Protected Areas

Roughly every two years, UNDP’s Nature for Development programme hosts the Equator Prize , an award recognizing outstanding local and indigenous community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. This year, the awardees are 22 groups that have developed...Read more

BIOFIN has launched an interactive Microsite of its flagship publication - the BIOFIN Workbook 2018. The Workbook Microsite allows readers and users to access the publication online and has easy access to chapters, diagrams and figures. Browse the Workbook Microsite hereRead more

Financial benefits worth more than USD6 million per year would be realised in Seychelles through the implementation of several finance solutions in the small Indian Ocean island nation – but a substantial financial gap remains to properly protect its biodiversity. Seychelles is already protecting 50...Read more

Quezon City, Philippines (13 April 2019) – To raise funds for the refurbishment of homes for confiscated illegally-traded and surrendered wildlife, BIOFIN Philippines together with the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Faber-Castell, Wildlife Rescue Center (WRC) of Biodiversity Management Bureau, Haribon Fo...Read more

By James Maiden and Onno van den Heuvel Nestled among the peaks of the Himalayas between China and India – Bhutan is a land of remote mountain valleys, rich in natural wonders – and with a population less than one million, one of the most sparsely populated countries in Asia. Contrary to the decline...Read more