read more