Biodiversity is a precondition for sustained food security and livelihoods of people. Indeed, according to the Director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Land Resource Division Mr Aleki Sisifa, it is essential for the very existence of humankind....

Biodiversity law could stymie research Scientists who study the world’s biodiversity are facing a dilemma: proposals to regulate access to the riches of ecological hotspots may hamper the research needed to monitor these areas. The warning comes as signatories to...

Barely had the dust settled in the wake of Haiti’s worst earthquake in two centuries when international aid agencies began the rush to help. A priority was to feed the devastated Caribbean country’s population. Yet added to immediate catastrophes such...

Biodiversity loss a crisis forgotten January 20, 2010, 2:23pm Finally, the world’s forgotten crisis – biodiversity loss – will get full attention. The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. The goal of IYB...

It is ironic, bordering on the bizarre, that agriculture merits so little attention in the climate change agreement to be finalized at this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. There is a strong scientific consensus that altered growing conditions...