Habitat modification has reduced biodiversity and changed community structures in many regions, causing significant social and economic losses.

Diminished biodiversity, due to habitat encroachment, fragmentation and pesticide misuse, also leads farmers to rely on greenhouse gas generating chemical inputs to increase their yields.

Marine biodiversity

Biodiversity assessments

Biodiversity India lies within the Indomalaya ecozone and contains three biodiversity hotspots.

The Biodiversity Bargain

The lesson from Chernobyl is that if nature is to thrive, it must be given space from us. The primary causes behind declining global biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human activity.

The Price of Biodiversity

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

The Habitat Agenda and the UN Habitat Strategic Vision

C. Public goods and biodiversity

Effects on habitat Some fishing techniques also may cause habitat destruction.

Conservation and management of marine biodiversity

(i) Understanding, monitoring and conserving biodiversity.

UN Habitat initiated the strategy of Habitat programme managers, in collaboration with UNDP.

Housing versus Habitat

In areas beyond national jurisdiction, collective action is essential for effective conservation and management, not only to support species and habitat recovery in more heavily impacted zones, but also to maintain the biodiversity of the international commons for the benefit of all.

WoRMS has established formal agreements with several other biodiversity projects, including the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and the Encyclopedia of Life.

61 203. International Year of Biodiversity, 2010

2010 was the International Year of Biodiversity.

Mr. Merle Alexander (Canadian Indigenous Biodiversity Network)

1 Habitat Agenda, para.

Monitoring the Habitat Agenda

Cooperation with UN Habitat

1. Declares 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity

Biodiversity and climatic stability are global public goods.

Debt relief may help Madagascar protect its biodiversity.

(a) Habitat Agenda partners that were accredited to the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)

Through a set of structured dialogues among various Habitat Agenda partners, priority Habitat Agenda issues were discussed.

Its natural habitat is swamps.

Its natural habitat is swamps.

Programme (UN Habitat) progress report

Voluntary contributions to UN Habitat

B. UN Habitat global campaigns

The Habitat Agenda and youth

Jason Clay How big brands can help save biodiversity

Desertification contributes significantly to climate change and biodiversity loss.

The Impact of Industrial Longline Fishing on Marine Biodiversity

Lack of donor financial support for the Habitat programme managers is one of the challenges facing UN Habitat.

UNEP, through its biodiversity arm at the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), has produced a number of assessments focusing on species and ecosystems biodiversity including

The State Institute for Nature Protection was developing a national list of biodiversity indicators and setting up a national biodiversity monitoring programme to improve nature conservation.

Developing countries, which are often endowed with rich biodiversity, face the great challenge of combining poverty alleviation and economic growth with sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity.

Role of UN Habitat programme managers

Source UN Habitat Management Support Unit.

Nairobi UN Habitat and Earthscan Publications.