Ecosystem services

Training rats can save lives? In 1997, Belgian engineer Bart Weetjens founded APOPO, an NGO that trains African giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. APOPO is a social enterprise that, according to his founder...

The 4th UN Environment Assembly gathered in Nairobi from 11-15 March 2019. The United Nations Environment Assembly is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment. It addresses the critical environmental...

Hello, I want to found a World Cultural Association, E.R.M.A. (European Rural, World Associations), to create this blessed institution, the president serves as the secretary and a counselor. You want to be the founder, (a person...

Whether or not you are interested in conservation, you have heard of the woman who lived with chimps: Jane Goodall. It is therefore fitting that her newest documentary composed of the oldest footage is called ‘Jane’. Simple but...

“We need to push the EU and Member States to take a hard stance, not just against marine litter”, but to protect the ocean as a whole, said Emma Priestland from Seas at Risk, at a ‘Chasing Coral’ screening on October 4 th in...

The world’s biodiversity is being lost and nature’s contributions to people are being degraded, which undermines human wellbeing. The success of humanity’s efforts to reverse the current unsustainable use of our irreplaceable...

Adaptatium, I encourage collaboration! synergy with nature Here's our story: Fighting climate change and improving the ratio of human nature, working with biodiversity. Restocking agricultural areas (combating poverty): we wanted...

This grant aims at providing the Virunga National Park with the necessary resources for ensuring its proper management and development, the conservation of its exceptional biodiversity and the valuation of its ecosystem services...

Voici un excellent article paru récement dans le journal français Le Monde, résumant tout ce que vous devriez savoir sur notre petit bijou préféré: le Parc National des Virunga, en RDC. Cliquez sur le lien ci-dessous pour voir l...

Agricultural production in vast regions of South East Asia will be lost in the coming decades as a result of flooding of extensive lowland landscapes. The main drivers of peatland destruction are palm oil and pulp for paper...