Biodiversity provides ecosystem services, which are the basis for healthy ecosystems that
support life. These services could either be supporting, provisioning, cultural, or regulating …

There is a clear link between human developmental strides and biodiversity status on the
African continent. The link exists in the form of drivers, outlooks, emergent properties and …

Africa has rich and diverse biological and environmental resources, but both are vulnerable
to rising human population and the effects of climate change. Also, intense poverty and food …

This paper analyses key achievements, gaps, constraints and opportunities within South
Africa's biodiversity sector since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and some of the difficult trade …

Biodiversity loss is among the most urgent environmental concerns of our day, since it is a
crucial element of the Earth's backup systems, with direct impacts on human civilization. We …

The aim of this document is to outline approaches suitable for use by developing countries
to assess, with reference to socio-economic factors, the status and sustainability of national …

Throughout the world, biodiversity and nature's contributions to people are under threat, with
clear changes evident. Biodiversity and ecosystem services have particular value in Africa …

The Convention on Biological Diversity requires state parties to integrate the conservation
and sustainable use of biological diversity into relevant sectoral or cross-sectoral plans …

Biodiversity is threatened globally, but most especially in Africa due to overexploitation and
despite legislation in place to address concerns about natural resources and biodiversity …

The natural environment is composed of both living and nonliving resources and their
interaction dictates the condition of the environment. It provides food, shelter, economic …