Photo stop déforestation
Si les résultats se font attendre, c’est que la Côte d’Ivoire part de loin. La décennie de forte croissance qu’a connue le pays entre 2010 et 2020 a été principalement tirée par les secteurs agricoles, énergétiques, miniers, ainsi que par la construction et le transport. Des activités qui ont permis…
Photo économie verte
Alphonse Kouakou Yao passe en revue les richesses souterraines de la Côte d’Ivoire. Manganèse, fer, nickel, bauxite, pétrole… L’élégant professeur vêtu d’un blaser de tweed châtaigne et d’une cravate rose est intarissable sur les gisements de son pays. Mais un minerai, surtout, retient son attention…
Minister for Agriculture, Dr. Mahendra Reddy says Fiji’s rich biodiversity and the ecosystems supporting it are now at risk. Dr. Reddy says according to recent research, 25% of bird species, 12% of mammals, 67% of amphibians and 11% of reptiles and plants are already threatened or endangered.
August 2019: In June 2019, the people of Navakavu (Fiji) met to celebrate the first year of implementation of the Navakavu Revitalisation Strategy 2018-2022 (NRS), a local development strategy aligned to the SDGs and the Government of Fiji’s Development Plan 2017-2021. The NRS, a first for the Vanua…
The rapid decline in biodiversity has linkages to the lack of action in safeguarding the survival and well-being of our biodiversity. This was the message shared by Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development, Waterways and Environment Hon. Dr. Mahendra Reddy during the International…
Grouper moon fish. Photo by Jim Hellem
The selling, exporting and consumption of beche-de-mer, undersized fish, kawakawa and donu (grouper) will stop from next year between June and September.

What is the surface area of Bioland in sq. km?

Surface area of Bioland was last measured in 2014 to 28750 sq. km, according to the World Bank. Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways.

The Decade coincides with and supports the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting held in Nagoya, Japan.

ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

Researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, The National Trust of Fiji and NatureFiji-MareqetiViti have discovered a new species of banded iguana The new species of lizard, Brachylophus gau, is one of only four living species of South Pacific iguana, and is…