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Companies must prepare concrete action plans for saving biodiversity

In future, companies will have to submit a Biodiversity Action Plan for certification according to the UEBT standard. In cooperation with the Global Nature Fund, the Union for Ethical BioTrade has published a guideline that supports companies in developing and implementing measures for the sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity.

Biodiversity and Tourism in Central America and the Caribbean

For two years now, the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the Global Nature Fund have been working together with partners in Central America and the Caribbean to raise the awareness of tourism stakeholders for the protection of biodiversity.

On farmland, latecomers lose out

Wild bees in Europe are in trouble – more than 50% of local species are now classified as endangered. Recent findings by LMU researchers indicate that, in farming areas, species that emerge in late summer are most acutely threatened.